"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:
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
A Ghost Between Us
I haven't uploaded a personal video in eight months. This not only reveals what happened to cause that, but it tells what I have learned along the way.
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
