Self -love is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting"
- Shakespeare, Henry V

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"In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love."

-Brock Peters (actor who played Tom Robinson in the film "To Kill a Mockingbird") on co-star Gregory Peck.

Brock Peters (1927-8/24/2005)
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"mindfu@#ing doesn't count as sex."
- professor garner

I must have been a witch at least one time,
a wise and crafty woman and a clever queen
with sunset hair and ocean eyes.
I think I may have danced for princes
using my bare feet, my silk scarves and satin palms
to cast a spell, to grant their wishes.

I think I may have died at sea,
some sort of poignant drowning
in a storm before a calm—
water water everywhere with no indication
that I burned, although I may have smoldered,
smoked, and started fires—some details
are no longer clear, some memories appear
as prayers, surprising meditations,
languages spoken in another land.
I think I might have been a sorceress,
a siren with a velvet voice,
sunning on a rock, seducing sailors,
pirates, kings, explorers . . .
answering their questions, offering them a choice
to dance or dream, to rule or serve.
I must have seemed a goddess in those lights,
an angel in the afternoon, a nymph at night.

I must have taken many down
without a single cut or bruise.
They must have all been willing—
fathers, sons, only brothers—to abandon
wives and quests and kingdoms for the sound
of my sweet singing, plaintive, pure.
I must have been their muse
and there must have been a reason
or a premonition ringing in our ancient ears,
a rationale for all that dying.
This compassion for the wounded
must surely ripple from a stone
skipped long ago across a lake.
I must have loved to give them joy
and then to take their hands in mine
and lead them, man and boy,
to islands somewhere off the map,
to gardens they would grow to love
but never find the strength to leave.
I must have married through the ages—
knights and pawns, priests and mages,
switching names, surviving losses,
waiting centuries to grieve.

NUMBER 1 THOUGHT FOR 2006 - We know exactly where one cow with mad-cow disease is located among the millions and millions of cows in
America but we haven't got a clue as to where thousands of terrorists are located. Maybe we should put the Department of Agriculture in charge
of Homeland Security.

"To deny a compliment is to ask for one twice, and that's greedy"
-thank you, danarama!

12/29/2005 Thoughts of the day:
- "Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar." --Drew Carey

- "Relationships are hard. It's like a full time job, and we should treat it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they should give you two weeks' notice. There should be severance pay, the day before they leave you, they should have to find you a temp." --Bob Ettinger

- "A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: "Duh." --Conan O'Brien

- "If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead." --Johnny Carson

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12/20/2005: "Get your Christ out of my Solstice"
-posting title from pagan village tribe in response to the quote "put the christmas back in christmas."