Tag: random musings
member name: Annina Anton
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June 29, 2006 05:08 PM EDT --
THE URGE
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June 27, 2006 10:26 PM EDT --
Summer's come to call
And with it brings a sweet kiss
Of bright remembrance.
Rainstorm do your all
To nourish parched environs
With your moisture rare.
Tree frog counterpoint
Lonely croaking pleas . . .
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May 22, 2006 03:22 PM EDT --
Thirty years ago today I got married to my best friend. Lots has changed in the intervening decades, but he's still my best friend and I'm his. I guess that's the bottom line when it comes . . .
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June 02, 2006 06:03 PM EDT --
Well, okay--you got me. It wasn't the phone, but the phone charger that was neatly chewed to the point where it wouldn't feed my fone...sorry...phone. [switching off alliteration toggle in brain] . . .
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June 27, 2006 12:50 PM EDT --
When I was three years old, my parents and I made a cross-country automobile trip in our brand new 1953 Chevrolet sedan, from the San Francisco Bay Area to the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York. . . .
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July 13, 2006 05:31 AM EDT --
Today is my birthday, and I would have written this musing even if it weren't the beginning of my fifty-seventh year on this planet, but birthdays remind me of something very important.
You see, every . . .
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July 02, 2006 12:58 PM EDT --
Nope. That title is not a typo. This morning I was reminiscing about my teen years in South Jersey, and remembered the summer of '67 which I spent with my grandmother, Aunt Carol, and cousin . . .
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April 20, 2006 03:51 PM EDT --
Last night, Erik, my beamish boy of 22 years came home from work all excited about his mortgages and loans class at the credit union where he works, and all hepped up on too many Mountain Dews.
He was . . .
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June 07, 2006 01:04 AM EDT --
In curving, lyrical, Tibetan calligraphy, a phrase graces the doorway of a Buddhist temple. It describes the numinous and enthralling manner in which enlightenment is found. "One million monks, one . . .
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June 17, 2006 12:23 AM EDT --
Shamelessly transferred from my LiveJournal, consider it part of the 100 Things About Me verbiage.
1)How old do you wish you were?
Twenty-five, but with all the experience and smarts I have now. . . .
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July 02, 2006 11:52 AM EDT --
I come from changeling stock. My mother was a wild child who sprang out of Mother Earth like a sprite being born, and she passed her cherishing of nature on to me.
One early summer day back in the late . . .
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March 12, 2006 07:37 PM EST --
The Shah of Iran once said of women, "You have never produced a Bach or a Michelangelo...," and that statement deeply bothered me. In point of fact, women did produce both Bach and Michaelangelo, . . .
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June 25, 2006 03:11 PM EDT --
Journeys...
Do you remember how
The dreams come in waves
And how we watch as on
The silver screen--a play?
Or act the parts ourselves
So that from deep within,
Messages get their share
Of inner . . .
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April 18, 2006 01:39 PM EDT --
One hundred years ago today, the most powerful earthquake to ever strike the continental United States hit the San Francisco Bay Area, jolting cities up and down the California coast as two tectonic plates . . .
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June 20, 2006 12:05 AM EDT --
A long time ago, a dear friend named Jamie, who is like a daughter to me, gave me a journal which she had made from handmade paper, with envelopes bound right in for special memories, and with the cover . . .
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April 01, 2006 02:27 PM EST --
Some time ago I began to refer to discount thrift bakeries as "used bread stores." After all, they sweep the items from the supermarket shelves and truck it back to the thrift store to sell as . . .
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June 07, 2006 04:53 AM EDT --
A long time ago, a dear friend named Jamie, who is like a daughter to me, gave me a journal which she had made from handmade paper, with envelopes bound right in for special memories, and with the cover . . .
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March 03, 2006 11:18 AM EST --
Even if she knew what it is that I do with keyboards and paper and pen, Neferkiti would be unimpressed. She is typical of her breed in this way--blissfully unaware, no better still, unaware by intention . . .
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April 27, 2006 02:42 PM EDT --
Just who thought up the term, "bug," to represent an upset tummy and other gastrointestinal nasties?
Yesterday was a fast day, not in speed, but the simple fact that the only thing I could keep . . .
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April 26, 2006 04:10 AM EDT --
It was an aging Ben Franklin Five and Dime store on Main Street. The windows that ran along the front of the store seemed more capable of lighting the place than the ancient fluorescent lamps that hung . . .
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