Health Care

Dear Congresspersons,

Stop the bickering. Ignore the vocal minority, and do something.

Love,

Marilyn

Sparkly Pink Ninja

'Cause ninjas are cool and sparkles are shiny... but really, I wanted to try drawing Anime. It's something I never did before. If you want to, you can visit her at my deviant art thingum. Even if you hate her, deviant art is a cool place to see the work of very talented artists (not just Anime but all kinds of stuff).

Saturday Randomness

It's a lot harder for me to write a poem every day than I thought it would be- especially to a prompt. I've always written poetry late at night, right before I go to bed. My brain seems to want to run in circles then so it's a good time to just let it... sometimes, though, I look at that prompt and nothing comes to mind. I can usually write what I consider to be a decent poem that needs a lot of revision about then, but I may have to change the way I go about things if I want to write to a prompt.

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I cannot make my voice sound masculine. When I try, even with the help of audacity, I end up with a voice that sounds suspiciously like a gay man. Since I am working on a project that is likely to be considered offensive, that's a problem. I think it's time to just roll with it and hope that nobody minds too much about the voice. Hopefully, the content will distract from the delivery.

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We are living in the most mind boggling age in all of history. There are so many opportunities for any average person to create something wonderful without even spending any money on it, that it's hard to fathom. Granted, it's harder to be seen in the crowd, but the opportunity is amazing.

Fort Hood on Peace Day

I just want to offer my condolences to the people who were killed and wounded in the Fort Hood shooting and to their families. It saddens me to hear of all the recent shootings all over the world. Just this morning I heard of two other shootings, one in Japan and one in Russia. I know peace is possible. It just feels very unlikely.

Dona Nobis Pacem

There will be lots of words of wisdom in the blogosphere today, both original and quoted. All I really have to offer is my globe and good thoughts... and this animated video I prepared for the occasion. It's about three minutes long and I thank you in advance for watching it. This is my first attempt at animation. I created it using artwork I made in Gimp and animated it using Creatoon. Please visit the musician's website www.joyscream.com if you enjoy the music. This song is available as a free mp3 download there. Of course, you should also visit Mimi at mimiwrites.blogspot.com because she is the genius behind the BlogBlast for peace.

I'm baaack

Just a couple more days till the Blogblast for Peace!

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Instead of NaNo, seeing as how I lost three days, I'm thinking of doing this. And anyway, even if I never do anything with all the poems I write, it will be fun. Chapbook Challenge

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My new motto is, "lets try something new". After all, what I've already done didn't quite work out the way I had hoped. Who knows what might happen if I do new and different things. A sales presentation I heard once said that if you want to increase your success rate you need to increase your failure rate. Nobody cares how many times you fell down. They only care about the times it all came together and you crossed the finish line.

Manic Friday

After two days of snow things are supposed to clear up today, which is good because I have a lot of end-of-the-month errands that I've been putting off. Today's the day to get them all done.

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Going to see my husband this weekend. It was planned that we'd leave today but since the roads are still icy we'll leave Sunday. Don't know exactly when I'll be back but probably Tuesday. I'll set Future Post up so that nothing can stop my Nov. 5th post... though probably I'll be here for that.

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Wondering why every piece of legislation these days is called Landmark. They can't all be landmarks, can they? Some of them have to be landscape.