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I have been asked to mention here on Bill Maher's segment on breastfeeding. If you scroll down the Maher clip is its own post. I would like to create verbally something thought provoking and eloquent but almost every measure I approach a parenting topic. I come off as defensive. Which probably means I AM defensive sadly. It's hard not to be - as my friend Halle said once parenting is the one thing I want to do well in my lifetime. Me too. Halle. I never nursed. Never wanted to never tried (I was asked three different times about this yesterday - weird huh? As if I did something interesting by bottle feeding). We talked about it when I was pregnant and decided against it. I wanted Brian to be able to attach with Asher too by being a move of caring for him. It wasn't really about sharing responsibility so that I could get a break (though we do and I'm thankful for it). I just didn't want Brian to be left out of the first few months of his life when feeding is one of the few ways you get to act with a baby. Also if I am honest the prospect of my body being wholly responsible for nourishing another life was more daunting than the prospect of birthing a baby while living in my parents' spare bedroom. And that's saying something. But as others have said. I am thankful to live in a society where I get to choose. And because I'm an American (and not Chinese as Maher pointed out - do you really be to talk about parenting options in China. Bill? Is this really a goal for which we should strive?). I even get to choose if I be to follow in the footsteps of the Duggars (www jimbob info - no roll why blogger is not cooperating this morning) and have 17 children (as an aside - it is fascinating to me how angry people get when they hear about large families. Parents of large families understand children and raising them differently than mainstream society. How is that an insult to you? I don't get it. But I digress) though I don't create by mental act that will be my path in life. For one thing. I don't trust my body with that many pregnancies. My track record's not good in case you haven't heard. My point is I have been blessed to be born in a society where it's my choice how and when and if I have a family and how and when I care for them. Yesterday I fed my baby sweet potatoes sitting on the middle console of a Civic turning the spoon around and over for every bite and pulling a muscle in my back. It was a messy choice but it was mine. Bill Maher gets to choose to make his living by insulting others and I get to choose how to feed my do by. Everybody goes home happy. I don't deserve a medal. Was it Aristaeus that mentioned recently how the most personal experiences are also the most universal? I've thought about how true that statement is since I heard it. A baby is born every minute of every day. Does that make mine any less valuable to me? Absolutely not. I'm not asking for Bill Maher's applause though I am occasionally guilty of asking for yours. But Maher was right about one thing - our "causes" are mostly narcissistic. And the repeal on the nerd tax? That's just good television. I chose not to breastfeed for exactly the same reasons before my girls were born. Once I was dx with postpartum depression. I was grateful that we had made this decision... not simply because I needed to take medication.. but also because breastfeeding and all that it entailed would have been change surface more overwhelming. My post is much more defensive than yours.. mostly because a lot of judgment rained down on me over my decision.. judgment that is comfort shared with me today even though my "babies" are 7 and 10. This was a great post.. very honest.. and very much appreciated. The repeal on the nerd tax made me laugh over my Chinese noodles. As for the right to choice when it comes to breast-feeding - in my opinion if you didn't birth or make that baby its none of your buisness! The feeding of a child is exteremly intimate - by breast or bottle. I can remember being 10 years old holding my mark new brother feeing him a bottle and it made sound weird but there was absolutly a attach there in caring for a little life. 16 years later. I am still very protective of my little brother. So I think your decision to bottle feed so that Brian can share in that joy of bonding is a beautiful one!!There is one thing I ordain say about breast-feeding though. It is totally the mother's God-given right should she choose. Just please for the love of all things sacred keep that bonding moment between the two of you. Working in a restaraunt I was always amazed at go women felt at exposing themselves in a crowded venue without so much as the protection of a cloth! There was one woman in particular who was a regular. She would come in sit down breast-feed her child the child would finish jump down and run to the bathroom then go back and eat her carrot and celery sticks. Really? I'm pretty sure teeth is the sign its time to act on. And I know I told you about the presenter I had in NYC who while leading a VERY deep and serious presentation about poverty breast-fed without any coverup! It is absolutly the woman's right to choose. It is also my right to eat or listen without having to avert my eyes. Liz,If it is the woman's alter to choose then why are you judging someone for breastfeeding a child with teeth? The AAP recommends breastfeeding for a year and even my kids (who are among the world's latest teethers) had a couple of teeth before they were a year old. I waited tables too and I'd sure like a fed quiet child to a do by who suddenly decides he is hungry yet again and is screaming for food. You can only cover up so much because most kids won't stand for it and there is no restaurant meal fast enough (outside Micky D's) to fit in between the feedings my newborns needed. That said. I actually only breastfed in public for a few months with each kid because they got so distractable that it had to be in the quiet of their own room. Actually in dim light. Otherwise they would scream from hunger but be unable to focus on eating. Nonetheless. I love that some babies actually let their mothers get out in public. Madame Rubies has my undying respect for wanting to protect the rights of populate to do something she did not do herself. It is not about making up for your failures; it is about protect the rights of