tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18318348669951751032011-04-21T13:03:15.532-07:00Lizard Footnoreply@blogger.comBlogger241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1831834866995175103.post-64023595436613540542008-05-15T14:32:00.000-07:002008-05-15T14:39:34.161-07:00

San Francisco ChronicleNY TimesThe Court's decision summaryThis is hitting me much harder than when it happened in Massachusetts. Is it because it is closer (a neighboring state, a western state)? Is it because I'm in a relationship that could eventually become a marriage? Is it because my sister is getting married in a Mormon temple in July?

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by Ellen Bass Pray to whoever you kneel down to: Jesus nailed to his wooden or marble or plastic cross, his suffering face bent to kiss you, Buddha still under the Bo tree in scorching heat, Adonai, Allah, raise your arms to Mary that she may lay her palm on our brows, to Shekinhah, Queen of Heaven and Earth, to Inanna in her stripped descent. Hawk or Wolf, or the Great

Lizard Footnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1831834866995175103.post-72978414462532209662008-03-26T15:39:00.001-07:002008-03-26T15:56:25.578-07:00

Big changes have been working their way through my life. Some of them I don't feel comfortable writing about in a public, if semi-anonymous blog.So instead, I'll write about the mundane:I earned As in both my classes (Econ. and Accounting).After discovering a problem with my brakes during my DIY Auto Maintenance class, I successfully got exactly (and ONLY) what I needed fixed for a reasonable

Lizard Footnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1831834866995175103.post-89967283328284771872008-02-23T12:37:00.000-08:002008-02-23T12:38:22.393-08:00

I changed my own oil and oil filter today!!! I feel so fabulous and powerful.

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Lizard Footnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1831834866995175103.post-1674773641383154062008-02-20T22:06:00.000-08:002008-02-21T22:53:10.429-08:00

I saw a lunar eclipse for the first time in my life. Can you imagine Portland, OR, having a perfectly clear night in February?!!!! It was so freaking cool.Then really good pizza with a friend.Then the best music experience I've had in ages. Tiny venue, maybe 100 people in a converted old house--very Portland. Kym Tuvim--fabulous! Toshi Reagon--OMG I'm completely in love!I can't remember ever

Lizard Footnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1831834866995175103.post-15495167356216484362008-01-31T13:06:00.000-08:002008-01-31T13:07:25.428-08:00

How not to be an asshole: a guide for men (From Chris Clarke)Who is Chris Clarke and how do I clone him?

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The tattoo:The artist:tattooingbymikal.comThe shop:infinitytattoo.comOMG!!!!! I sooooooo want this now. I feel like that bratty girl in Willy Wonka's factory. But really, I'm not being impatient. Seriously. I've known I wanted a sunflower tattoo for 9 years. I'd just never found the right design. God I wish I could win the lottery. I know money doesn't buy happiness, but it'd buy a truly

Lizard Footnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1831834866995175103.post-13030631391791260252007-12-28T10:56:00.000-08:002007-12-28T11:14:21.773-08:00

Benazir Bhutto, the Pakistan opposition leader who was assassinated 12/27/07 Anna Deveare Smith as Cornell WestNOW PBSPodcast 8/11/06I use the language of decline, decay and despair rather than doom, gloom and no possibility. Because I think any talk about despair is not where you end, but where you start. And then the courage and the sacrifice come in, but at the level of hope not optimism.

Lizard Footnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1831834866995175103.post-6970362563190691572007-12-13T16:57:00.000-08:002007-12-13T17:11:16.880-08:00

I was doing alright. Truly.I have been taking my anti-depressant religiously. I have been exercising. I have continued to participate in social activities and go to work.But I'm just fed up this week. I've nearly lost my temper several times picking battles that aren't worth it. I'm pissed all the time. I feel lonely all the time.I want:holiday decorating with friends and familyhomemade

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Lizard Footnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1831834866995175103.post-57706452018087702602007-11-14T16:51:00.000-08:002007-11-14T16:55:17.671-08:00

View from my living room window about a month ago:View during a fall walk through the Jenkins Estate.View from my bathroom of Sam, who loves the bathtub as long as he doesn't get wet.

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I've been hanging out with this little devil......who loves his "pet" dog so much that he shares his pacifier with him......who is studying to become the next big thing to wow the art world......and who cleans up beautifully!

