_ever_dumbening_ sabbie you are truly beautiful. i send my geuniest thank yous to flutter around your head and join with your neon halo. friendly kisses dropped on your crown like moonflakes of respect sab. [promted by: iv_ever_dumbening_julia_butterfly] 020515 ... ever dumbening thank you to your thank you. the slivered moon tonight resists flaking, unlike the crumbly bloated full, so your sprinkling is most generous. you and others here are the self same resonating people of whom i speak. your words, stories, struggles, joys--they serve as sounding board and palette simultaneously. we reflect and paint. so to YOU, my thanks go out. and of neon: tonight as i walked and walked, i saw a neon sign saying, "the french hotel." i thought of wooden floors and white lace, of hot chocolate and croissants, of aging ceramic and black iron bannisters, but the biggest stream led me back five years to a large hotel room in Shanghai. all that from "neon." go figure. i wish i had had a pen that worked in those days. but that's all part of the lesson plan. -J 020516 ... "Ancient Pagan" Ancient_Pagan says: "Abide by the laws of the Pink_Hamster_Army and you can only get smarter, i.e. seeds & hamster- wheels raise I.Q.!" 020517 ... ever dumbening if by seeds you mean the seeds of which Thich Nhat Hahn speaks in his book Transformation at the Base, and if by hamster wheels you mean the Tibetan Buddhist Wheel of Life, then i think you just might be on to something http://www.buddhanet.net/wheel2.htm 020517 ... Pink Hamster Army Queen I have no words of pinky wisdom to type at this moment. I'm just here because I want to humor Ancient Pagan. 020518 ... rock candy van slyke how's the fish crackpipe getting along? that drug-laden festival of fire and whores is coming up...you excited? 020815 ... happy mom dolphin all the things you thought were so hard to get, they aren't so hard, all it takes is time, all it takes is giving up all the things you thought were so easy, untill you forgot your way back, and you realize those things aren't so easy anymore. i refuse to give specifics. i might cry. something i once thought was easy. 020815 ... ever dumbening thanks for asking, rock (even tho you saved your best for the buttpie rodents). the monkeys of stress perforate my mitochondia, yet the fish swims on. gots all the glass i need for said pipe. [thanks in part to the rock's contributt-iron.] sketch is finished (not bad i might add, for a skad), sort of a fantasy cichlid - part angel fish, part clown fish, part hobbit goat. aquaman costume will surely draw the flies - it's the shit, baby. really cool wire and glass jewelry is coming along nicely. the second bedroom is covered in plastic sawdust, though most of the cuttin n scratchin be done. installation design is falling into place - the whole shebang is going to be suspended from above. all told, the stress sucks, but this is my fucking sojourn. so deal, right? and the welding has been cool, too. small world stories continue to accent my days. BURNING MAN SUCKS, DON'T GO. (see you there) 020815 ... ever dumbening happy mom dolphin, thanks. very timely. very close to home. -j 020815 ... youll always be freakizh to me hey j where have you been? you never told me the full burning man experience, did ya? i don't have the rush newbie yey.. but i bought the_wall dvd and moulin_rouge. tee hee. 020816 ... unhinged and you know dear, your gift reached me at the most perfect time 020817 ... Piso Mojado thanks for writing- email coming soonish- i want to share all about my experiences on the playa - but must wait until brain is not overloaded with school (see http://www.evergreen.edu/catalog/catalogqz.htm#shadowlands ) do you see yourself going back? 041001 what's it to you? who go blather from