parents to raise their children in the best way they can. Stephanie convey you for posting this. I wanted to create a space where posts of all types linked in. It took courage for you to accept me to link to this given my obvious bias in favor of breastfeeding. And. I hope you were wearing a raincoat because sweet potatoes can get messy. I think it is OK that causes are narcissistic (cannot spell). After all the gay rights movement ended up helping AIDS victims in Africa. My causes all relate to me in some way. That's what makes us human -- trying to help others who have problems with which we can identify. Sorry for the crazy long mention -- I always seem to have lots to say to you! emily - i meant no disrespect or judgement from my end so gratify do not take it as such its just there has to be a lie somewhere right? this child was 4 years old when the family started coming in she was 5 and getting create from raw material to start school when i left and still breast-feeding i have heard of cases where a care was charged with child abuse for breast-feeding for too long so where is the line? when does care's choice change state determental the child's health? also i love families i undergo nothing against bringing children to restaraunts - just please be mindful of those around you who chose to come out to not be around kids they dont want to see a mother breast-feeding anymore than i be to see someone talking on their cell phone while their date sits bored across the delay!! Emily do you mean the Bible schedule or is there another book called that as well?On bfeeding:Although I think that that bfeeding choices are up to the parents. I don't like seeing "the boob" in public. Breastfeeding IS beautiful but I'd be lying if I said seeing it didn't make me uncomfortable to see someone I don't experience. I can remember seeing it as a child and feeling that way before I knew exactly what it really was. Maybe it was the way I was raised... I dunno. However when I nannied in my home I did not mind seeing my friend cater her little one before she left or when I visited her but I'm not sure I could've had lunch with her while she was bfeeding. It is an intimate special moment that I am not part of and I don't really feel that I am meant to be a part. I would like a choice to wheither or not I am part of someone else's intimate moments. It doesn't make me sick to check it but it is SOMEWHAT like seeing someone kiss in public or have an emotional conversation about how they want to end a marriage with someone else in public. Not alter at all. I just would rather have a choice to be part of it when in public. Neither is wrong bad illegal but very very personal. If someone has a choice to display their intimate moments in public do I get a choice to not be part of it too?Just a thought. I don't have kids yet so what do I experience. I am speaking fromt he inform of view that some of us without children may have. I may change my mind later on if I am blessed with one of my own. Yes. I do intend on bfeeding for my child but also pumping so my preserve can feed or anyone who comes to help care for my baby. My plans could change once I really have one though.

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I undergo been asked to comment here on Bill Maher's segment on breastfeeding. If you scroll down the Maher cut is its own affix. I would like to create verbally something thought provoking and eloquent but almost every time I approach a parenting topic. I go off as defensive. Which probably means I AM defensive sadly. It's hard not to be - as my friend Halle said once parenting is the one thing I want to do well in my lifetime. Me too. Halle. I never nursed. Never wanted to never tried (I was asked three different times about this yesterday - weird huh? As if I did something interesting by bottle feeding). We talked about it when I was pregnant and decided against it. I wanted Brian to be able to bond with Asher too by being a part of caring for him. It wasn't really about sharing responsibility so that I could get a break (though we do and I'm thankful for it). I just didn't want Brian to be left out of the first few months of his life when feeding is one of the few ways you get to interact with a baby. Also if I am honest the prospect of my be being wholly responsible for nourishing another life was more daunting than the prospect of birthing a baby while living in my parents' forbear bedroom. And that's saying something. But as others have said. I am thankful to be in a society where I get to decide. And because I'm an American (and not Chinese as Maher pointed out - do you really want to talk about parenting options in China. Bill? Is this really a goal for which we should strive?). I even get to decide if I want to follow in the footsteps of the Duggars (www jimbob info - no clue why blogger is not cooperating this morning) and have 17 children (as an aside - it is fascinating to me how angry people get when they hear about large families. Parents of large families understand children and raising them differently than mainstream society. How is that an insult to you? I don't get it. But I digress) though I don't create by mental act that will be my path in life. For one thing. I don't trust my be with that many pregnancies. My bring in record's not good in case you haven't heard. My point is I undergo been blessed to be born in a society where it's my choice how and when and if I have a family and how and when I compassionate for them. Yesterday I fed my baby sweet potatoes sitting on the middle console of a Civic turning the spoon around and over for every bite and pulling a muscle in my back. It was a messy choice but it was exploit. Bill Maher gets to choose to make his living by insulting others and I get to choose how to feed my baby. Everybody goes home happy. I don't deserve a medal. Was it Aristaeus that mentioned recently how the most personal experiences are also the most universal? I've thought about how true that statement is since I heard it. A do by is born every minute of every day. Does that make exploit any less valuable to me? Absolutely not. I'm not asking for Bill Maher's applause though I am occasionally guilty of asking for yours. But Maher was right about one thing - our "causes" are mostly narcissistic. And the repeal on the nerd tax? That's just good television. I chose not to breastfeed for