The Amazing Muse

For my dad.

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:25:14 GMT

Screwtape on Humility:

You must therefore conceal from the patient the true end of Humility. Let him think of it not as self-forgetfulness but as a certain kind of opinion (namely, a low opinion) of his own talents and character. Some talents, I gather, he really has. Fix in his mind the idea that humility consists in trying to believe those talents to be less valuable than he believes them to be. No doubt they are in fact less valuable than he believes, but that is not the point. The great thing is to make him value an opinion for some quality other than truth, thus introducing an element of dishonesty and make-believe into the heart of what otherwise threatens to become a virtue. By this method thousands of humans have been brought to thing that humility means pretty women trying to believe they are ugly and clever men trying to believe they are fools. And since what they are trying to believe may, in some cases, be manifest nonsense, they cannot succeed in believing it and we have the chance of keeping their minds endlessly revolving on themselves in an effort to achieve the impossible. To anticipate the Enemy's strategy, we must consider His aims. The Enemy wants to bring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the world, and know it to be the best, and rejoice in the fact, without being any more (or less) or otherwise glad at having done it than he would be if it had been done by another. The Enemy wants him, in the end, to be so free from any bias in his own favour that he can rejoice in his own talents as frankly and gratefully as in his neighbour's talents - or in a sunrise, an elephant, or a waterfall. He wants each man, in the long run, to be able to recognize all creatures (even himself) as glorious and excellent things. He wants to kill their animal self-love as soon as possible; but it is His long-term policy, I fear, to restore to them a new kind of self-love - a charity and gratitude for all selves, including their own when they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours. For we must never forget what is the most repellent and inexplicable trait in our Enemy; He really loves the hairless bipeds He has created and always gives back to them with His right hand whatever He has taken away with His left.

His whole effort, therefore, will be to get the man's mind off the subject of his own value altogether. He would rather the man thought himself a great architect or a great poet and then forget about it, than that he should spend much time and pains trying to think himself a bad one. Your efforts to instill either a vainglory or false modesty into the patient will therefore be met from the Enemy's side with the obvious reminder that a man is not usually called upon to have an opinion of his own talents at all, since he can very well go on improving then to the best of his ability without deciding on his own precise niche in the temple of Fame. You must try to exclude this reminder from the patient's consciousness at all costs. The Enemy will also try to render real in the patient's mind a doctrine which they all profess but find it difficult to bring home to their feelings - the doctrine that they did not create themselves, that their talents were given them, and that they might as well be proud of the colour of their hair. But always and by all methods of the Enemy's aim will be to get the patient's mind off such questions, and yours will be to fix it on them. Even of his sins, the Enemy does not want him to think too much; once they are repented, the sooner the man turns his attention outward, the better the Enemy is pleased.

Woah.

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 20:21:30 GMT

To decide what the best use of it is, you must ask what use the Enemy wants to make of it, and then do the opposite. Now it may surprise you to learn that in His efforts to get permanent possesion of a soul, He relies on the troughs more than the peaks; some of His special favourites have gone through longer and deeper troughs than anyone else. The reason is this. To us a human is primarily food; our aim is the absorbtion of its will into ours, the increase of our own area of selfhood at its expense. But the obedience which the Enemy demands of men is quite a different thing. One must face the fact that all the talk about His love for men, and His service being perfect freedom, is not (as one would gladly believe) mere propoganda, but an appalling truth. He really DOES want to fill the universe with a lot of little loathesome replicas of Himself - creatures whose life, on its miniature scale, will be qualitively like His own, not because He has absorbed them but because their wills freely conform to His. We want cattle who can finally become food; He wants servants who can finally beocme sons. We want to suck in; He wants to give out. We are empty and would be filled; He is full and flows over. Our war aim is a world in which Our Father Below has drawn all other beings into himself: the Enemy wants a world full of beings united to Him but still distinct.

The last sentence separates perfectly (in my mind) the difference between the liberal agenda and the conservative purpose.

Anti-Semetism?

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 19:26:33 GMT

Borat is many things: a sidesplitting triumph of slapstick and scatology, a runaway moneymaker and budding franchise, the worst thing to happen to Kazakhstan since the Mongol hordes, and, as columnist David Brooks astutely points out, a supreme display of elite snobbery reveling in the humiliation of the hoaxed hillbilly.

But it is one thing more, something Brooks alluded to in passing but which requires at least one elaboration: an unintentionally revealing demonstration of the unfortunate attitude of many liberal Jews toward working-class American Christians, especially evangelicals.

