oprah's talking about being 30-something

i'm half-watching Oprah talk to 30-something women in the US and feeling glad that she's talking to us, and kind-of annoyed by her interaction with the muslim woman she just spoke with. in any case, being in the 30-something age group is really interesting because women are at such different places in our careers, lives, families and strauggling with the same, but also really different issues. It is a puzzile

poetry is good for the soul

and my friend Maya's is indescribably lovely. See, for example: one paragraph at a time: report card

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"We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake."
--Marie B. Ray

shhh....

Secrets,
originally uploaded by RoBeRtO!!!.

Is something a secret if both people know what the secret is, but just never mention it?

being sick is a bummer

I've been sick with that sore throat, headache, too dang tired to do anything sickness. I hate it because I feel so unproductive. I'm home - I could be painting and cleaning my house and doing all sorts of delightful things. Instead, I have as much energy as wilted lettuce. All I want to do is sleep. Except I've already done that all day.

Maybe I'll start a the next book on my reading list...

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There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
-- Anaïs Nin

convergence

I was talking to a friend last night - a conversation all about convergence or mutuality or reaching for each other. It made me wonder if the idea, this feeling I have, that someday I will find a person who I want as much as they want me. Who wants me as much as I want them.

"Love is a friendship set to music." ~ E. Joseph Cossman