Black Oak's Daughter

Roomie and I were talking today about how laundry was different when we were younger.  He’s a country boy and a little older than I am, so he remembers pumping water from the well and heating it on the stove.  We had indoor plumbing in Chicago so I never got to experience that one.
Things that [...]

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I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one’s inner life. And that too is a deed.
-Etty Hillesum

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Appetizer
Name something you would categorize as weird. – my big brothers are both kinda strange
Soup
What color was the last piece of food you ate?- chocolate
Salad
On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being highest, how much do you enjoy being alone? 5 I’don’t mind being alone, but I wouldn’t want that all the [...]

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Today was stressful.  My boss asked me for 3 things last week and I got exactly none of them done because of the trauma at work.  I didn’t get to them over the weekend either, because I needed some personal space away from work. We took a hard hit last week and I needed to [...]

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Take the word victim off of your person–out of your vocabulary. It reeks with the old energy and does not suit your magnificence.
-Kryon

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OK, so I know you don’t do birthdays, and it’s just another day, and all that, but it’s not. It’s your birthday. A celebration of the day you came into the world and that’s pretty important, at least in my book.
You’ve been such a positive influence in my life, both through some of the mind [...]

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The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you’ve created in your own life. Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self-love grows.
-Don Miguel Ruiz

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One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
French proverb

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my cats.
All 55 pounds of them.
They like the carpet more than the bed.
There’s more room for them to stretch out on the floor too.
and I can roll over and not get cat ass in my face, or someone chomping a toe.
I should have done this sooner.

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Today really REALLY sucked.  I won’t detail it here though because I’d rather not be Dooced.  I’ve worked at the same company for 14 years. I have some dear friends that were very affected by what happened today, I was not. I know they are friends, because after they got the news, they called me [...]

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