"From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines, going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me."
Walt Whitman (1819-92)
"When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break."
Akhenaton (d. c.1354 BC)
And now, the current weather, from some random person we pulled off the street:
Sunday, July 04, 2004
Introductions are in Order
Just wanted to highlight a new blog that I have added to the "Lines of Communication" blogroll: "and we still don't know who we are."
I have a weakness for blogs where the author doesn't mind dealing with the hard issues in their lives and takes the reader along for the trip. Wow, is this ever one of those!
This is the sort of diamond you can discover by looking at the "recently updated" section of Blogger. Of course, you will have to wade through some serious trash to get to one.
The blog is written by a young lady who is a reasonably new Christian and an even newer blogger. She is disarmingly candid and frank, and as far as I am concerned, that is what makes a good personal blog.
Give her a visit if you like, you won't regret a moment of it.
All Washed Up Magrate Mapfumo, a businesswoman from Harare, Zimbabwe, says she needed help after her car and millions of Zimbabwean dollars were stolen, so she enlisted the aid of musician Edna Chizema. Chizema suggested that enchanted mermaids would help her get revenge, so Mapfumo paid her Z$30 million (US$5,000) to fly four of them in from London, England, plus more to put them up in a luxury hotel and equip them with cell phones. Yet Chizema told her she “could not see the mermaids as only spirit mediums could do so,” Mapfumo said. She finally got suspicious when Chizema wanted to fly in a fifth, Arab, mermaid. She called the police, who charged Chizema with theft by false pretenses. (AP) ...Because everyone knows there are no Arab mermaids. Available in This is True: Book Collection Vol. 11
