tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83999929118190331672009-04-03T21:10:49.649-07:00"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."LeSainthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913320413807985299saintfortyfive@yahoo.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8399992911819033167.post-40617240304327900652009-03-05T22:11:00.000-08:002009-03-05T22:16:00.207-08:00

"...set a larger bowl upon the table, mix less waterwith the wine, and give every man his cup, for these arevery dear friends, who are now under my roof."The Iliad, Book IX

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I would like to offer my copyediting and proofreading services to anyone who desires them, especially those of you in school.I have long been doing this for my close friends and have testimonials that a thorough proof by me has increased their essay and other assignment scores by a whole letter grade or more. Even if you're a good writer, an outside observer will catch mistakes you miss when

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...at the very least. We have no idea what we're in for, but I'm so ready; even eventual disaster (not that I foresee it) will have been worth the change.-----------------------------------------As I was saying....I caught myself awaiting the demise of Bush's reign as the end of an era. Satisfying though that was, it was a bitter satisfaction not sweet enough for what we're about to realize as a

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If you're one of those people who suffers from political indifference, please think twice this time around. If apathy about politics and government was ever a bad idea, now is the time.I don't know if we will see another election in our lifetimes wherein we have such radical control over the future condition of our states and country.The presidential vote is one thing, and it's a matter of

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Smart people do not:- Put regular dish soap in the dishwasher and "see what happens" (twice, forgetting about the first disaster),- Put powdered cocoa in with the coffee grounds in the coffee maker.Smart people do not make kitchen appliances go boom.There's no ironic undertone or philosophical allegory here.Just don't do these things.

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Gathering content for Teen Voices is a suprisingly gruelling process.As always, if any of you have siblings or friends age 13-19 who like to draw, paint, create computer graphics, write poetry, essays or stories, or if they're an aspiring journalist, we want their work for inclusion in the paper.Teen Voices is entirely non-profit and participation is free (and anonymous if the teen prefers).We're

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Just a humorous observation, not a solid diss. I actually hate Scooby Doo and wouldn't want to be compared to him, but once I noticed the resemblance, I couldn't resist.Oh and apparently Scooby can swim too.

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which to remember, yet ignore, and later bestow upon the grandchildren in a speech replete with finger-waggling, so that they may disregard until adulthood, then finally remember, understand, and proceed to ignore it themselves."The desire for something, while you cannot have it, will always outweigh the appreciation of it, once attained."In other words...

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...biological, adoptive, or anyone else who stepped up to the plate... never forget how fortunate you are. Think of everything you have now that would be lost without her in your past. Think of everything that would change if you lost her now. And don't forget to tell her how great she is.And if you've already lost your mom, remember that you were most assuredly her everything, and remember all

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"...the accusations are such nonsense that I have found it difficult to treat them with the contempt that they deserve." R.I.P. the very articulate Arthur C. Clarke.

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If you don't know whatever in the world ColourLovers or Moo is, check out my previous posts re: them. Now that you know that much, ColourLovers is one of the "designers" from whom you can order ready-made designs on Moo's products. ColourLovers submitted its top however-many palettes from last year for inclusion in its design packs, and I spied a few of my palettes in the shuffle.Just thought I'd

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Please pass the word along.I'm advising the production of a newspaper called Teen Voices, which is part of New Morning Youth and Family Services and is funded by United Way.The paper is written entirely by El Dorado County teens and is free, nonprofit, and uncensored. We produce four issues a year and distribute copies all over the county.I am continuously looking for teens to contribute

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Anyone and everyone,Christmas has come and gone but the cold weather isn't taking a holiday any time soon. My friend Jackson is conducting some pre-dawn outings this winter, volunteering his own time handing out blankets and coffee to homeless people in our area.Here in the next couple of days, I'm making a trip to downtown Sac to donate some blankets and styrofoam cups to his effort. Anyone from

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We're taught growing up (or at least we are in the USA) that red, yellow and blue are the primary colours - that all secondary and tertiary colours can be mixed from them. We're shown a colour wheel, which lays out how everything interacts, and all the colours seem to be there.Everything seemed in order until one morning a month or two ago, I woke up and wanted to paint a piece with the scheme

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When the best part of your life no longer wants to be yours, it's time to take stock of what you have to live for. The holidays have always meant family (read family and friends who are like family) to me, but this year, single and with family and friends sparser than ever, I've had to stare down the real meaning of Thanksgiving: the giving thanks part.I am thankful to have been born with all

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I'm just toeing the surface of the ocean here, but nothing inherently means anything. There exists no innate value or meaning, and nothing is any one thing until someone decides it's so. You only are if you or someone else says so, and the truth of any object or situation is predicated solely on the most vigilant faction or widely-accepted consensus of opinion about it. So the next time you

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Congrats to Mark for being featured in Canada's Globe and Mail (apparently it's like our New York Times, yanks), in an article about COLOURLovers. I told you this site was blowing up! Mark has always offered me so much sincere encouragement and so many kind words (thanks), and he's a truly gifted artist who deserves recognition.Here's my mashup of the article, with my own palette notes, linkage,

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Now that I got ColourLovers out of the way, it's time for what I wanted to show off yesterday.MOO is a progressive online printing service based in England. It enables users to print notecards, "minicards" and books of miniature stickers from Flickr, Second Life, or other personal designs; they also offer a selection of products from featured designers. You guessed it: one of those designers is

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I should have blogged about COLOURlovers a long time ago. Anyone who's interested in color, this is for you. If you know anything about color, particularly hexadecimal color, you're already home. If you don't know much about color, you'll pick up so much so fast. Either way, you create a little account and amass a collection of unique colors that you put a name to (here's a couple of my alltime

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I feel really fortunate right now. Things have been pretty rocky since just before last Christmas, but it seems like patience, doing unto others, and not taking my friends for granted, as simple and square as that sounds, has done me good.Thanks to those who just live and let live. I promise to do the same.

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When I was still using the MySpace layout template, I noticed while messing with my profile code that links from my profile to external sites were being corrupted as soon as I saved the code.After inputting the URLs for the links into the page code and pressing save, the page would appear normal and the links would work, but when I returned to the source code to find the links, they had been

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Granted, this is not actually funny, but it is somewhat, er..... curious.Or maybe it's 7:00 a.m. and my wit's threshold is a bit low yet.It seems that, on over 25 occasions, Oscar, who lives at a Providence nursing home, has curled up next to a patient just hours before their death. Doctors and nurses now notify patients' families when Oscar makes his rounds.If it's true that he's "not a cat

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I'm a Simpsons old-schooler, and the notion of this movie (I can't believe I haven't addressed it at all yet) makes me want to jump for joy/puke my brains out. Either way, I remain an intensely devoted and much-absorbed fanatic, and I will go see it.I may even pay to go see it.Simpsons fan or not, this is really fun: create your Simpsons avatar on the site.I clearly could have used this feature a

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To those who doubt the power of a little tenacity, I say...."FEED ME!"Behold: Audrey, my determined little flytrap, brought back from the grips of death at the hands of a hardware store seedling pot.A withered clump of roots with two blackened leaves and unresponsive traps just two months ago, she now has plenty of moss and rocks to wiggle around in, non-stop outdoor light, daily fresh water...

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