Today

Mar. 25th, 2009 11:48 am
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I've spent the morning cleaning my dishes and laundry. It has left me feeling very peaceful, a sensation that is no doubt helped by the weather.

It's a beautiful day; clear blue sky with only a few fluffy white clouds in the distance, heat radiating through my open windows, a light breeze occasionally stirring the leaves. My lawn is freshly mowed, and the green is pale against the dark jade & ruby foliage of the hedge. The trellis bordering my deck is a crisp white that reflects the sun, where it manages to peek over the bulk of the house. All in all, it's a banquet of colours to delight the senses.



I'm currently sitting in my living room, beside the sliding door that opens onto the deck, and I can feel both the warmth of the sun and the intermittent soft breeze. I've got Kings of Leon playing in the background, the cat lounging at my feet, a good book ("Kissing the Limitless" by T. Thorn Coyle) sitting beside me, and a bunch of awesome emails in my inbox.

I love days like this.
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Your result for Which Tarot Card Represents Your Higher Self? Test... Death )
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Imagine going onto a forum for the first time, and attempting to tell the other posters what sort of things they are allowed to say and which parts of posts they are allowed to reply to...  Then telling the host to delete threads you don't like.

Some people have brass balls, alright.  Either that, or they need an operation to remove their head from their arse.

It took me two years of lurking, then posting, at my favourite forum, just to feel comfortable that the people knew me well enough that I could be my usual blunt self.  It amazes me to think that other people are so...arrogant... that they can go somewhere that no-one knows them, and then expect other people to change to suit them.

Jet, I'm not sure if I want your 'Logic go boom!' icon here, or your 'Don't make me zap you!' one.
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Quote provided by Darkhawk:
"A man once asked me--it is true that it was at the end of a very good dinner, and the compliment conveyed may have been due to that circumstance--how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. Was I, by any chance, a member of a larged, mixed family with a lot of male friends? I replied that, on the contrary, I was an only child and had practically never seen or spoken to any men of my own age till I was about twenty-five. 'Well,' said the man, 'I shouldn't have expected a woman [meaning me] to have been able to make it so convincing.' I replied that I had coped with this difficult problem by making my men talk, as far as possible, like ordinary human beings. This aspect of the matter seemed to surprise the other speaker; he said no more, but took it away to chew it over. One of these days it may quite likely occur to him that women, as well as men, when left to themselves, talk very much like human beings also."
--Dorothy L. Sayers
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Q. Moravius Cunctator: "Some people see life as a railway journey: reaching a new station means leaving the others behind. Others see life like the growth of a tree, with the earlier years recorded as inner rings on one's trunk."
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"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for the spring. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature--the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter."

-- Rachel Carson, biologist, The Sense of Wonder (Harper & Row, 1965)

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