patience pilgrim What I need when dealing with this slow-motion technology that our office always seems to inherit. 010130 ... fallen a virtue that i do not possess 010131 ... god you just take your time with that there 010131 ... twiggie i try to have it...some days are better than others. 010202 ... soia the only sort of nervous unhappiness that passes me now is the worry about how he is doing now that I have found my own happiness I feel as if I should be able to show him what I see and I am so used to knowing what he's doing at most times of the day, and how things are going for him, that it still feels strange not to know it only took me one day to turn myself around I want this feeling for him maybe it's an ungivable gift patience is more important now than ever 010303 ... moonshine Patience paints the prettiest pictures.. 010323 ... anonymouse something i always had but i dont have anymore 010820 ... silentbob a guns n roses song oh shit, more junk mail 010822 ... dB The singer in my band wrote a song called patience. In my opinion it's her best work yet. Jane, what can I say about her... Um... She writes the best lyrics, has a great voice, and big, brown, pretty eyes. That's my singer. She's the best! 010822 ... Scarlet Photos Not an attribute I would ever list as a strength, if asked. But, when I think about it, I live in a shell. Layer upon layer of control - giving out a calculated amount, absorbing some things and letting others wash off. One reason I never remember anyting - forgetting things breeds ultimate patience. And I continue to play my diplomatic game. Careful phrases, timed phone calls, give a little, back off a little. And I'll have them all marching up and down like my own private army, while to outward appearances I'm a mindless idiot who has no influence over anybody. Who's Zaphod now, Softly Spoken? I know exactly what I'm doing. It just take a long time. So I hide in my onion, and wonder if its ever safe to emerge. 031110 ... lotuseater the sane hooray for the Guide referrence. 031110 ... mademoiselle card game sometime personal deficit girl's name 040723 ... cocoon how long before i snap and yell at my roommate about her inability to wash dishes, buy toilet paper or leave the kitchen tidy? alternatively, how long until this clean phase im going through ends, and i go back to being a filthy sloth just like her? 110113 ... tender_square “my numerology forecast and the psychic that i talked a few weeks ago both emphasized the same lesson for 2022: patience.” her therapist gave her a curious look. “what is patience anyway?” she wondered. “why is it important to cultivate?” their time was up; she wasn’t angling for an answer. rather, she was probing the philosophical possibilities. “damn! now you’re leaving me with a question i’m going to be thinking about until i see you next.” her therapist pulled the glasses from her hair and shrugged. “i mean, yes, in a sense, it is good to have patience,” she reasoned aloud. “but where is the line between patience and suffering?” as they said said goodbye, she met her husband in the waiting area, and thought, “how much loss am i supposed to endure with an open heart before i say ‘enough’?” earlier in the session, she questioned if her marriage really was tough to sustain but she couldn’t land on a definitive side. yes, relating to one another was more arduous than it used to be, but maybe that stemmed from the fact that she wasn’t as invested in their relationship as she'd been, she told herself. or, maybe she wasn’t invested precisely because “his bad years,” as he called them—his quiet, unrelenting grief for what once was—had exhausted her, had left her adrift and longing. "how was the session?" her husband asked. she looked into her his eyes. she didn’t find the answer in his stare. and so she held fast and steady as she’d been instructed to do: waiting. 220110 ... unhinged 'the secret to accessing transcendent patience is to abandon expectations' - susan piver 220112 what's it to you? who go blather from