You know the shtick. Borat goes around America making anti-Semitic remarks in order to elicit a nodding anti-Semitic response. And with enough liquor and cajoling, he succeeds. In the most notorious such scene (on Da Ali G Show where the character was born), Borat sings “Throw the Jew Down the Well” in an Arizona bar as the local rubes join in.

Sacha Baron Cohen, the creator of Borat, revealed his purpose for doing that in a rare out-of-character interview he granted Rolling Stone in part to counter charges that he was promoting anti-Semitism. On the face of it, this would be odd, given that Cohen is himself a Sabbath-observing Jew. His defense is that he is using Borat’s anti-Semitism as a “tool” to expose it in others. And that his Arizona bar stunt revealed, if not anti-Semitism, then “indifference” to anti-Semitism. And that, he maintains, was the path to the Holocaust.

Whoaaaa. Does he really believe such rubbish? Can a man that smart (Cambridge, investment banker and now brilliant filmmaker) really believe that indifference to anti-Semitism and the road to the Holocaust are to be found in a country and western bar in Tucson?

Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world.

With anti-Semitism re-emerging in Europe and rampant in the Islamic world; with Iran acquiring the ultimate weapon of genocide and proclaiming its intention to wipe out the world’s largest Jewish community (Israel); with America and, in particular, its Christian evangelicals the only remaining Gentile constituency anywhere willing to defend that besieged Jewish outpost — is the American heartland really the locus of anti-Semitism? Is this the one place to go to find it?

In Venezuela, Hugo Chavez says that the “descendents of the same ones that crucified Christ” have “taken possession of all the wealth in the world.” Just this month, Tehran hosted an international festival of Holocaust cartoons featuring enough hooked noses and horns to give Goebbels a posthumous smile. Throughout the Islamic world, newspapers and television, schoolbooks and sermons are filled with the most vile anti-Semitism.

Baron Cohen could easily have found what he seeks closer to home. He is, after all, from Europe where synagogues are torched and cemeteries desecrated in a revival of anti-Semitism — not “indifference” to but active — unseen since the Holocaust. Where a Jew is singled out for torture and death by French-African thugs. Where a leading Norwegian intellectual — et tu, Norway? — mocks “God’s Chosen People” (“We laugh at this people’s capriciousness and weep at its misdeeds”) and calls for the destruction of Israel, the “state founded ... on the ruins of an archaic national and warlike religion.”

Yet amid this gathering darkness, an alarming number of liberal Jews are seized with the notion that the real threat lurks deep in the hearts of American Protestants, most specifically Southern evangelicals. Some fear that their children are going to be converted; others, that below the surface lies a pogrom waiting to happen; still others, that the evangelicals will take power in Washington and enact their own sharia law.

This is all quite crazy. America is the most welcoming, religiously tolerant, philo-Semitic country in the world. No nation since Cyrus the Great’s Persia has done more for the Jews. And its reward is to be exposed as latently anti-Semitic by an itinerant Jew looking for laughs and, he solemnly assures us, for the path to the Holocaust?

Look. Harry Truman used to tell derisive Jewish jokes. Richard Nixon said nasty things about Jews in government and elsewhere. Who cares? Truman and Nixon were the two greatest friends of the Jews in the entire postwar period: Truman secured them a refuge in the state of Israel and Nixon saved it from extinction during the Yom Kippur War.

It is very hard to be a Jew today, particularly in Baron Cohen’s Europe, where Jew-baiting is once again becoming acceptable. But it is a sign of the disorientation of a distressed and confused people that we should find it so difficult to distinguish our friends from our enemies.

Charles Krauthammer

(c) 2006, The Washington Post Writers Group

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MGJiYzJmY2U3MmNhMDNmNzZmNDZjZmNmOTI2ZDcxMWY

the five people you meet in heaven

Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:38:29 GMT

"All parents damage their children. It can not be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces beyond repair." - Mitch Albom

White As Snow

Wed, 22 Nov 2006 16:56:14 GMT

"Satan seeks out sins wherewith to accuse us, our enemies seek them that they may lay them to our charge, and our own conscience seeks them even with a morbid eagerness. But when the Lord applies the precious blood of Jesus, we fear no form of search, for "there shall be none"; "they shall not be found." The Lord hath caused the sins of His people to cease to be: He hath finished transgression and made an end of sin. The sacrifice of Jesus has cast our sins into the depths of the sea. This makes us dance for joy."

Ref: Jeremiah 50:20

Wah Wah Wah.

Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:55:03 GMT

This news article is intresting. It pisses me off actually that these Muslims don't freaking understand the concern of Americans. Give me a break, I kept saying over and over again reading it. If Muslims don't understand the discrimination against them, they might as well go home and live in the midst of the people who bash us day in and day out like the vermin they think we are. Get the hell out of my country if you can't understand the concern, damn!

Am I too harsh?

A Christmas Song

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:25:50 GMT

She was his girl; he was her boyfriend
She'd be his wife and make him her husband
A surprise on the way, any day, any day
One healthy little giggling dribbling baby boy
The wise men came, three made their way
To shower him with love
While he lay in the hay
Shower him with love love love
Love love love
Love love was all around

Not very much of his childhood was known
Kept his mother Mary worried
Always out on his own
He met another Mary who for a reasonable fee,
less than reputable was known to be.

His heart full of love love love
Love love love
Love love was all around

When Jesus Christ was nailed to his tree
Said "oh, Daddy-o, I can see how it all soon will be
I came to shed a little light on this darkening scene
Instead I fear I've spilled the blood of my children all around"

The blood of my children all around
The blood of my children's all around

So I'm told, so the story goes
The people he knew were
Less than golden hearted
Gamblers and Robbers
Drinkers and Jokers, all soul searchers
Like you and me
Like you and me

Rumors insisted he soon would be
For his deviations
Taken into custody
By the authorities less informed than he.
Drinkers and Jokers all soul searchers
Searching for love love love
Love love love
Love love was all around

Preparations were made
For his celebration day
He said "eat this bread and think of it as me
Drink this wine and dream it will be
The blood of our children all around
The blood of our children's all around
The blood of our children all around

Father up above, why in all this hatred do you fill
Me up with love, love, love
Love love love
Love love was all around
Father up above, why in all this hatred do you fill
Me up with love, fill me love love love
Love love love
all you need is love
you can't buy me love
Love love love
Love love
And the blood of our children's all around

One for the other side!

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:31:35 GMT

So this started on myspace where I found a list of "How To Be A Good Democrat". And although some of the statements are extreme, they make some good points. You can view the list and discussion of the list here, as discussed with a most trusted conservative friend.

And so this morning, I found a list from the other side about "How To Be A Good Republican". Interesting...

*Jesus loves you, and shares your hatred of homosexuals and Hillary
Clinton.

*Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Bush's
daddy made war on him, a good guy when Cheney then did business with
him, and a bad guy when Bush needed a "we can't find bin Laden"
diversion.

*Trade with Cuba is wrong because the country is Communist, but trade
with China and Vietnam is vital to a spirit of international harmony.

*The United States should get out of the United Nations, and our
highest national priority is enforcing UN resolutions against Iraq.

*A woman cannot be trusted with decisions about her own body, but
multi-national corporations can make decisions affecting all mankind
without regulation.

*The best way to improve military morale is to praise the troops in
speeches, while slashing veterans' benefits and combat pay.

*If condoms are kept out of schools, adolescents won't have sex.

*A good way to fight terrorism is to belittle our long-time allies,
then demand their cooperation and money.

*Providing health care to all Iraqis is sound policy, but providing
health care to all Americans is socialism. HMOs and insurance
companies have the best interests of the public at heart.

*Global warming and tobacco's links to cancer are junk science, but
creationism should be taught in schools.

*A president lying about an extramarital affair is an impeachable
offense, but a president lying to enlist support for a war in which
thousands die is solid defense policy.

*Government should limit itself to the powers named in the
Constitution, which include banning gay marriages and censoring the
Internet.

*The public has a right to know about Hillary's cattle trades, but
George Bush's driving record is none of our business.

*Being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime, unless you're a
conservative radio host. Then it's an illness and you need our prayers
for your recovery.

*Support of "Executive Privilege" only for every Republican ever born
who will be born or who might be born (in perpetuity.)

*What Bill Clinton did in the 1960s is of vital national interest, but
what G.W. Bush did in the '80s is irrelevant.

*Support the hunters who shoot their friends and blame the victims for
wearing orange vests similar to those worn by the quail.

*I mean, think about it. Other than the war in Iraq, the Katrina
disaster, the deficit, the CIA leak, torture, stopping stem cell
research, homeland security, global warming and undercutting science,
we've yet to really feel the negative effects of the Bush
administration." -- Bill Moyers

Exposed: The Extremist Agenda

Sun, 19 Nov 2006 02:30:18 GMT

This is 40 minutes long. If you get the time, please watch it; it is crucial.

