Apr 21
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Because that’s where evil always screws up – it hurts people, and there are those who will never recover; it wounds us collectively in the short term; but it galvanizes the good in humanity. Evil almost always results in the strengthening of good.
– The Byronic Man
from:
The Good That Created The Boston Marathon Will Overpower The Horror That Raised Its Head Yesterday
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Apr 19
Today marks my two year blog anniversary.
I was just telling somebody yesterday that blogging has changed my life.
It hasn’t changed who I am.
But it has changed what I think about who I am, and what I’m doing with who I am.
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Blogging has changed what I think about who I can be.
I am living in the same house and driving the same car to the same job.
And yet my life is on a different trajectory than it was before.
The little circle that was my life two years ago is now the circumference of the world.
And the goals that I’ve set and the steps that I’ve taken to grow myself are a direct result of what has been happening in this space.
That’s a pretty cool thing.
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So I want to take a moment and say thank you.
Thank you so much for being here with me, for visiting me and chatting with me, for encouraging and supporting me.
To those of you who blog, thank you for all you put out there for the world to see.
Thank you for sharing of yourselves.
I started the Infinite Monkey posts because what you say matters.
Because it makes us think, feel, laugh and understand.
That’s a truly great thing.
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So I went to the dump yesterday, and in a fit of un-me-ness, I decided to clean out my car at the same time.
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I found:
– Five thousand three hundred and ninety-two napkins (Because yes, I have managed to kick my fast food habit, and now I simply love to cook.)
– a single black glove
– a towel
– seven VHS tapes I meant to take to Goodwill
– two three-foot-long wooden dowels that I got from who-knows-where and was saving for who-knows-what
– two tumblers with screw on tops and straws that can’t fall out
– a Virginia road atlas
– a recognition certificate for someone who doesn’t work for our company anymore
– the demolished frame for an obsolete recognition certificate
– a plastic fork
– a real fork
– one combination compass and magnifying glass
What are you and where did you come from?
– three jackets
– the instruction manual for my lawnmower. That I bought two summers ago.
– a bag of dirt (because you know, living in the country I can never have too much dirt)
– a pair of sneakers
– the squishy inserts I bought to make the sneakers more comfortable before I just broke down and bought new sneakers.
– two umbrellas
– one of Louis’ blankets
– a manila folder stuffed with mail I pulled out of my PO box last October
– a bottle of Windex (wtf?)
– some flower pots I was supposed to give to my sister. Last summer.
– a new 90 count tub of disinfecting wipes (Actually, I may need those right now.)
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Ironically, I was talking to a coworker next to her car last week, and I noticed how spotless it was. Not so much as a gum wrapper on the floor.
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All I could think was, “How can she stand to live that way?”
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I'm a writer and photographer, sometime poet and philosopher, who is figuring out who she was meant to be.
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