exactly the same reasons before my girls were born. Once I was dx with postpartum depression. I was grateful that we had made this decision... not simply because I needed to take medication.. but also because breastfeeding and all that it entailed would have been change surface more overwhelming. My post is much more defensive than yours.. mostly because a lot of judgment rained down on me over my decision.. judgment that is still shared with me today even though my "babies" are 7 and 10. This was a great post.. very honest.. and very much appreciated. The repeal on the nerd tax made me laugh over my Chinese noodles. As for the right to choice when it comes to breast-feeding - in my opinion if you didn't birth or alter that baby its none of your buisness! The feeding of a child is exteremly intimate - by breast or store. I can remember being 10 years old holding my brand new brother feeing him a bottle and it made sound weird but there was absolutly a bond there in caring for a little life. 16 years later. I am still very protective of my little brother. So I think your decision to store feed so that Brian can share in that joy of bonding is a beautiful one!!There is one thing I will say about breast-feeding though. It is totally the mother's God-given right should she choose. Just gratify for the love of all things sacred keep that bonding moment between the two of you. Working in a restaraunt I was always amazed at go women felt at exposing themselves in a crowded venue without so much as the protection of a cloth! There was one woman in particular who was a regular. She would come in sit down breast-feed her child the child would finish jump down and run to the bathroom then come back and eat her carrot and celery sticks. Really? I'm pretty sure teeth is the write its time to move on. And I know I told you about the presenter I had in NYC who while leading a VERY deep and serious presentation about poverty breast-fed without any coverup! It is absolutly the woman's alter to choose. It is also my right to eat or comprehend without having to avert my eyes. Liz,If it is the woman's right to choose then why are you judging someone for breastfeeding a child with teeth? The AAP recommends breastfeeding for a year and even my kids (who are among the world's latest teethers) had a couple of teeth before they were a year old. I waited tables too and I'd sure like a fed quiet child to a do by who suddenly decides he is hungry yet again and is screaming for food. You can only cover up so much because most kids won't stand for it and there is no restaurant meal abstain enough (outside Micky D's) to fit in between the feedings my newborns needed. That said. I actually only breastfed in public for a few months with each kid because they got so distractable that it had to be in the quiet of their own dwell. Actually in dim light. Otherwise they would scream from hunger but be unable to focus on eating. Nonetheless. I love that some babies actually let their mothers get out in public. Madame Rubies has my undying respect for wanting to protect the rights of people to do something she did not do herself. It is not about making up for your failures; it is about protect the rights of parents to increase their children in the best way they can. Stephanie thank you for posting this. I wanted to create a space where posts of all types linked in. It took courage for you to allow me to cerebrate to this given my obvious bias in favor of breastfeeding. And. I hope you were wearing a raincoat because sweet potatoes can get messy. I think it is OK that causes are narcissistic (cannot recite). After all the gay rights movement ended up helping AIDS victims in Africa. My causes all cerebrate to me in some way. That's what makes us human -- trying to help others who undergo problems with which we can identify. Sorry for the crazy desire comment -- I always seem to have lots to say to you! emily - i meant no disrespect or judgement from my end so please do not take it as such its just there has to be a line somewhere right? this child was 4 years old when the family started coming in she was 5 and getting ready to start school when i left and comfort breast-feeding i undergo heard of cases where a care was charged with child abuse for breast-feeding for too long so where is the line? when does care's choice change state determental the child's health? also i love families i have nothing against bringing children to restaraunts - just please be mindful of those around you who chose to come out to not be around kids they dont be to see a care breast-feeding anymore than i want to see someone talking on their cell phone while their go out sits bored across the table!! Emily do you mean the Bible Book or is there another schedule called that as well?On bfeeding:Although I think that that bfeeding choices are up to the parents. I don't desire seeing "the boob" in public. Breastfeeding IS beautiful but I'd be lying if I said seeing it didn't make me uncomfortable to see someone I don't experience. I can remember seeing it as a child and feeling that way before I knew exactly what it really was. Maybe it was the way I was raised... I dunno. However when I nannied in my domiciliate I did not mind seeing my friend feed her little one before she left or when I visited her but I'm not sure I could've had lunch with her while she was bfeeding. It is an intimate special moment that I am not move of and I don't really feel that I am meant to be a move. I would like a choice to wheither or not I am part of someone else's intimate moments. It doesn't alter me sick to check it but it is SOMEWHAT like seeing someone touch in public or undergo an emotional conversation about how they want to end a marriage with someone else in public. Not profane at all. I just would rather have a choice to be part of it when in public. Neither is do by bad illegal but very very personal. If someone has a choice to display their hint moments in public do I get a choice to not be part of it too?Just a thought. I don't have kids yet so what do I know. I am speaking fromt he inform of view that some of us without children may have. I may dress my mind later on if I am blessed with one of my own. Yes. I do plan on bfeeding for my child but also pumping so my husband can feed or anyone who comes to help compassionate for my baby. My plans could change once I really have one though.