I watch news & study my spiritual path in a very agnostic way - by this I mean that I try to look at whatever it is I am watching/reading/studying as if I do not agree and need to be convinced, not convinced as a weak mind, but I need to know from the inside out that the source of whatever information I am taking in is REAL, is...Truth. And that line between what seems right and what IS right is so increadibly fine and so tragically missed way way too much.

I think this country is starved for truth - there is very very little of it that goes around now. Art is beautiful, but truth is essential. And in this new world order, truth is being demonized and the *replica* of truth that actually destroys (spiritually, physically, mentally & emotionally) is being promoted as the *right* way - the popular view...it's is terriying to be Awake and realize what is going on in this world because it seems like humanity is quickly losing themselves to foolery of the Enemy, as far fetched as that sounds.

I am not a fan of pushing my opinions on everyone around me - I believe very much in diversity. But that also has been perverted in this culture. I am shocked at what is going on today - and what's so crazy is that anyone who pays attention is shocked - to a point that it takes strength and courage not to feel fear at the realization of it all. And people on both sides that pay attention are shocked - they think we are demons who only want power and we think they are totally fooled, living in a dream world.

Who is right? We will see. Differing opinion is one thing, it's healthy. But this world is quickly becoming deadly and if we fool ourselves into thinking this is not so, you will be the first dead or the least prepared. It does not maatter who is right and who is wrong, what will happen will happen. My prayer is that whom ever needs to see the Truth, does. Fast.

You.Can.Only.Type.One.Word.

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 18:43:49 GMT

No.
Explanations.

1. Yourself:
Ineffable.

2. Your boyfriend/girlfriend (spouse):
Unaware.

3. Your hair:
Unfavored.

4. Your mother:
Socialite.

5. Your Father:
Goofy.

6. Your Favorite Item:
Rings.

7. Your dream last night:
Strange.

8. Your Favorite drink:
Tea.

9. Your Dream Car:
Acura.

10. The room you are in:
Living.

11. Your Ex:
Precious.

12. Your fear:
Misunderstood.

13. What you want to be in 10 years?
Steady.

14. Who you hung out with last night?
Myself.

15. What You're Not?
Precise.

16. Muffins:
Apple.

17. One of Your Wish List Items:
Laptop.

18. Time:
Provides.

19. The Last Thing You Did:
Ate.

20. What You Are Wearing:
Sweats.

21. Your Favorite Weather:
Autumn.

22. Your Favorite Book:
Steinbeck's.

23. The Last Thing You Ate:
Tuna.

24. Your Life:
Tumultuous.

25. Your Mood:
Unpredictable.

26. Your best friend:
Myself.

27. What are you thinking about right now?
Consumption.

28. Your car:
Peice.

29. What are you doing at the moment?
This.

30. Your summer:
Unexpected.

31. Your relationship status:
Undecided.

32. What is on your TV?
E.

33. What is the weather like?
Refreshing.

34. When is the last time you laughed?
Earlier.

the mean turtle

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 20:53:43 GMT

I really get annoyed with people pleasers that try to relate to everyone and sympathize with everything, acting as if they do things when they actually do not. Come on, no person in the world commits every sin all the time, so stop acting like that - it feels like a form of know-it-allness in disguise.

And they will furrow their brows..

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 23:54:06 GMT

"When you come to the edge of all the light you have and
are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown,
faith is knowing one of two things will happen...
There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly."
- Patrick Overton

Spurgeon

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 13:28:13 GMT

The life of faith is represented as receiving—an act which implies the very opposite of anything like merit. It is simply the acceptance of a gift. As the earth drinks in the rain, as the sea receives the streams, as night accepts light from the stars, so we, giving nothing, partake freely of the grace of God. The saints are not, by nature, wells, or streams, they are but cisterns into which the living water flows; they are empty vessels into which God pours His salvation. The idea of receiving implies a sense of realization, making the matter a reality. One cannot very well receive a shadow; we receive that which is substantial: so is it in the life of faith, Christ becomes real to us. While we are without faith, Jesus is a mere name to us—a person who lived a long while ago, so long ago that His life is only a history to us now! By an act of faith Jesus becomes a real person in the consciousness of our heart. But receiving also means grasping or getting possession of. The thing which I receive becomes my own: I appropriate to myself that which is given. When I receive Jesus, He becomes my Saviour, so mine that neither life nor death shall be able to rob me of Him. All this is to receive Christ—to take Him as God's free gift; to realize Him in my heart, and to appropriate Him as mine.
Salvation may be described as the blind receiving sight, the deaf receiving hearing, the dead receiving life; but we have not only received these blessings, we have received CHRIST JESUS Himself. It is true that He gave us life from the dead. He gave us pardon of sin; He gave us imputed righteousness. These are all precious things, but we are not content with them; we have received Christ Himself. The Son of God has been poured into us, and we have received Him, and appropriated Him. What a heartful Jesus must be, for heaven itself cannot contain Him!

