December 8, 2006
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Crosspollination
In the spirit of Thankfulness, I thought I would shamelessly pump a few of the blogs I subscribe to. No particular order, I just went through recent posts of blogs (that I didn't think were private or restricted) and pulled out sample tidbits, hopefully for your enjoyment. My apologies if anyone is offended, but I thought this would be a fun substitute for showing my whole subscription list on my site. It’s not comprehensive, but maybe it’s pithy?
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“Last night, Robbie came into my bedroom as I was reading the book above. We started talking about school and he relayed the following incidents to me.
Incident "A": A White teacher was speaking in front of the class. A student began to playfully shine a laser pointer in his face and eyes as he was speaking. The teacher became irritated, yelled at the student and ordered her out of the classroom and to the dean's office.
As she left his classroom, she mumbled under her breath "Jus' 'cause I'm Black . . . " http://www.xanga.com/SwordAndSacrifice
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“A man walks into a bar . . .
No! Wait, that's not where I'm going with this! (Don't you love how I always have to preface serious stuff with totally unrelated attempts at humor?)
Forget it, I'll just jump right in.
Say you find out that someone you know, someone you've in fact known your entire life, someone you thought you were close to, has a presence in one of the online communities you frequent. You find this out by running a random search of people in your email address book one day. . .” http://www.xanga.com/ThatOneBlondeChick
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“I wish being in the presence of celebrity really made me feel like... um, all, celestial, intoxicated, or important.
But the greatest buzz I was getting was from my cocktail...”
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“So uh, in Hawaii there are these things called "Sugar Cane" spiders. They are as big as your hand with their legs spread out. They have thin bodies though... but big enough to have faces. Ya, you look at them, and you can see them looking back at you... with ALL their eyes.
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I'm sitting here, blogging away, when one of them comes across my wall. . .” http://www.xanga.com/theladyofabundance
Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. American Civil Rights Leader http://www.xanga.com/wlfspirit
seriously, people.
we should be able to:
lose our inhibitions and have fun without the help of alcohol.
relax without smoking or eating handfuls of chocolate.
wake ourselves up in the morning without coffee.
have our internet crash for a couple of days without feeling terribly inconvenienced and upset.
walk the streets confidently without wearing makeup. . . .
. . . we ought to be strong enough to go without...
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appreciative of all things, but addicted to nothing. http://www.xanga.com/StarOfLorien
“I'm in no need to fret or feel like i have to hurry...feels like the holidays are kind of paradoxical in the sense that it's time to relax, slow down and enjoy the cold and the company...but who the heck is corporate consumerist America kidding? not me...i went and did some shopping...seems like a hustle and a bustle and 2 cactuses close to my butt if you ask me...(weird expression out of nowhere)...but i decided that in the midst of shopping and going into this hurriedness flow of Christmas, i was going to chill...like a penguin in the North Pole...call me Happy Feet…” http://www.xanga.com/janicelittle
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“It has always fascinated me how two people can have the exact same experience (positive or negative), at the same time... and even in the pursuit of a "common interest," yet one sees the outcome as "excellent," while the other sees it as "shitty." Could be something as simple as two people with the same income and the same car getting the same kind of fender-bender fixed... yet one thinks $500 is "a good deal" while the other thinks the same deal is "outrageous."
I think about this stuff, and I am reminded that it's a small miracle that we even get along with each other... and that, of course, is my perception... where someone else would probably insist that getting along is easier than first grade math.” http://www.xanga.com/DenmarkGuy
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“Bryan and I have put up a Christmas tree. I think it's very pretty. I haven't had a tree in several years now. I never felt the need to put one up when I was single and when I wasn't single I was dating complete assholes who felt like it would be money wasted. Anyways, I love this tree. White lights, some Hallmark ornaments, a frog ornament, some blue and silver balls, some red spirally thingamabobs. (I'm good at this, aren't I?) It's pretty and I'm thrilled that Bryan helped decorate it.” http://www.xanga.com/zanyajc
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“Leben ist Loben...
"To live is to praise."
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...nothing like a good German phrase to make you think about God!” http://www.xanga.com/BradleyMarshallLenzner
“Remember as a child that painful lesson about sharing? Who wanted to share when it was more fun to have it all for yourself? It was worse to share with that bratty sibling or schoolmate who went and tattled that you were not sharing. How painful to give some of your loot to the smug-faced brat who dragged your name through the mud? I feel the same way when the government makes me share my hard-earned money with them. They smugly blow my money in stupid places and put their hand out for a larger portion when they've squandered it away. For some reason, it was always more pleasurable to share with somebody who didn't demand it from you and was in a needy place. Perhaps that is why we have more problem paying taxes than we do giving to charity.” http://www.xanga.com/polymergoddess
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“I am silently livid. All Saturday evening. They come out of his room around midnight. I'm not very good with hiding my rage. You can see it on my face. Same thing if I tried to lie. I can't lie. It shows on my face I don't even try to do it. I'm not good at it. Jamie can see I'm sucking something in. He doesn't know what. He keeps asking, I don't say anything. I think that I'll get up in the morning and act like I cleaned Kylers room, and he won't know. . .” http://www.xanga.com/haven36
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“Bought a bag of green plastic army men for 24 pesos because I thought the smell of the plastic was nostalgic enough. I might be too caught up with the season - I'm not sure, just decided I'd go carefree. For the past years I have been missing the Spirit of Christmas; this time I'm letting go all my worries and constraints or whatever the world says -- just like the way I used to, back when I was a kid...” http://www.xanga.com/desolatebeach
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“Crows go in flocks and wolves in packs, but the lion and the eagle are solitaires.
Strength is not in bluster and noise. Strength is in quietness.”
http://www.xanga.com/Bumblypick
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Comments (6)
Kewl! Thanks for the, err, shameless pumping!
Um. I think I better just end this here.
(Seriously, thanks, and I will be sure to visit the other sites you mentioned as well!) :coolman:
Well, thanks for including me, too! :goodjob:
"Quotation is the art of remembering something important when you have nothing important to say yourself." - Mark Twain.
And, frankly, Mr. Twain, I have no problem with that art form.
Hey Sea Turtle! Thanks for the props man! And yes, that spider was insane!!!
I find it quite nice and helpful in a way. Merry Christmas.
Yee! Haw! LMAO!
That was da bomb. I loved that. But I wish mine had been some deep quote. I never have those though. I leave those to wlfspirit. He's the deep quote guy.
It's a pity about me...
I loved that though (seriously)! And no, I don't think anyone would be offended by that. It's the first time I've seen anyone do that with different people. They've done it with me when I say stupid things. Which are the only things I say and I love it. I think it's hilarious! You should do that every week.
well this was a good idea...i like this....and thanks for including me in the circle of love :heartbeat::heartbeat:
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