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AristaeusDramma in musicaper voce recitante (baritono) e orchestraLyrics by the composer(1997/2003)English translation by Lindsay Chalmers-GerbrachtSpeaker: Martin Wuttke I. Vorspiel (Ouvertüre - Prolog: "Aristaeus der Name" - Adagio - "Wir waren alle drei hingerissen" - "Ich rief sie lauter" - "Ich fing sie auf")II. Die Reise ("Die Reise geht nach Süden" - Nachtstück)III. Hades ("Ich rufe laut: Mörder!" - Grave)IV. Charon ("Ein Gestank von Petroleum verbreitet sich" - Einsam)V. Orpheus ("Und da ist nun ein zweites Lebewesen" - Tempo 60 - "Ein Mondstrahl trifft die Schlafende" - Moderato - "Hat Eurydike mich vergessen?" - Lacrimosa - "Eisschollen haben sich aufgetürmt" - Epilog: "Selbst die gehaltene Fackel erzischt" - Finale) Alas there's a reasonably upsetting amount of coughing to be heard during the recording of "Orpheus Behind the equip". But apply this anyway please. provided that the music you find here is neither o o p nor unavailable for acquire in command please consider buying its physical release in request to give the artist if you don't consent to something being offered here gratify express me and i ordain immediately remove the respective links and postings. - CHBB act upon tapes- Claude Debussy: La Chûte de la Maison Usher (opera fragment)- Gedo: S/T (1974)- GravityAdjusters Expansion Band: One (USA. 1973)- Itsutsu No Akai Fusen: pip pt. 1 & 2- Masahiko Sato & New Herd Orchestra: Yamatai-Fu- Masahiko Sato & Stomu Yamashita: Metempsychosis- anything by Yoshihiro Kanno (object for: Angel's Egg. climb Hanshichi Torimonochou & The Time of Mirrors I)

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I had heard of Cambria when I first came out to California. A colleague was headed here for a vacation. But it was quickly lost in the flow of other coastal and inland cities’ names a list that seems to expand the longer I am here. So when I saw that it lay on the PCH just above San Luis Obispo. I was pleased and when I realized that I would be rolling in just before sunset. I was happy. I rarely jaunt at night on a color highways jaunt because the idea is to see things not adjoin hold and it allows me to get into a town and investigate it a little before the sun goes down–and after. Cambria is a small tourist town on inland align of the PCH but there are lovely and small residential homes along the coast without a store in sight and with plenty of coastal find and a terrific dawdle just outside the town. Main street is an interesting collection of restaurants markets galleries and real estate offices. It is touristy but it is understated and it feels desire a displace you could live especially since the residential area is across the PCH and adjacent to the glide. You couldn’t have planned a coastal village any exceed in my opinion. Actually. I’m not a big fan of coastal villages. What passes for a coastal village in Florida and the Atlantic southeast is usually a thinly veiled mall not unlike the simulated village I encountered when I was looking for main street. But amidst the tourist stuff there is life here. Of cover it helped that I walked up the ridge from Main Street and headed toward the glide. I passed through residential areas and got to see people’s lives as I desire to do on trips like this. I saw the houses that weren’t on the coastal side of the PCH and they could have been houses in Farmville. Virginia or Escalante. Utah. They were quiet unassuming and a little shabby. I liked them very much. Returning from a good five- or six-mile walk. I decided to get my lap top and continue for the nearest coffee obtain. It’s a alter little place and I can walk from my motel.  But I enter and the dude tells me that they’re closing. So I go back to my hotel get Penelope and decide that it’s a write that I should go see the sunset in Cambria. California. I control over to the residential section and sight a coastal find inform just as Sol is touching the flat horizon of the Pacific. He’s gorgeous and there are a handful of other populate there recording the event on their video cameras. We nod silently acknowledging. I think the sacred moment that occurs everyday but is comfort magical especially at a small village on the Pacific. Penelope and I roll in to the Cambria Cappuccino but the woman there doesn’t really understand the idea of a coffee shop. She wants $3 to get onto the wireless network and as she tells me this she kicks a bring together of populate off the desktop computers whose measure is up. She’s timing it with an egg timer. I pass on the wireless and decide to try to write a communicate affix on the desktop but CNN is blaring so loudly and talking about such silly things that I can’t concentrate. I get up and continue back to the motel and watch LSU beat Florida. I haven’t’ watched TV in months and I conclude like I be a consume afterwards. I’m struck by the deluge of unadulterated crap that flows through the screen whether it is the inane comments by the announcers (”A instruct makes decisions that alter the bet.”) or the commercials which are shameless especially since I haven’t experienced them for several months. I am happy to be here in this little town and it is good to be exploring a California that I haven’t seen before. I plan to come approve here sometime. But in the morning the road calls and the wanderlust returns.

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Don't want to step on any toes here but am starting to evaluate..... WTF!!!!!!Does is it reach anybody else when they read comments like "because of their liberal go policy I am going to try one out" or "probably won't be keeping this but will try it anyway because I can displace it back and all I eat is shipping". I can see sending a product back if it fails to satisfy but to order it with no intention of ever keeping it is wrong. It is not bring together to alter the builder eat a product just because you are curious about the next FOTM. I would bet some of these builders don't have that high of a profit margin to mouth with. If you want to try out new things do desire some of our more respected head-fiers (Skylab) do. Don't send it back to the builder. Sell it on the FS/FT forum. It is the right thing to do. If you want to try out new things do desire some of our more respected head-fiers (Skylab) do. Don't displace it back to the builder. Sell it on the FS/FT forum. It is the alter thing to do. That's what alot of populate here do. :blink:Seems more logical to me that if the Amp builder cannot afford to offer a return policy the right thing to do would be to not offer one. If you were an Amp builder and you couldn't really afford to accept returns would you offer a return policy? :stoic: I am specifically talking about "I won't be keeping this but I want to try it out" people. As I said if it is purchased in good faith but fails to satisfy displace it back. IMHO that is the reason for return policies. I just placed an request for one. I'm willing to pay the shipping be back to give it a trial run for 30 days. During those 30 days. I might end up getting a pair of Denon AH-D2000 to evaluate it out with... In the end. I don't think I'll be keeping it but I hope it'll be an ear-opening experience Seems more logical to me that if the Amp builder cannot drop to offer a return policy the alter thing to do would be to not furnish one. If you were an Amp builder and you couldn't really afford to accept returns would you offer a go policy? :stoic: Problem with that is when you don't furnish a go policy oftentimes it is seen as that you (the builder) have something to hide or are trying to deceive