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Michelle

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joined on 02/05/09
last updated 11/16/09
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Learning the great joys of XML. As a pragmatic-romantic I love balancing the clean (emotionless) focus of this base language along with the emotionally chaotic aspects of people and art. .
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Eire – Tired, I come home; carefully placing my scabbard on the table as I crouch down to a meal of tepid water. So tired of the battle… so tired

America - Not much is left of me after this last raid. The white savages get closer and closer every day and my people can not run any further.

America - I must continue to hold off these red savages, they’ve taken my children and spouse. I must keep fighting for what is right

America – Barely survived that last battle…so glad to be home.... read more
Thu, April 16, 2009 - 4:14 PM permalink - 1 comment
 

Breath slows, heart beat drums

Flowing in, pause
Flowing out, pause
Narrator narrates the process
No thoughts, return to breath

Narrator catches a thought
And lets it go

Breath in
Narrator narrates

Breath out
Narrator gets sleepy

Flow in
Narrator falls asleep

Flow out
Awareness falls awake

Flow in
The pregnant void
Flow out
Expanded awareness

Heart beat softens as the breath lengthens
The beat, the breath, the ebb and flow…the unnamed is
Thu, April 2, 2009 - 1:12 PM permalink - 1 comment
 
We’re back visiting the bohemian “green triangle” area of Northern CA and having a great time. We attended a poetry reading at a local coffee shop. I don't usually like to go to these things as I don’t generally do well with "live" shows. Tonight I went and just decided to work on keeping my awareness in my heart and opening up fully to the space. What an experience - people from all walks of life sharing a single bohemian thread - the desire to think on the fringes of society.

What ... read more
Fri, March 13, 2009 - 12:05 AM permalink - 1 comment
 

"Work smart not hard"
I thought that was a clever and clean little quote (relayed by one of my computer class instructors, today). It's right up there with, "Pain happens but suffering is an option" and "To survive is to row upstream but to truly live is to flow downstream." I could go on with these all day, lol.

Another wonderful insight I found, from the new book Outliers, is that it takes roughly 10,000 hours (around 10 years of regular daily hours of focus) to become an expert at s... read more
Fri, February 6, 2009 - 10:00 AM permalink - 4 comments
 
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Re: Personality Type Bias in the Media (in INFJ) I'm getting too many unknown and strange invites with my photo up so I think I'll go back to a photo of my painting. I just wanted to show my face and say, "Hi!" Cheers all
discussion post on Wed, November 18, 2009 - 8:56 AM
Re: Personality Type Bias in the Media (in INFJ) * I think the challenge here might be that I am a writer who generally writes in a conversationalist style (unless doing tech. writing). I also post a lot, back and forth, w/ friends on certain tribes so we've become more flowing with our text.
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discussion post on Mon, November 16, 2009 - 11:41 PM
Re: Empathing on PURPOSE! Part 2 (in Empaths & Empowerment) I only picked a few live people (and one imaginary) on my list because I too am less interested in who they actually are and more interested in the qualities I attribute to them and resonate with.

Too with Gandi, I read his autobiography and he... read more
discussion post on Mon, November 16, 2009 - 10:54 PM
Living mulch and snails (in Permaculture) Hi again I had another question due to now gardening on the Ca central coast. This moderate weather really draws the slugs and snails. Are their certain living mulches that aren't as tasty to them? I'd always just used clover but that was in dr... read more
discussion post on Sun, November 15, 2009 - 6:52 PM
Permaculture gardening in Sand (in Permaculture) Hi all, we are starting a community garden on the central coast of CA. I've only done permaculture gardening in rocky clay soil so this is a big difference. The area we were given is sand as far as you can dig. I have three questions, if you co... read more
discussion post on Sun, November 15, 2009 - 6:48 PM
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