That thing I've done?

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 21:58:06 GMT

Check out my new LJ Profile Bio...

Surprise!

Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:21:49 GMT

It's my life. No one else's.

Sweet Sleep.

Sat, 28 Oct 2006 12:10:12 GMT

I just slept from 7pm last night until 730am this morning and it felt FABULOUS!

drowning in heavy eye lids

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:45:59 GMT

It's actually quite embarrassing to sit and do nothing whie everyone around me has work. I guess I have to grin and bear it and I will - but let me tell you, time does not fly when the only thing you've got is space to stare into.

Hold On

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 01:15:21 GMT

Seems like every time the ball (of my life) gets rolling, something stops me in my tracks and I get run over. If you know me at all, you know that I never stay in one place too long - I move (residence) like the wind blows and I've had a myriad of jobs - all leaving me increadibly experienced and that much wiser, but you have no idea how much I desire to be steady and still for a significant amount of time. And as much as I may try to accomplish these things, it has been made apparent to me that they are all a great deal out of my control ... oddly enough.

I'm not sure what the Lord is doing with me or what meaning He has in pulling the rug out from under me time and time again - but I've gotten quite good at standing in one place when that rug is being pulled. That one place I stand though has left me exhausted, exasperated and I do have to admit, I feel quite alone. Although being alone, for me, is not a bad thing, it's sobering to look around and not see anyone in similar shoes. Sure, I share isolated experiences with folks, but I really doubt that anyone as "sane" as I am has seen as many storms as I've seen. I won't differentiate which is which, but between how many jobs I've had and how many places I've lived, together it totals 56.

If I had a perfect world, I would be going to school to study art history, history and getting a divinity degree. I really don't see school being in the mix for me and perhaps we might call that unfortunate, but to be honest, no schooling could provide the vast depth of experience I have. It would, however, provide a depth of stability and direction - two things I really have missed out on now for 25 years. Let's just hope that the next years of my life aren't best predicted by the last 25 years.

As of right now, I am looking for a job and a home. This would be a good time to completely fall apart, but that simply is not an option. A wise phrasing comes to mind from my favorite poem, If by Rudyard Kipling;

"If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

Bisee.

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:55:34 GMT

I have not been around much - quite busy. I have to catch up a bit with all of you. And Sir_Dave, an extra big hug goes out to you. For now, I'm at work and just going to fill out this lil survey..

1. Explain what ended your last relationship? Bad Judegement.
2. When was the last time you shaved? This Morning.
3. What were you doing this morning at 8 a.m.? in commute.
4. Were you any good at math? maybe baby.
5. What were you doing 15 minutes ago? Not working.
6. Your prom night? Non existent.
7. Do you have any famous ancestors? Apparently Braveheart
8. Have you had to take a loan out for school? No college.
9. Do you know the words to the song on your myspace profile? No ma'am. (and myspace does not suck.)
10. Last thing received in the mail? Cant remember.
11. How many different beverages have you had today? None yet.
12. Do you ever leave messages on people's answering machine? Long ones.
13. Who did you lose your CONCERT virginity to? ZZ Top & Cheap Trick
14. Do you draw your name in the sand when you go to the beach? I have.
15. What's the most painful dental procedure you've had? General cleaning.
16. What is out your back door? The Patio.
17. Any plans for Friday night? Rehersal Dinner.
18. Do you like what the ocean does to your hair? certainly do.
19. Have you ever received one of those big tins of 3 different popcorns? not really.
20. Have you ever been to a planetarium? Long ago.
21. Do you re-use towels after you shower? Sure do.
22. Some things you are excited about? turning 25.
23. What is your favorite flavor of JELLO? no jello.
24. Describe your keychain(s)? Simply patriotic.
25. Where do you keep your change? change plate.

A Simply Simple Lesson

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 16:10:23 GMT

October 4

The Mighty Magnet

And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. (John 12:32)

Come, ye workers, be encouraged. You fear that you cannot draw a congregation. Try the preaching of a crucified, risen, and ascended Savior; for this is the greatest "draw" that was ever yet manifested among men. What drew you to Christ but Christ? What draws you to Him now but His own blessed self? If you have been drawn to religion by anything else, you will soon be drawn away from it; but Jesus has held you and will hold you even to the end. Why, then, doubt His power to draw other? Go with the name of Jesus to those who have hitherto been stubborn and see if it does not draw them.

