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Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:51:27 -0700

"We must make an idol of our fear, and call it God."
- Antonius Block, in a line from Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal

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Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:57:06 -0700

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Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:52:40 -0700

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Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:31:33 -0700

The rebirth of hope can be observed in a poem that Jorge Luis Borges composed which his biographers claim was likely the last thing he ever wrote in his native land. Entitled simply, "1985," it was an act of faith in Argentina's capacity to regenerate itself.

Borges claims that the patria was not to be found in "some famous date," or in the "short-lived fury or fervor of the fickle masses,"
rather --

He felt it in more intimate things, in the odor of jasmines, in a daguerreotype, a garden at dusk, maybe in, "a sword that has served in the desert," or "a history annotated by a dead man."

So what, then, was the patria?

Borges shares:

Something in my breast and in your breast,
Something dreamed of yet never made,
Something blown away by the wind, yet not mislaid.

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"There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads
on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows
and in miseries.

We must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures." - W.S.

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Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:51:09 -0700

A wise man once wrote in verse, "If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise don't even start."

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Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:36:55 -0800

“Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us -- and those around us -- more effectively.

Look for the learning.”

{ Louisa May Alcott }

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Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:41:31 -0800

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Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:16:49 -0800

Looking back...

Journal entry dated Apr 5, 2008 - Part 1 & 2

Going forward...

I have wanted this for so long.
And now we can have it.
And ~~now~~ we ~~can~~ have it.

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Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:05:45 -0800

Eric and I are getting married. :)

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Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:52:30 -0800

-- she fell asleep at his side, clutching his hand. She held his hand all night.

Even at the age of eight she would fall asleep by pressing one hand into the other and making believe she was holding the hand of the man whom she loved, the man of her life. So if in her sleep she pressed Tomas's hand with such tenacity, we can understand why.

{ Milan Kundera }
The Unbearable Lightness of Being