In the Spirit of Friendship
I get email forwards all the time. Most of us do. Today I got one that was a little more inspiring than the average fare, and I thought I would share some of it, with a little commentary. I hope you will find it equally inspiring. People come into your life ...
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February 24, 2010
To Those Arriving From Facebook (and my past)
The focus of this blog will shock you. I can't help that. The subject matter is at the very least unconventional. I've spent so long in the thick of unconventionality that I forgot what it was like to look in from the outside. It may or may not comfort you ...
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January 3, 2010
Crossing the Abyss – A Repost
I originally posted this about a year ago. I just made a permanent page for it (link in the sidebar of this blog), and I'm reposting it here because I don't know if the RSS feed picks up pages. The first time I posted it, it received zero comments, which ...
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January 2, 2010
Wow, Nostalgia
My mood has been all over the place lately. The last couple of hours, I've been damn happy. Mostly lately, I've been blah. I'm savoring this happy time. So I'm working on my book and listening to Winamp. And Rush's "The Trees" comes on, and wow... what a rush. No ...
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December 27, 2009
English Language FAIL
I've been combing the thesaurus and the dictionary for a synonym for "experience" (verb form). Did you know that, unless you have a very specific experience in mind (e.g. "feel" or "imagine" or "meet," et al), there isn't a good substitute? I need an adjective adverb form of "experience," ending ...
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July 20, 2009
Kali! I Wanna Be Inspired
"I love my car. I miss my car." — Sandra Bullock as Annie Porter in Speed I miss my blog. I am way sick of all the demands on my time, but the ones I'd give up aren't optional. Damn. :) So how are you? I can't remember if I mentioned ...
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May 5, 2009
Meridjet Motives in a New Light
I was reading Wikipedia a bit ago, about schema therapy. There was a link at the bottom to their page on Cognitive Dissonance, in which I found this gem: Most of the research on cognitive dissonance takes the form of "induced compliance without sufficient justification." In these studies, participants are ...
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February 12, 2009
Where’s YOUR Clitoris?
Random memory time. A few years back on LiveJournal, I was a member of several sexuality communities ranging from "Fem Submissives" (which I owned for a short stint when it was passed to me, before I ultimately passed it on to someone else) and other kink communities to "Sex Tips," ...
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January 26, 2009
I Have Spent an Eternity in the Wind
In my youth, I was always moved by music and absorbed it like a sponge. That doesn't happen automatically anymore, but sometimes something will catch my ear and I can tap into that part of me again, for a while. Barring that, there's always Winamp and my old favorites. I ...
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November 25, 2008
Talk About Out On A Limb…
The other day I wrote the post "Memory Lane is Nowhere Road," a random ramble about places I used to live and people I used to know. When I was 18, I met the San Antonio-based band Heyoka and followed them closely (if not always literally) for several years, whenever ...
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October 28, 2008
Unrelated Bits of Information
Today in History On June 25, 1876, Lt. Col. George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry were wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the Battle of Little Big Horn in Montana. (source: The New York Times) I remember that. :) In the only past life regression I ever had of ...
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June 25, 2008
A Dream of Meridjet — and Donald Tyson
I met Donald Tyson (online) in 1999 when he was writing his book Sexual Alchemy. A friend of mine mentioned the upcoming book to me, so I emailed Don about it, as it was the first time I'd ever heard of anyone else with a spirit companion. He replied, and ...
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May 29, 2008
Trust is a Difficult Issue
For documentation purposes, I need to post about a recent event, though there's only so much I want to post publicly. I'm looking into a way to filter some posts to registered users of this site, but for now I will only give a sketchy description and it will have ...
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May 24, 2008
Joey Was Here
Among the stranger synchronicities of recent days, today I found myself Wiki-ing Joey Ramone, who has been on my mind all night, only to discover that today is his birthday. He would have been 57 this year, which makes him ten years older than I am. Or would have. Once during ...
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May 19, 2008
Meridjet and Lying, or Moral Ambiguity for a Cause
In an archival post from the old, defunct LiveJournal, dated 24 October 2003, I quoted an email regarding his ability to lie. My ideas have changed since then, but I am gonna go ahead and give you the old perspective first. The email text in italics, then the body of ...
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May 11, 2008
Funny Anecdotes to Blush By
I think I have to start carrying around a little notebook so that when I see/hear/think of something funny or significant, I can write it down to blog later. There have been at least three occasions in the past week when I’ve said, “I have to blog about this!” only ...
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May 9, 2008
Funky, Weird, and Out of Sorts
There’s so much to say and so many things going on lately that my mind is actually blank. I don’t know where to start or what to include, and let me tell you: it’s a rare day that I’m at a loss for words to put in my blog. This ...
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May 8, 2008
Spiders Stay Outside
I intended to complete yesterday’s post, but other things got in the way and it’ll just have to wait. I am no longer quite focused in that direction. Meridjet has grown quiet over the last couple of days, though not completely silent. Last night I had dreams from which I ...
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April 14, 2008
Teaser Memory
Perhaps it hasn’t been readily apparent in this blog recently, but I’m very much an optimist. I have always been a live-in-the-moment type of person, and while that can get me into trouble financially due to not thinking ahead, it does a world of good for my peace of mind. ...
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April 13, 2008
Historical Recollections, and Fear
I haven’t slept much in the past few days. I wake up within a few hours of going to bed and am unable to go back to sleep. It hasn't been so bad – I’ve been getting around six hours sleep a day – until this morning. This morning, I ...
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