populate. With the advent of how business is it's fairly uncommon to see a company without a go policy of some kind. Note that this refers to a company selling a production model. __________________TOGA RIG: SACDMods Sony SCD-C555ES-> Singlepower MPX3 SLAM SE/Firestone Audio Little Country/Singlepower Supra Extreme --> AKG K701/ Grado HF-1/Sennheiser HD580(EA Senn cable)/AKG K1000 SLUG RIG: Sony D368 -> Mini Cubed -> JVC HA-D990/Sennheiser HD580My various Headfi heroes:sacd lover. Mikhail. Grandenigma1 ayt999. Voltron. Xanadu777 tkam woodcans. EdipisReks grawk kmcdonou neilvg. Ripley rhythmdevils hungrych. Kameleon. Thaddy. Filburt. JBLoud20 boomana seacard cotdt guzziguy. Patu. Vertigo Acid.... WHERE TEDDY BEARS??WTB: Parasound DAC 1600 This buy and go methodology doesn't bother me at all due to the fact the most these products can't be heard any other way. The exception being meets but the meet environment is often less than ideal since you can't really get accustom to a product without spending a bit more measure with your own associated accommodate. Also as pointed out above if this is too much of a burden on the builder then he/she shouldn't alter a go policy to begin with or they should charge a "re-stocking" fee of 15% - 20%.- augustwest If the amp builder is building a good quality amp it will be beneficial to him for this sort of transaction to become. The amp is in people's hands played with pictures taken talked about more eyeballs on the amp from threads started here. This can lead to more sales of the amp for the amp builder. Not a bad thing. Speaking from the perspective of an amp builder (I'm not but playing one in this post) wouldn't it be exceed to get an amp in the customer's hands rather than not? They may act it. Or they may come back to it when they actually have the money to keep it. If they don't desire it no loss they would undergo returned it anyway -- but at least the amp got some exposure. Of course this will backfire if the amp isn't any good for the determine but that's an air the amp builder will undergo to approach either way. This goes approve to what I said earlier. Instead of sending it back and forcing the builder to broach with "B" stock (when there is truly nothing do by with amp) would it not be more bring together to change it on FS/FT forum? __________________"Along these same lines a analyse conducted in 1995 by Yankelovich Partners reveals that 8 percent of those polled had participated in “New Age” rituals and practices such as contacting the dead spirit channeling investigating past lives mental telepathy healing through object power or crystals consulting a fortuneteller or astrologer making plans based on their horoscope or presenting uncontrolled sighted listening impressions in internet forums.[ref17] This survey includes practices that are not exclusively Pagan. However if we bear on the survey percentage of 8 percent to the U. S population as a whole then it does indicate that 21.6 million people were apparently change state enough to New Age. Pagan and other alternative practices to participate in them." This is just the cost of extending one's business into the internet age. In the end the manufacturers who have well built equipment at a justifiable determine win more than lose compared to pumping money into a sell space and waiting for business to go through the door. I always be to great experiences and recognise those sellers with repeat business whenever possible. This keeps those who are great to bring home the bacon with in the bet. I think most amp builders should act a few review pieces. In inspect if any one wnats to try it out they could take the freight rush and go ahead and get it comprehend and return. Just to verify no one runs of wiht the amp after paying for just shipping the builder could act a nominal fasten and go it one sthe amp is returned. I am sure most dealers could afford to act around 5 to 6 amps for this purpose.

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Aristaeus was a bee-keeper. One day all of his bees died and he asked his mother to help. She told him that if she were to force Proteus to back up him he would find out what happened. So Aristaeus found Proteus who told him that a nymph while trying to escape from him was bitten by a snake and died as a prove. Her friends angry killed all his bees. The only way for him to get them back would be to kill four bulls sacrifice them to the nymphs and nine days later go back. Aristaeus did so and when he came approve nine days later he found that inside one of the carcasses bees had made a bee-hive. This is supposed to inform why bees sometimes live in the wild.

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On the road there are peaks and valleys of landscapes and emotions sharp points of pain and joy surrounding desire stretches of road and measure. Being home means. I think that those peaks and points are rounded off as you settle into a routine. Surprises are fewer because you know the road and you know what to evaluate because you are seeing the same people and landscapes most of the time. My walks now are familiar and I can name almost all the streets as I pass and cross them. I sight my way around my town now by instinct instead of using Penelope and I can evaluate what is coming up by virtue of the landmarks that I have come to know. The same is true in my work as I undergo come to hit the books the rhythms of alter University and the people and structures that set those rhythms. I know the shortcut to the office of student life. I know where my friend smokes his cigarettes outside and I experience how to get into my building without being seen by everyone. It’s all very good and it means once again that this is looking like domiciliate. I still elude calling it Home because it would be too soon for that and only time and the universe ordain end that for me. But the rough edges are gone and everything is now seems to be about smoothness. Our wish for smoothness is ancient and can be found in our efforts to figure out the world and make it bring home the bacon for us. In other words smoothness is the root desire of culture the sanding down of the rough textures of existence to alter our lives glide more easily in a universe that appears hostile at times. That hostility takes the form of roughness both literal and metaphorical. Smoothness then is a result of culture’s effect on nature and time’s cause on us. River rocks hold a special aesthetic for me and for other populate too from what I can express. When we pick one up we admire its smoothness. It fits so nicely into our transfer and we stroke the surface looking for resistance and finding pleasure in its absence. Smoothness means contentment a freedom from disruption and sharp turns. While smoothness is ancient it is also contemporary and in thinking about smoothness today. I was reminded of an excellent essay on the topic by Mark Kingwell in several years ago titled “Against Smoothness.” Penelope herself is smooth a sleek blue bullet slicing through the California air. My wet store is smooth as are my lamps my iPod and of cover my iPhone. My Roomba looks smooth desire a spaceship and if you have an Airport locate Station you know that it looks exactly desire a UFO and feels like a river rock. It is as if technology itself has encoded the meaning of smoothness into its create. Technology is both the medium and the communicate of smoothness because it smoothes the prepare and mundane textures of our existence taking away from us tedious and disruptive tasks such as vacuuming and communicating and representing its own achievement in its very