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Saturday, June 25th, 2005

Uh Oh. I know. It’s a pain for me to move this, but I have found a different blog service that I want to use for my main blog.
The title remains the same – Virago Vagabond.
That’s not to say I won’t use BootsnAll in the future, because I will. I love BootsnAll. But I’m moving my main blog to a new server. Sorry for the inconvenience.

I hope you’ll check it out.

If the link doesn’t work, here’s the address: http://viragovagabond.blogspot.com/

I’ll keep this blog open for a while just in case a friend misses the switch.

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Our Deepest Fear

Saturday, June 25th, 2005

I hate it when movies and television steal great poems and quotes for gratuitous tear-jerker moments.

The Dylan Thomas/Bob Dylan references in “Dangerous Minds” is just one example in a sea of sacrilege.
I get the same feeling when I see BB King doing Burger King commercials and Janis Joplin selling a Mercedes Benz from her grave.

Is nothing sacred?

So while watching “Coach Carter,” in which Samuel Jackson plays a tough-as-nails basketball coach at a ghetto California high school, I started to cringe when one of his players recites a wonderful poem in a typical movie power moment. Dim the lights and cue the sappy soundtrack.

I had heard the poem before, wrongly attributed to Nelson Mandela’s 1994 inauguration speech.

It’s good, and once again Hollywood has bastardized it to sell a bucket of popcorn and a gallon of Pepsi.

Well, I’m not selling Goobers and $8 movie tickets. I just want to share it with you.

Our Deepest Fear
by Marianne Williamson
from A Return To Love: Reflections on
the Principles of A Course in Miracles

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

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Watch Me Soar

Friday, June 24th, 2005
There’s a hill on a road that's named after my family. It’s the refuse of a glacier that scraped across the continent thousands of years ago. In the fourth grade I learned the name of this landform, but I never ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Oh the Places I’ll Go

Friday, June 24th, 2005
(my apologies to Dr. Seuss for butchering his style) Hello! I have a question; it's a big one too. I need a suggestion, and I thought of you. Over and over I've read Dr. Seuss' book, And from "Oh the Places You'll Go" a lesson ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Lady of the Library

Friday, June 24th, 2005

I love librarians.

Forget the orders to whisper, the secret society of the Dewey Decimal System and the late-fee nazi. Librarians are mainly magical people.

They have tools, and they know how to use them. They might not know how ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Email the female

Thursday, June 23rd, 2005
At approximately 12:37 a.m. I emailed two theater groups - 7th Sign and NYMT Collective - an email asking them to forward it on to Elliotte Crowell. This is her: Elliotte Crowell My email:
To Elliotte Crowell: Hello. ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Google whogle?

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005
Since search engines are right at my fingertips, even as I type this blog, I have opted to Google for "Elliotte" female and "Elliotte" woman, etc. I'm starting with my exact spelling, but I'll branch out to various numbers ... [Continue reading this entry]

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SS Elliotte

Tuesday, June 21st, 2005
In the hunt for female Elliottes, I figured it's best to start close to home. So, who keeps track of all the Elliottes in the United States? What secretive, potentially evil government agency has a database that will reveal the female ... [Continue reading this entry]

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The hunt for female Elliottes

Tuesday, June 21st, 2005
"Hi. My name is Elliotte." surprised look - "Elliotte? For real, your name is Elliotte?" mental sigh - "Yes. Elliotte. My dad named me after a cocktail waitress in Hawaii. Nice to meet you Joe." This is a conversation I have had hundreds, ... [Continue reading this entry]

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What is a Virago?

Sunday, June 19th, 2005
Now, nasty dictionaries (note the word "dic" in their name) make viragoes sound bad - a quick Google search gave me "a noisy or scolding or domineering woman," and wikipedia even said it's " a pejorative name for ... [Continue reading this entry]

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