I haven’t tried it, (still using toothpaste) but I just read about this today..http://www.gomestic.com/Homemaking/Ten-Surprising-Uses-For-Aspirin-.39680

I’m slowly updating my store on Cafepress.com and I added this image to my series “Cuties” and made very cool posters, 20×13.1 (small) and 35×23.

I took this photo on a day trek up to Sarangkot, outside of Pohkara. I tried to take a candid picture, but they saw the camera and came running up to me.

A little bit of Sharmila Mali trivia, heh heh, my cousin is cropped out on the left, he was my pawn that I was pretending to take a picture of when I was really focused on these girls playing. But like I said, the camera was too much of hamlet opportunity for them. You can see what remains of his shoulder on the far left.

sorry Ajey…. :*

A friend that I hadn’t known for a long time, passed away from a rare form of cancer over the weekend.

His father had called me the day before he passed and asked me about chinese doctors in Gainesville. He said he is getting weaker. It didn’t sound good and for the first time since I met V, it occured to me that he may not live very long.

I’m shocked and sad and relieved knowing that he’s in a much better place. I also wondered about his passing and where the spirit is. I wonder if his family can be comforted in peace that he is free from that diseased-ridden body. He was only 20 and had cancer since he was 9, it went into remission, but came back.

For a young guy to be bed-ridden for what has been the last few months of his life, he was upbeat, positive and sociable. He was a bright kid, had a great sense of humor and we could talk about the most intellectual things and switch to the most mundane base humor. He was a cool kid.

His mother was his nurse, taking care of him 24 hours a day and she was also taking care of her family as well. I pray for her to see the hope in all of this and in her son, that physically she may not be with him, and that beyond this realm we all accustomed to, is something beyond our understanding…that he is no longer he, and that spirit we all loved is now everywhere, free, and she can commune with him all the time.

I am proud and grateful that I had the time with him. Much love B!

What does this evoke for me, for one, I was 13, in the 7th grade, was sort of shocked that I actually liked this song because I didn’t like following fads…and how she seemed so untouchable to me, how that kind of fame just is so fantastic, it’s just unfathomable. Also, the video was in 24/7 rotation on Mtv, you know back in the day when they actually used to show videos.

It brings up the insecurities that I still possess and still deal with, Imight have been the only 13-year-old or at least I thought concerned with figuring out my life, hoping desperately for something better than life at 13 and wondering if I was ever going to be out of this body and be someone else, like in Desperately Seeking Susan…

But on a lighter note, it was also the first dance song that she had that I could dance to…and the video is forever burned into my memory, with each segment of the song, I can see the whole damn video…the weird albino chasing them at the end of the video.

I’m so glad I’m not 13, I wouldn’t trade my childhood for adulthood, never!

a thousand times

the past is relived

pushing the buttons

over and over

masochism

though I push him away…

there he remains…

slowly fading…

trying to say good bye

and holding on

and letting it all go

the past,

the past,

what was

what was never meant to be

but in that time

releasing

there is a less of a charge

but a part of me

that holds on

for some reason

perhaps that is where we are still

joined.

why is that I only write prose when I’m down about something someone

less identified….strangely, but still I

push and push my button

that has his name all over it.

The name I put there.

ugh.  love.  it all.

open and unattached.

what ever that means.

Energy therapy

When I heard that award-winning actress Marlee Matlin was going to be on the show, I thought, wow, will she be able to pull it off? And she does. She just swept the floor with her partner…feeling the music, swaying, it’s truly inspirational, if you didn’t know who she was, you’d never know that she can’t hear the beats. It lives in her. It’s truly amazing to watch her, and the inspiration of going beyond personal, societal and medical limitations–it proves to me the limitless possibilities of the human condition, connected to the divine, motivating her to just go for it.

I salute her for grace, love, beauty and strength…and her agile dancing abilities. Makes me want to shake it…I need to go dancing….!!!

Does your dog do this after they do their business?

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?kilyzw1oq9z (more…)