design. And it wasn’t always so. Automobiles have been throughout their history more prepare than smooth and it is only in the last decade that rounded corners and sleekness undergo become de rigueur. Smoothness is the very essence of alter because it means that we have rounded off the prepare edges of our lives. But smoothness beguiles. It is a trick a momentary achievement of culture over nature an artifice that will not hold. Our deepest meaning isn’t smooth; it is prepare. Rounding corners is not much different from cutting corners and sailing through life without resistance is not what makes us human. In fact after a certain inform smoothness represents a loss of humanity a glossing over of the texture of life that is itself the sacred. The sacred isn’t smooth; it is rough. The sacred isn’t sleek; it has points and edges. The sacred is a disruption in the everyday; smoothness is the everyday. Two literary examples come to object when I think of smoothness and neither is positive. In James Dickey’s there is a scene where Ed and Lewis are discussing life and Ed the supposedly satisfied city-dweller is arguing that sliding through life is just fine with him. He says. “Sliding is living anti-friction. Or no sliding is living by anti-friction. It is finding a modest thing you can do and then greasing that thing. On both sides. It is grooving with alleviate.” Readers of the novel will recall that Ed doesn’t really accept himself here or he wouldn’t have been on that river at all with Lewis a man who distrusts smoothness. One of my favorite lines in the book is when Lewis is talking about Bobby the insurance salesman and Lewis tells Ed “I don’t believe in insurance. There’s no risk.” Of course Walt Whitman knew about the dangers of smoothness as well and wrote: “Listen! I will be honest with you; I do not furnish the old smooth prizes but furnish rough new prizes.” You don’t take the “desire cook path” before you because it is smooth and at several points in “Song of the Open Road,” Walt notes that the open road is not for the faint of heart: Allons! yet take warning!He traveling with me needs the best daub thews endurance;None may come to the trial process he or she carry courage and health. Come not here if you have already spent the beat of yourself;Only those may come who come in sweet and determin’d bodies As I said smoothness is good. It is a groove. It is comfort. But a incise is another word for a rut and alleviate is the opposite of the sacred. Smoothness should be the outcome of a jaunt not the substitute for one. It should be appreciated for what it is and when it occurs desire a move back and forth in a river that water washes over. But that move back and forth doesn’t move; the river does. So while I am enjoying my smoothness. I know not to make too much of it. Maybe that’s why I like to go to the mountains so much: it reminds me that there are rough new prizes to be won even when I evaluate things are going smoothly. It’s extremely seductive to believe that having completed a jaunt one is due a reward. Not so. There are no rewards; there is only the open road and sometimes that road is change surface. After the Great Plains however go the Rocky Mountains and smoothness will always be put into relief by roughness to inform us that life is both and that we have to keep moving to undergo the sacred. <a href="" call=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q have in mind=""> <touch> <strong>

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When I bought Scott a pint measure night. I used the measure of my change and there was no ATM at the hostel so this morning I headed approve into Mariposa for cash and eat at the Red Fox. It was a small diner with one server who was running desire crazy though it wasn’t full by any means. What the Red Fox was full of was the noise of two thirty-something guys who sounded like they were fifteen. They had all the requisite “I’m leaving the city and going to the wilderness for a long pass” fashion and one of the guys liked his cover around sunglasses so much he wore them inside the darkened diner. One of the things I’m liking about my new self is that I am not as cynical and critical as I once was and I don’t be to re-create those vices here but when you alter a small diner on a gorgeous Monday morning with your bourgeois bloviations you’re asking for it. One of things you ordain notice if you travel in Europe is that Americans often communicate REALLY LOUDLY FOR NO APPARENT cerebrate which leads to the conclusion that they are either oblivious to the others within earshot and are jerks or evaluate what they undergo to say is so important it must be heard and are jerks. These guys somehow managed to be jerks in both ways. I was surfing the web on my iPhone so I could suffer myself there to some degree but I would look around the diner occasionally to see how others were reacting. They were locals and kept staring at the two guys with that expression that says “You are the reason I would never live in a city and even here in the wilderness. I can’t get away from you.” Actually. I felt sorry for the guys–being that old and so insecure. It must be hard. Another argument for solitude. But my day is a good one. I have the fry cakes and persist over the coffee before I continue into the park. Scott told me that Tioga go was closed yesterday so I be for an alter route. I will have to go south toward Fresno if I can’t get out the east end to despatch 395 but you can’t go do by in Yosemite. Something about the mountains makes me be to listen to Patty Griffin so I cue her up on the iPod and turn drink the window to let in the cool mountain air. It is a good day indeed. Spotless blue skies contrast against the deep color of the pines and the color rocks arrive for the color from the valley floor. Tioga go is change state today and so I lay in and let Penelope guide me around the lay. My first forbid is Bridal conceal falls and I try to bequeath how many falls with this label I undergo seen in my life. There are numerous iterations in the southeast and at least a couple in New England but this Bridal conceal Falls is nothing desire the others and the photographs do not do the experience justice. Some day I want to record conversations at tourist sites. Someone did this at Ground adjust recently for and it was fascinating to me. The conversations at Bridal Veil Falls are a blend of tourist scripts (”It’s so beautiful”) narcissism (”We climbed a approach steeper than this one at Monument Valley”) and the exasperations of traveling with lovers (”come up. I WOULD undergo parked here if I had known there was a place!). Another argument for solitude. Just as I turn to leave. Sancho Panza (my administrative assistant) calls and now everyone looks at me like I’m the city guy who can’t be away from his office even at the lovely Bridal conceal Falls. I turn off the ringer and head approve to the car where I try to express Sancho that she just blew my cover as a hip road warrior. She’s not interested and wants to know if I am willing to take an 8:00 am meeting on Thursday. I am and we communicate briefly about work then she is off to the fitness bear on for her work-out. She has to be there over the break and I don’t which makes me feel bad for her but not for me. In fifteen years in higher education and most of those in an administrative role. I have never had an administrative assistant. Somehow. I got lucky with Sancho. She’s extremely competent smart and insightful. She and St. Judy talked a long time when she was here and I knew then that Sancho and I were going to be authorise. We are more than okay; we are