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Let me just start with this. Girls then. Girls now. Blurry game of catch. (Art pic) Another art pic. Can I haz gallery show? Colour bearers stalled. The useful hats of then; the useless hats of now. A looker. Or three.  I got a cheer from the superficial squad! Gooo ME! Tumblers and - snipers?! Best parade float winner right here. Suck it Tournament of Roses. Volleyball players AND cheerleaders?! Yep, still digging the costumes. Erm. Theresa? There are no camels in any of these pics. Where you following the advice of Indiana Jones ? Yes. Yes, I was... Be of good cheer, Gentle Viewer, and have patience. The camels are part of the VIDEO. {Crap- I built that up. Now, I have to edit a decent video.}

One new blog subscriber.  One sip of Mezcal . Two days of getting it right for once. Two baked potatoes in foil. ...

i am the ass beaten for seeing beaten for knowing beaten for my halting steps beaten for my dread awe of what is there there in the moment there just ahead on the path yet there is the stick coming down again drumming my hide for more action and i must go forward or bear the beating inarticulate under the bearing of ill-will on my back in dread awe i am the ass

Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain and Britain. (Mind the latter, how it’s written.) Now I surely will not plague you With such words as plaque and ague. But be careful how you speak: Say break and steak, but bleak and streak; Cloven, oven, how and low, Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe. Hear me say, devoid of trickery, Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore, Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles, Exiles, similes, and reviles; Scholar, vicar, and cigar, Solar, mica, war and far; One, anemone, Balmoral, Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel; Gertrude, German, wind and mind, Scene, Melpomene, mankind. Billet does not rhyme with ballet, Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet. Blood a...

The world around me is in Hi-Def once again. This image is not. For those of you who don't know the semi-blind experience: There is nothing like having your good pair of glasses snap in two beyond the repair of even duct tape. You are forced to become more aware of the 'other' eyes that you have. You learn to see though memory when so much of what is around you ceases to have definite shape / line. And oh, seeing through memory does not make things more beautiful. The idea is lovely, but just try it. If you have fuzzy memory, you are screwed. It will take you 20 minutes to find the wallet that you did not place in its usual place, though it in still in 'plain sight.' Then dealing with people. That is awkward. People's eyes blur to smudges and you can't help feeling a profound unfairness of being seen without seeing in return... so there is just no seeing eye to eye with the people you pass on the street or the neighbor next door. They may wave and ...

I have to say, I was disappointed with the Day Of the Dead in northern Mexico. They have the chance to celebrate THREE DAYS of DEAD and.. they just haven't got the sense to do it. So the occasion turned out to be more like a completely lame St. Valentines Day: Buy last minute flowers and candy, put them on a grave.. go home and drink. (I am guessing that last part, but prolly so true) Some places had altars up for a whole week,which, yes, was very cool, but on the whole, it was a lame experience. https://ferrebeekeeper.wordpress.com/2011/10/27/the-flower-of-the-dead/   << if  you would like some further reading (and I KNOW you DO) this is a nice write up about the flowers and their link to the holiday. I love that there are bright orange flowers dedicated to the dead- that aren't anything to do with lilies, tiger or otherwise. 

Dear Cable Networks, My name is Theresa. I would like to be on television. I would like to have my own show on television. It would make me happy to have a show because then I would have the care and kind attentions of all the people I love that I have lost to the television shows.  Please make my wish come true. Sincerely,  Theresa  - Age 4