Lizard Footnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1831834866995175103.post-1014433019453637112007-09-27T16:50:00.000-07:002007-09-27T17:01:35.630-07:00

I'm taking an Introduction to Business course through my local community college.Some "gems" from my textbook:What is so amazing about Dudley’s success is that he started a manufacturing business in his own kitchen, with his wife and children serving as the new firm’s only employees. He went on to develop his own line of hair-care products and to open a chain of beauty schools and beauty supply

Lizard Footnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1831834866995175103.post-62912843970768891052007-09-23T19:44:00.000-07:002007-09-23T19:56:44.102-07:00

I'm working on coming out of hibernation. That fact that I have to work at it indicates that I'm still pretty tired at the thought of making nice with anyone. Not that I don't have nice people with whom to make nice. Just, it seems like so much work, ya know?At any rate, I finally made it to Queer Knitting after about a 2.5 month absence. In that time, our regular hang out closed up shop.

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I live my life in growing orbitswhich move out over the things of the world.perhaps I can never achieve the last,but that will be my attempt.I am circling around God, around the ancient tower,and I have been circling for a thousand years,and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm,or a great song.--Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Robert Bly)

Lizard Footnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1831834866995175103.post-78496861557619968462007-09-11T17:20:00.000-07:002008-03-18T10:48:14.176-07:00

The other day my sister E. and I were spending a lovely weekend hour conversing about nothing and everything."You have always had control issues," she said (or something like that). "It's interesting to me because I've never felt the need to have so much control, the way you do.""Do you know about internal vs. external locus of control?" I asked.***The extent to which I feel out of control

Lizard Footnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1831834866995175103.post-5800772447662247832007-09-02T21:12:00.000-07:002007-09-02T21:17:19.675-07:00

His tongue sticks out of his mouth a distance equal to the length of his paw! Where does all that tongue disappear to most of the time? I mean, it's not like Sam just has his tongue hanging off to the side of his mouth all day. He's not a dog, you know. ;-)

Lizard Footnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1831834866995175103.post-42826851830263054982007-08-28T16:48:00.001-07:002007-08-28T16:48:58.573-07:00

It is rare, for meI am whiteI am middle classI am a citizenI am fluent in EnglishI am educatedI am able-bodiedI am able-mindedI am employedMy privileges usually guard meIt is rare--Rare for me to sit on the receiving end of a floodof animosityof fearof angerToday I spoke with a person who poured her animosity, fear, and angerover the phone linesinto my earsinto my heart“You shouldn’t be helping

Lizard Footnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1831834866995175103.post-13854999766776694492007-08-21T16:24:00.000-07:002007-08-21T17:20:42.882-07:00

I'm still escaping my life through fantasy books. On Saturday, I finished The Amber Spyglass and still didn't want to talk to anyone. Nothing on my bookshelves called to me. Instead, I went to Powell's on Hawthorne.I love bookstores where you don't have to talk to anyone and you can stand/sit there and just read. The fourth book of the His Dark Materials series, Lyra's Oxford, is really a

Lizard Footnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1831834866995175103.post-59636315576880647442007-08-17T16:47:00.000-07:002007-08-21T17:21:19.128-07:00

Lizard Footnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1831834866995175103.post-60348689453534292282007-08-13T17:12:00.000-07:002007-08-13T17:25:06.713-07:00

I adored Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. I only own the first book, The Golden Compass, but I lent it to a friend. The second and third books I borrowed from the library. Now, despite my bank account balances which indicate that I should spend no more "extra" money, I'm seriously considering buying the trilogy to re-read them right now.I'm in a re-reading kind of mood these days.

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I met S. this year. She's starting her senior year of high school next month. Her graceful face, framed by her long red hair, is usually tilted slightly to one side. She is thoughtful and kind. She trusts me.We’re having a conversation about religion—or rather about her family’s hop-scotch religious affiliations (all Christian). It feels daring—this talking about religion so openly, so

Lizard Footnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1831834866995175103.post-30642039676405621572007-08-07T18:10:00.000-07:002007-08-07T18:30:28.672-07:00

For $25 at Home Depot, I created my own blocking "wire" kit and blocking boards out of random rods and foam board.This is my first, and likely last, Charlotte's Web Shawl.5 skeins Koigu: 2 purples, 1 pink/orange/purple, 1 blue, 1 green/teal/blueStarted July 2007Finished August 2007I enjoyed knitting her even though I don't think the lace pattern itself is beautiful. I'm annoyed with myself for

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