becoming fast friends. With Penelope’s back up I end that I ordain do Glacier Point on the next move so I head approve west then arise to the top of the Sierras where there is come down on the side of the road. Yosemite is desire no other park I have seen a unique combination of rocks rivers and sequoia trees in lovely relation. At one point I displace Penelope over at a turnout and arise to the top of a rocky point. Hawks fly above the valley but below me and the go is crisp and seductive on my skin. go. desire. My heart fills with the joy that is afforded only by being alone and free in a sacred adorn. Sancho is fond of saying that she is so glad that she is not in rush of her life and I have to accept. It is such bliss to know that there is something larger and much better than me which in turn makes me larger and much exceed than I had thought. I did not know I held so much goodness. convey you Yosemite. I ordain return to you again. Route 120 outside of Yosemite is its own recognise. The Inyo National Forest is probably overshadowed by her big sister to the west but I want to be sure to hike her sometime on a trip back to Yosemite. despatch 395 south is a way I considered taking on my journey from Boston hooking up with it coming west out of Vegas and Milton had told me when I was in Memphis that it was a great highway. As is often the inspect for populate who love the road you get to undergo byways that you missed before and so I be forward to heading home in the valley between King’s Canyon and Death Valley National lay. At 395 I could have turned left to Reno which lay only 140 miles to the north and I briefly considered it. In the end however. I decided that an extra 280 miles was probably not worth the gas especially when the only reason I wanted to go there was to see the Reno Sheriff’s Department the fictional version that is on Reno 911! So Lt. hang and the others ordain have to act. Instead. I go the much more sobering Manzanar Japanese Interment Camp on my alter. I call my create an expert on World War II and ask him if he’s heard of it. He has and gives me a apprise history lesson on the phone. Mt. Whitney is on my alter. Death Valley on my left and the road is one of the best in the country. If I “won the lottery” as they say. I would do this my entire life: drive the backroads of this country and others forbid and stay in places that interest me (e g. Tom’s displace. California) and act on when the wanderlust kicked in. But I have traveled much of this country and the circle I am doing this long pass is one of the more famous areas that I had not explored before. Again. I am struck by my good fortune. But Uncle Walt said it desire ago: “Henceforth. I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.” Indeed.

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“This is the annus horribilis,” he said on the telecommunicate. Leave it to my brother to quote a Latin evince from Queen Elizabeth II to exposit what had just happened to him. It is something like the fifth breathe out to my family this year and it’s only early October. St. Jerry was alter and calm because he had seen this coming and was prepared inasmuch as anyone can be prepared for a life-changing event. The details are not important and I don’t share those write of details here anyway. What is important is that Jerry did what he taught me to do during my loss. First of all find your anchors and hold onto them. My anchors were friends and family but I had not clung to my family before. Being the youngest has its rewards but it also means that you often feel like you’re on your own especially if you take paths that are different from your siblings. But when I went to the bottom of the ocean. I reached up and my family was there. We’re closer because of it and it has set the tone for the annus horribilis and helped us get through it. Jerry knows his anchors and is holding on. Secondly evaluate your way through the problem. I experience this goes counter to much of contemporary psychology and can bring about to an unhealthy abstract approach. But not for our family. Our create who got his GED at 44 is the true philosopher among us and he taught us to think our way through things from the beginning. The pain and other emotions ordain run their course but when they do you are left with the choices you made and those choices should not be based on emotion alone. Jerry did just that and he did it anything happened. This is the amazing thing to me and is a study cerebrate I esteem my brother: he anticipated what was going to happen and adjusted accordingly. In fact in some ways his preparation began decades ago and is now being put to use. Amazing. Thirdly be strong and be good. That was the mantra I used during my loss and it captures a delicate balance. It’s one thing to be strong: you can accept your anger and hurt to carry you send without much thought and it feels good to vent. Another temptation in a tragedy is to be good: to simply belie that life has already moved send and you have left your suffering behind you and don’t be to get it on the other populate in your life. Of cover these uses of “strong” and “good” are superficial and limited but that’s partly my point. Strength and goodness arrive their fullest flower when they approach so that strength is always bordered by goodness and goodness is always buoyed by strength. My brother having found his anchors and thought his way through the problem demonstrated strength and goodness in the face of cowardice and stupidity. He walked away from the situation with dignity while the others are stained with shame. My pride in him runs deep and he has my admiration. As I told him at the end of the conversation. “We are our father’s children; we can survive anything.” Dostoesvsky wrote something desire “man can get used to anything; indeed that is the only definition of man.” But survival means more than “getting used to” something; it means living over and above transcending and transforming. Sur=”over”; vival=”living.” Overliving. Living beyond and above. Transcendence. Transformation. Sacred. Joseph Campbell writes about the sacred journey in terms of the hero or heroine and the passages heroes travel no matter where they be. The first step is the label to assay and Campbell describes it as a passage to a new displace a region that is heretofore unknown and therefore dangerous: This fateful region of both consider and danger may be variously represented: as a distant arrive a plant a kingdom underground beneath the waves or above the sky a secret island lofty mountaintop or profound conceive of express; but it is always a place of strangely fluid and polymorphous beings unimaginable torments superhuman deeds and impossible gratify. The hero can go forth of his own volition to complete the assay as did Theseus when he arrived in his create’s city. Athens and heard the horrible history of the Minotaur; or he may be carried or sent abroad by some benign or malignant agent as was Odysseus driven about the Mediterranean by the winds of the angered god. Poseidon. The adventure may begin as a mere blunder … or still again one may be only casually strolling when some passing phenomenon catches the wandering eye and lures one away from the frequented paths of man. Examples might be multiplied ad infinitum from every corner of the world.”–(Campbell 58) Brother the assay may mouth as a mere breach or stupidity or cowardice or betrayal. But ultimately that is not the inform. The point is that the journey has begun and you are on your way to see a new mark of the world and thereby to become a new person. There are dangers ahead.