No sort of man is beyond this drawing power. Old and young, rich and poor, ignorant and leaned, depraved or amiable—all men shall feel the attractive force. Jesus is the one magnet. Let us not think of any other. Music will not draw to Jesus, neither will eloquence, logic, ceremonial, or noise. Jesus Himself must draw men to Himself; and Jesus is quite equal to the work in every case. Be not tempted by the quackeries of the day; but as workers for the Lord work in His own way, and draw with the Lord's own cords. Draw to Christ, and draw by Christ, for then Christ will draw by you.

i want to be someone else so i'll explode..

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 01:47:37 GMT

Funny for your bones: http://www.endofworld.net/

In almost seriousness: http://www.glennbeck.com/news/08222006.shtml

Song For A Friend

Thu, 28 Sep 2006 04:02:59 GMT

Well you're magic he said
But don't let it all go to your head
'Cause I bet if you all had it all figured out
Then you’d never get out of bed
Well no doubt
Of all the things that I’ve read what he wrote me
Is now sounding like the man I was hoping to be
Keep on keeping it real
'Cause it keeps getting easier he'll see
He’s the reason that I’m laughing
Even if there’s no one else
He said, you’ve got to love yourself

He said you shouldn’t mumble when you speak
But keep your tongue up in your cheek
And if you stumble onto something
Better remember that it’s humble that you seek
And you’ve got all the skill you need
Individuality
You’ve got something
Call it gumption
Call it anything you want
Because when you play the fool now
You’re only fooling everyone else
You’re learning to love yourself.

yes you are
you are
yes you, you

There’s no price to pay
When you give and what you take.
That’s why it’s easy to thank you.
You, you, you, you, you

Let’s say take a break from our day and get back to the old garage.
Becuase life’s too short anyway but at least it’s better than average.
As long as you got me and I got you
You know we've got a lot to go around
I’ll be your friend
Your other brother
Another love to come and comfort you.
And I’ll keep reminding
If it’s the only thing I ever do
I will always love you
You, you, you
You

It's true I love it's true
It's you I love, it's you I love, It's you, It's you I love
It's true I love, it's true I love
It's you I love
It's you I love, it's you I love, it's you I love
I love you I do

oh and it's you I love

Climb up over the top.
Survey the state of the soul.
You’ve got to find out for yourself whether or not you’re truly trying.
Why not give it a shot?
Shake it, Take control
And inevitably wind up
Finding for yourself
All the strengths you have inside still rising

Bridal Shower Practice.

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 02:09:01 GMT

For: My sister, Kristen.

Where: Baltimore Museum of Art and Gertrude's.

What time: Saturday, October 14. Meet at the Museum at 11AM. Brunch @ Gertrude's from 1 to 3PM.

Bring: Admission $10 Museum, Money for brunch, reasonable prices for fine food, a festive excitement for Kristen's new marriage and life with Mr. Shawn Hill.

And then for just the girls: Kristen, the blushing bride to be. Amy, Katie, Kate & Thea. We are going to be having a Bachlorette party at Brewer's Art in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Here's how it is going to work. There is not much money to throw a catered bridal shower, or even host a tea party at a local tearoom. So! I have hopefull come up with a solution that will allow the ladies of the family & friends of Kristen to get together and share in this blessed event by inviting everyone to an Art Museum and also brunch - somehow I will have to find a way to communicate that none of this is paid for and gifts are not needed, but at your own discretion. I hope it is not unheard of to invite to a bridal shower event and ask to pay their own way.

So at 11, we will meet to surprise Kristen at 11:30 at the Baltimore Museum of Art. And then we will enjoy that until 1PM when brunch is...party will end somewhere around 3PM. And after that, everyone can do as they please - tour Baltimore, more of the art museum or go home. And then around 7PM, the girls will gather back together at Brewer's Art for the fun-lobing Bachlorette party - Amy doing most of the fun party planning of that.

Kristen will be blown away by the bridal party...she has no idea that many people in her family will be there. I'm so excited!!

nudge

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 01:25:58 GMT

Wisdom is knowing what comes next; Virtue is doing it.

It's easier to raise a finger than lend a helping hand.

Anyone out there?

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:48:29 GMT

Do you like the inside or the outside of a white tic tac best?