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Kat

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joined on 01/14/04
last updated 10/07/07
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Yesterday is already a dream and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well-lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
--Sanskrit Proverb

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Weirdness Crutches

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"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
--Joseph Campbell

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This is someone else's photo--my thanks to whoever took it, and will take it down on request if need be. Yes, the large pink caboose is mine--my skirt went AWOL for the event.
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The Beaten Path

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Age
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Come out with me, come out with me
this night the stars are flame
all opened up like rose and tooth...
it shall not come again.

--The Way the Country Moves
from "Cruisin' at the Limit" by D.R. Wagner
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Set me aflame and cast me free

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Some people go to hell in a handbasket. Others go in style.
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Destiny's Mischivious Hand

Behind my eyes I see a tree who's canopy drapes like a willow, like spanish moss. The leaves are as brown as the trunk, but the ones at the end of the branches, which are a Halloween orange, and the leaves are rounded like tears. It is a particolored tree, the trunk leaning but strong, the bark molded to the sides like old paper. It stands alone in a clearing thick with a blanket of fallen leaves, and behind it is a sky the color and texture of mist. The place feels almost untouched, as if fe... read more
Wed, October 17, 2007 - 9:54 PM permalink - 1 comment
 
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I'd been having a bad week. The script I was meant to be writing just wasn't happening, and I'd spent days staring at a blank screen, occasionally writing a word like "The" and staring at it for an hour or so, and then, slowly, letter by letter, I'd delete it and write "And" or "But" instead. Then I'd exit without saving.

So Ed phoned and reminded me that I'd promised him a story. And seeing as nothing else was happening, and that this story was living in the back of my mind, I said sure. I wrote it in a weekend, a gift from the gods, easy and sweet as anything. Suddenly I was a writer transformed: I laughed in the face of danger and spat on the shoes of writer's block.

Then I sat and stared glumly at a blank screen for another week, because the gods have a sense of humor.

--Neil Gaiman, from the introduction to his book "Angels Visitations"

 
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