beautiful monsters

Interblog Partypalooza

Someone suggested that, at the party, one person would start a conversation and then pass it on… I’m pleased to say that we all managed to communicate successfully without the help of keyboards (but with assistance from alcohol in some cases).

Cake mixers

I seem to be attracted to boys more frequently than ever before. This alarms me. I’m not sure why it alarms me. Perhaps I fear that I will get straighter and straighter. Where will it end? One day I might wake up with 2.5 kids, a white picket fence and an electric cake mixer! Now that would be scary.

Maybe it scares me because, if you believe the whole one in ten thing, boys are more likely to like me back. Nine times more likely. Maybe I’m terrified of encountering a Real Relationship.

Maybe I’m just a heterophobic man-hating bigot? But I don’t think so.

Maybe it’s just new and slightly strange and takes some getting used to.

I think I’ll blame it on the medication I’ve started taking. Perhaps as well as treating Bipolar it has altered my bisexuality?! It has also increased my appetite and caused me to have vivid and disturbing dreams…

Metta – a tool for world peace

On Tuesday 1 April at 11:00am New York time for just 15 minutes, you are asked to sit quietly and do a metta (loving kindness) meditation for George Bush. People are gathering together if they can. If you are unable to do this, then light a candle, or pray - do whatever feels right for you.

(Unfortunately, this is 4:00am NZ time on Wednesday 2 April, but doing something at sometime on Wednesday would be good).

The idea is to have as many people as possible worldwide spend fifteen minutes at the same time meditating, praying, sending healing/positive thoughts, etc, to George Bush -- and those advising him -- asking that his decisions be for the highest good of ALL beings, and whatever else we feel... that he will discover a different aspect of himself, a way to end this situation with grace, dignity and compassion. Who knows, even that he becomes the person who goes down in history as the one who found the way to bring peace and stop the infinite repercussions! Let's give him a really huge space to step up into!

"Thinking too well of someone often allows them to behave better than they otherwise would."
- Nelson Mandela.

It’s so easy to hate George Bush, and to feel anger towards him. It’s so easy to hate Saddam. They are human beings, they have feelings and hopes and dreams, when they are hurt they bleed.

Peace is not angry

I received quite a lot of angry emails after my peace blog. Apparently I am personally responsible for the torture and murder of millions of Iraqi people (there is some debate as to whether Kim Hill is also to blame). After reading through these emails I started to wonder if I’d made some kind of terrible mistake. But then, I saw this quote on Junnyhoney’s blog;

"When a woman is being abused by her husband, you don't burn down her home and kill her children to rescue her."

Please let me make one thing clear; I oppose the war, but I do not support Saddam. This is not a contradiction. I do not believe that war is ever the best solution.

If this stance means that I continue to get hate mail, so be it. I can not stay quiet and live with my own conscience.

Tips for drinking chocolate

Drinking chocolate should be consumed lukewarm – as close to blood temperature as possible. This ensures that the caffeine and sugar can be absorbed as quickly as possible. Mix drinking chocolate powder with boiling water and add a large amount of soymilk. You can test the temperature by dipping your finger into the drinking chocolate – it shouldn’t feel hot or cold.

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Due to economic circumstances the light at the end of the tunnel has been switched off.

(Quote on Pumpkinqueen’s blog).

Posted by Fionnaigh at March 31, 2003 10:40 AM