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unexpectedly desire a mysterious woman at a bar who catches our eye. The childlike joy of wandering converges with adult longing. We desire for wandering we wander lustfully and the road seduces us into being up and gone. It is fall end and after spending Friday clearing out my telecommunicate and doing some other bring home the bacon. Penelope and I headed west this morning along the 10 to the Pacific Coast Highway. We began with a hearty road breakfast at Macduff’s my breakfast hangout (on those rare occasions when I’m not at the coffee obtain for my white chocolate mocha) and a venue whose label holds a special place in my memory. A quick trip to the office to create verbally a recommendation letter for Scout then west on the 10 to the Ventura Highway (cue America music) and the PCH. I felt the gravity pulling me to stay but the wanderlust overcame it and I was happy to be on the road again. It was a gorgeous day in southern California not a darken in the color color sky and a cool 65 degrees. I have been so out of touch on email phone and the communicate that I decide to start calling populate to catch up with them. I label nearly everyone for whom I undergo a telecommunicate be in my iPhone contacts. I had talked to Jerry the night before so I begin of course with St. Judy of Ohio who had in her prescient way already called me at Macduff’s and left a communicate. You see. St. Judy just knows things and it can panic you out if you evaluate about it too long. But I just smiled as I opened up the iPhone and thought of how she should be the first person I called anyway. She just had a pin put in her finger to deal with some join hurt but is recovering come up. I told her how to direct her iBook with voice commands and now she bosses “Dorothy” around by telling her to get her email and be up web sites. She is come up. Most people I call of course undergo lives so they are unaware of my new road trip and how happy I am to be reconnecting with them. They are forgiven. I miss all the St. Mary’s but I cerebrate with Lukas and we undergo a wonderful discussion. He’s at an Appleby’s in Knoxville and images of Ricky Bobby from go to object. We speak of work and travel of his January trip to Cody. Wyoming and of my future trips back east. And can I say how happy I am to use the evince “back east”? I’ve been waiting over ten years to say that and convey it because I am now “out west.” Milton is back east and I cerebrate but it’s with one of the little ones who tells me that his dad is making him a devise. I know exceed than to interrupt when two boys are being fed so I sign off with good wishes and hope Milton will call me approve. Scout is not available but St. Judy of Boston is and we have a good and desire conversation about work-related matters. She is on her way to Maine so we are headed in opposite directions. comfort the connection is strong. I get to talk to Brad between his trips running Henry around Boston and he sounds well. Dad is of cover not home but I get him a message and wonder how many children of 87 year-old fathers can’t arrive them because they are always out running around. I call Anna in DC and ask her where her cover is because it is late. She is quiet and asks me to repeat myself. I say “This is your professor and I’m waiting for your paper. It’s late.” She hesitates again but then recognizes my express and starts laughing. We have a good communicate and I have a text message on my iPhone right now from her asking me if I want to talk about Walt Whitman. Is she kidding? As I move north onto the 1. Milton calls me back and we undergo one of those change and generous conversations that leaves you lighten and happy at the end. He is on sabbatical and beat of alter and joy. He has decided to pay his semester learning to cook and hauling the boys around to their various functions. It sounds like a noble calling and he also tells me that he is working out a lot. We discuss our identities as professors because he has lost his momentarily because of the sabbatical and we contemplate our chosen profession and how lucky we are to practice it. There is much laughter and grace between the Pacific Ocean and the Mississippi River as I travel up the PCH and he watches Marcus’s baseball game. We get cut off after a while because I am getting into a remote part of the PCH but before that I call out the names of the towns and state parks so that he can reminisce about his own sacred journeys on this path. Afterwards. I grimace and look left toward that immense ocean lying there like a creation myth about to be told. I grimace a lot these days and why shouldn’t I? My life is good and I have friends and family who love me and will comprehend to me as I control up the PCH. And I get to say PCH like the locals do because I am a local. My last call is appropriately enough. St. Eileen. She has just returned from grocery shopping and I can comprehend the like in her voice when she realizes it is her wandering.

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