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I couldn't say it better myself 

"I've been stricken with a creative fever making something involving felt and the image of a bird skull" (<---love this idea)

From Duo Fiberworks blog:

http://www.duofiberworks.com/journal/2012/10/21/tangents.html

A slightly-meatier blog ... link

Soooo...its been ages since I've blogged. I keep trying to make it a priority to do this on the regular. I have played around with another blog - it essentially focuses on what I read...but my thoughts and ideas come out in a variety of ways. Feel free to check it out.

http://thenonsmoker.wordpress.com/

I'll still post here too...mostly as a tool to store inspirational ideas and other random things. We'll see where we end up.

eh

I'm a fount of negativity.

I need some happy....
and some inspiration...

in a serious serious way. <3

. . .

"... life is hard, you have to change."

<3 blind melon


...so yeah, pretty much ...

even in the "less than rural areas"

I teach college students at a private Christian university...in a less than rural area.

A student said to me today...regarding a different professor (who had not been helpful in a situation when she may have been)...

"I think she sees me the way I appear...and I'm really very different from what I appear to be"

It hit deep because it was probably a true statement...if we could all be a little more open-minded and less attached to our narrow personal views of others and situations, see past prejudices and outside our own paradigms...we'd all probably hurt at least a little less.

...just sayin'...

lyrics for the day

Flogging Molly ::: If I ever leave this world alive...

If I ever leave this world alive
I'll thank for all the things you did in my life
If I ever leave this world alive
I'll come back down and sit beside your
feet tonight
Wherever I am you'll always be
More than just a memory
If I ever leave this world alive

If I ever leave this world alive
I'll take on all the sadness
That I left behind
If I ever leave this world alive
The madness that you feel will soon subside
So in a word don't shed a tear
I'll be here when it all gets weird
If I ever leave this world alive

So when in doubt just call my name
Just before you go insane
If I ever leave this world
Hey I may never leave this world
But if I ever leave this world alive

She says I'm okay; I'm alright,
Though you have gone from my life
You said that it would,
Now everything should be all right

She says I'm okay; I'm alright,
Though you have gone from my life
You said that it would,
Now everything should be all right
Yeah should be alright

I've tried to fill the holes left from the loss with memories and happy thoughts and such...they help but they don't keep the cold out in winter <3 Beauty and Joy do what they can to keep me warm.

Mad love for all of us with these unfillable holes.

not quite the post that's due after such a long time...

But this will have to do for now:::I'm on a mission to fix my soul :) (and i know - aren't we all?)

fix is kinda a strong word implying that something's broken or wrong with whatever is to be fixed - not quite the implication I'm seeking as I'm pretty confident my soul's not perfect, but its not broken either - just neglected. so i should say I'm on a mission to polish my soul.

Awake my Soul • Mumford & Sons
(these are not the entire lyrics...just some random ones I picked to share)

But your soul you must keep, totally free

In these bodies we will live, in these bodies we will die
Where you invest your love, you invest your life
In these bodies we will live, in these bodies we will die
Where you invest your love, you invest your life

<3 love to you <3