magikstah

8:31PM - GUS, MELISSA AND DAVE'S PUPPY

my little sister, Melissa was very kind to let me borrow her and dave's puppy, gus.
i took this opportunity to take gus' portraits. he LOOOOOVES attention. :)

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7:23PM - IRENA SENDLER

I listen to the crackling of fresh salmon, South African white wine, a boiling white rice with lemon, and intricate secret ingredients in secret orders with adapting ebullience. There is a grin to be had for moving to Portland, although I really want to get out of the country, and stay out, for a long, long time. I want to grow my own gardens, I want to have mountains and streams surrounding me, natural order. I want to cook the vegetables that I harvest, and paint the sunsets, sunrises, animals, climb for miles; sometimes challenging my fortitude, sometimes having a cup of tea and singing along to guitar, ideas always as fresh as the vegetables simmering. A tribe 8,256 years ago in what is now Alakasan territory must have wondered at some point, "is there anything else in this world? Is this all there is?" The adventurous broke ground, found their brave new worlds. Val is laughing with her Mom on the phone in our bedroom.

"Que color es?"

17 second pause.

"Mm.."

"Mm hm..."

We were shopping across the street from our apartment hours ago for hygiene products, pens (my desirable choice was n/a, went un), oh, and my Mom called! My sis and her are visiting soon! Not long enough to take them south to indian caves and petroglyphs, east to the rockies and north to blossoming Idaho, but we'll have time to behold the Great Salt Lake, surrounding mountain vistas and maybe, just maybe (maybe means definitely here) sneak in a trip down to Goblin Valley to let them feel those petroglyphs, mystifying rock-wall steps, with a breeze caught between summer and spring, leaning toward the cool factor, I hope. I am simple to sweat, hah. Dinner's ready.

Irena Sendler, a Polish woman who saved thousands of Jewish children during World War Two by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, died in the Polish capital on Monday after a long illness, local media said.



Israel's Holocaust remembrance authority, Yad Vashem, said in a statement that it mourned her death.



The web portal of Poland's leading daily, Gazeta Wyborcza, said Sendler, 98, died in Plocka Street hospital early on Monday. The hospital declined to comment on the report.



Yad Vashem chairman Avner Shalev said: "Irena Sendler's courageous activities rescuing Jews during the Holocaust serve as a beacon of light to the world, inspiring hope and restoring faith in the innate goodness of mankind.

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Using her position as a social worker, Sendler regularly entered the ghetto, smuggling around 2,500 children out in boxes, suitcases or hidden in trolleys.



The children were then placed with Polish families outside the ghetto, created by Nazi Germany in 1940 for the city's half a million strong Jewish population, and given new identities.



But in 1943 Sendler, who led the children' section of the Zegota organization which helped Jews during the war, was arrested and tortured by the Gestapo.



She only escaped execution when Zegota managed to bribe some Nazi officials, who left her unconscious but alive with broken legs and arms in the woods.



"People who stand up for others, for the weak, are very rare. The world would have been a better place if there were more of them," Marek Edelman, the last surviving commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, said on national television.



His sentiments were echoed by former Polish President Lech Walesa as well as religious leaders.



Sendler was honored with Israeli Yad Vashem Righteous Among the Nations medal in 1965 for her actions, and later made an honorary Israeli citizen.



She was also nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize last year but, despite her bravery, she denied she was a hero.



"The term 'hero' irritates me greatly. The opposite is true. I continue to have pangs of conscience that I did so little," Sendler said in one of her last interviews.</span>

color_theory

(andy_adams)

9:08PM

Hey folks, this is my first post. Taken at the Toronto Necropolis.

cutshort

(heat_whore)

1:29PM - my mullet is coming in nicely

So I chopped off all my hair and I loved it...for about a week. Having short hair just means you have to get it trimmed to make it look good constantly, but don't get me wrong I LOVE having short hair, but I just can't handle it looking so grownout/midlength all the time. I think I'm just going to grow it out, but in the meantime I need to do some cute things with it! I currently use Strongsexyhair pomade and I think it works pretty good.
So Please Help
( Growing out hair stinks )

Current mood: anxious

Current music: Xanadu- Hank and Lily

cutshort

(the_strangecase)

1:06PM - Help?

color_theory

(jade_black)

12:44PM

( Gee, painting is dead. )

color_theory

(xgray)

11:39AM - worn

ensus

11:34PM - imaginary world of pris and dan

ensus

11:25PM - apollo's world

If you had to pick another generation/time period to be born in/live in, which would you choose, and why?

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color_theory

(fcuk__it)

12:46PM

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more in my journal! :)

cutshort

(thephoeb)

10:51PM

I've been trying to grow my hair out but I'm kind of over it.  It grows soooo slow and I'm itching for a change. I was aiming for a longish a-line, should I stick it out or hack it off?

_kudzu_

7:30PM

This summer I am going to have a regular spot on a public access TV show called Nourish Your Soul. Go me. I'ma famous TV star soon. Today I met a nice Chinese lady at Bucky's to give her an tarot reading. She was worried about the reading environment there and wanted me to read for her in her car? Yeah, I actually think even Starbucks is a more spiritual environment than a minivan, and I don't feel like being kidnapped even by old ladies, so she had to do things my way! I almost got paid ten extra bucks becuase she heard $60 instead of $50 over the phone. Perhaps this is a sign I should raise my prices?

My old Vice Principal stopped by to give me my final review even though he couldn't do my second round of observations becuase of my medical leave. Luckily I didn't get any Unsatisfactories, and even got a few Proficients in: Knowledge of Students' Skills and Level of Understanding of Content, Classroom Interactions, Directions and Procedures, Persistence, and Use in Future Teaching (Reflecting on Teaching). He also said I was ahead of the curve with my projects and grading system and that the entire school will shift to those systems that I devised because they were exemplary of the goals of the school. So it's cool that part of me will live on in that school forever because I was a founding member. I should think about writing a book about my grading system since it has been recognized by so many people now.

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(bonniebarrow)

5:55PM - One more!

Here's the back of my new hair-cut. it's not the best picture, but it'll give you a basic idea.

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color_theory

(metrocentric)

10:48PM - Zürich Tram Flags

The signs at tram stops in Zürich mark each route with a numbered and coloured panel. Where two or more trams serve a stop these panels sit one above the other, rather like a flag. The colours are close enough to interact. In daylight the passengers can come to their own conclusions on how well these colours 'go' together.

There is no convincing evidence that an aesthetic consideration of these combinations of colour has played a significant part in the tram routing decisions of the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund. Not that I wouldn't put it past them.

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_kudzu_

1:24PM - article ideas please?

Help! I need article ideas! A psychic web-site is paying me $10/article to write 10 articles. I need ideas for brief articles that people who visit psychic web-sites might like to read. (Bonus if they're fun to write.) So far I've written:

"Is There Such Thing as a Soul-Mate?"
"Am I Pregnant?" (coffeeman's suggestion!)
"Beating a Dead Horse" (On multiple readings on the same question).

schizofriends

(velvetinepuppy)

9:05AM

Go about your merry way and pretend like you never approved this post.

Current mood: satisfied

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(mego_08)

12:58PM - hair ideas

so at the end of march i shaved my head due to a bad perm. It was horrible but hey its whatever. so my hair is about 4 inches long maybe less. so i would be happy if i could have pictures of pixies and short hair so i can atually know what to do with my hair. srry  i have no pics 

ensus

11:03AM - in this our time

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10:06AM