Ani Fucking Difranco
Current mood: excited
Category: Music

I woke up feeling so alone and depressed today...

But thanks to a great friend, who I don't see enough, I had a ticket to see Ani Difranco.  It's funny how people just pop in and out of your life at just the right time. 

Beth picked me up from work and we rushed over to the Lensic...one of my favorite venues here. 

The pick me up of my day, or maybe even my week, came when she took to the stage and explained to us how she had woken up on the wrong side of the bed today.  She was sick...but got up...made the best of the day...and celebrated her birthday with us. 

I cried inside...it was a deep hurt...and then a release...but I internalized it all.  I wish I just let myself quietly bawl while she played "Both Hands".

I'm so happy and inspired and relieved that there is someone on this planet who speaks the language I do and has the same beliefs about humans needing to just be human...someone that we can all listen to...

Thanks you Ani.  And thank you 1,000x over Beth for bringing me to the show. 

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Autumn
Current mood: creative
Category: Writing and Poetry

The Daytime sky is Crystal Clear
The Evening always Winks
For when the Nighttime comes Around
The Eye of Darkness Blinks

Just a little something I wrote WAY BACK when I was about 12.  But it's still one of my favorite verses.  Think I might get it tattoo'd...

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Never
Current mood: optimistic
Category: Writing and Poetry

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Eternal Friendship
Current mood: anxious
Category: Writing and Poetry

Bear is to her hibernation
As Flutterby is to Spring
And when the sun melts all the snow
Together, they do sing

For Flutterby enjoys the texture
Of Bear's soft and light fur
In turn, Bear enjoys the company
That only in nature, could occur

But Spring and Summer come to pass
As seasons always switch
And Flutterby takes to the air
As Bear's ear begins to twitch

Another Winter rolls around
And the bitter cold sets in
Bear dreams of wings in vibrant color
While she waits for Spring to begin

I used to write religiously from the 2nd grade through highschool.  At about 18, it all came to a screeching halt.  I had poured my miserable heart out some many times...I just couldn't do it anymore.  And, I started to find happiness.  Go figure. 

Anyhow, I've just picked it up again...

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Just Some Verses...
Category: Writing and Poetry

"art is why I get up in the morning
but my definition ends there
and it doesn't seem fair
that I'm living for something I can't even define
there you are right there
in the meantime

I don't want to play for you anymore
show me what you can do
tell me what are you here for
I want my old friends
I want my old face
I want my old mind
fuck this time and place"

If you love Ani, then you know it and where it's from.  Just something I've been relating to as of late.

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Both Hands...

both hands

i am walking
out in the rain
and i am listening to the low moan
of the dial tone again
and i am getting
nowhere with you
and i can't let it go
and i can't get through...
the old woman behind the pink curtains
and the closed door
on the first floor
she's listening through the air shaft
to see how long our swan song can last
and both hands
now use both hands
oh, no don't close your eyes
i am writing
graffiti on your body
i am drawing the story of
how hard we tried
i am watching your chest rise and fall
like the tides of my life,
and the rest of it all
and your bones have been my bedframe
and your flesh has been my pillow
i am waiting for sleep
to offer up the deed
with both hands
in each other's shadows we grew less and less tall
and eventually our theories couldn't explain it all
and i'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall
and when we leave the landlord will come
and paint over it all
and i am walking
out in the rain
and i am listening to the low moan of the dial tone again
and i am getting nowhere with you
and i can't let it go
and i can't get through
so now use both hands
please use both hands
oh, no don't close your eyes
i am writing graffiti on your body
i am drawing the story of how hard we tried
hard we tried
how hard we tried

_Ani Difranco_

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Aluminum
Current mood: sick
Category: Goals, Plans, Hopes

_If you throw away 2 aluminum cans, you waste more energy than 1,000,000,000 (one billion) of the world's poorest people use a day_

Just a thought...

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Local
Current mood: happy
Category: Goals, Plans, Hopes

_One of the simplest steps you can take to help protect the planet is to buy products that are produced in your own community.

Local products reduce the amount of energy that would otherwise be used to transport them long distances. Many of the foods in your typical grocery store have traveled more than 1,000 miles to get there.

Foods that are grown nearby often require fewer pesticides than those that must be prevented from spoiling during cross-country commutes._

http://www.earthshare.org/tips/2007/falltips

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Failure.
Current mood: chipper

We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do.

Samuel Smiles

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Risk.
Current mood: awake
Category: Life

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."

-Benjamin Disraeli

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