Huh. The whole vengence bit upthread just made me realize. The folks who made me the most miserable back in the day just aren't on my radar anymore. And considering the whole drama queen/attention whore components to their make-up*, that would probably bother them more than anything I could do to them. 'Cause you don't bother with the stakes, honey, and fire-ants unless it matters.
* Seriously. Someone on the perephery of our circle committed suicide and they decided it was all due to a psychic attack aimed at them that had missed. That was part of what made me go Uh, I think I have a thing . . . over there . . . buh-buy.
Actually ita, that paragraph inspires three whole different "Christ, why?"s. Sure they're all connected by medium, but they each deserve their own seperate reactions.
I always have a hard time with saying "the best thing anyone did for me " because I don't agood way of ranking anythign. There are lots of good things I have recieved ,that were perfect due to the time, but sound vaguely silly looking back. the best things to me are always the intangibles. and are continuous. I think Matt has given me more than anyone else, because he has given me room to be me without compromising what he is. I just tried to put examples here - but they don't really capture what I mean
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So the best thing I observed this week:
I see a lot of famlies at the libraries - and most of the dynamics familiar - and you like to just reach out to giv ethe parent and child each a tweak - so they see what they are doing to each other.on rare occassion I can actually help them reach a compromise. yesterday I saw one of the really good working families. mom , 14 yr old son and 8 yr old son - they were looking for a book that was out. Turns out, they were looking for a book that the three of them could read together. now the boys weren't jumping up and down with excitment, but they were listening to suggestions, with a little prodding they were giving opinions about the books I suggested. It is so nice to see families that seem , at least in part, to be working together.
Oh I totally forgot the time I fell down my friend's narrow, carpeted basement stairs while carrying our drummer's bass drum and felt like my neck was twisting under me. Maybe not close to death but paralysis? yes. Fortunately I pulled out a landing that just left me bruised. And then the bass drum fell on top of me. We've had a love/hate relationship ever since. And I won't ever carry it again.
A lovely bit of IMDB snippetting:
A psychologist at Harvard Medical School has heatedly criticized Sesame Workshop for producing a DVD aimed at babies and toddlers aged 6 months to 2 years. In an interview with today's (Tuesday) Washington Post, Susan Linn, who is also founder of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, called the DVD "a betrayal of babies and families" and added, "There is no evidence that media is beneficial for babies, and they are starting to find evidence that it may be harmful. Until we know for sure, we shouldn't risk putting them in front of the television." But Rosemarie Truglio of Sesame Workshop, which produced the DVD with the child-development group Zero to Three, insisted that the Workshop, which also is responsible for PBS's Sesame Street, "did a lot of research and preparation" for the video. However, Zero to Three cofounder T. Berry Brazelton is lending his name to the opposition, urging that "children under two be kept away from screen media. It's too expensive for them physically as well as psychologically," he said.
So what does it do to kids? Cancer? Immolation? What?
Best thing. Last summer when I was in the middle of dealing with Mom's chemo, a friend of mine dragged me up to Charlottesville for a long weekend of not dealing with Mom's chemo. It was a sanity-saving mini-vacation. She's probably the only one who can convince me to do things when I'm in real heel-digging mode, too.
Christ, why?
The universe trying desperately to bring me and Bowie together at long last?
The universe trying desperately to bring me and Bowie together at long last?
You're going to try out for the part of singing Bruce Lee?!?
You could totally do that.
We'll be in the same city.
Frankly, the universe seems to be being a little bit round-about for my tastes, but that's really not my call.
