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| User: | icanreadyourmnd (129385)  ...Part of the Solution...
~the bitch with the bite~ |
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| Name: | Sibyl | |
| Website: | Mother Hen Promotions | |
| Location: | City of Angels, California, United States | |
| Bio: | All original content in this journal -- ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} icanreadyourmnd - is © 2001-2008 Jeanette A. Lundgren, a.k.a. Sibyl and/or Sibyljes. All rights to said original content are reserved to me; no original content is permissable to be copied elsewhere without my express written permission. Publication on the internet is considered to be copywritten and I have 25 years worth of publishing law behind me to back me up. If you know what's good for you, you will not cross that line. It's MINE, don't touch! Click to join JohnBatdorf Way back in my sophomore year of high school, I picked up a ragged second hand paperback book with yellowed pages for a quarter. The book was called THE RAGING MOON by Peter Marshall (Ace Books, 1964). I still have it. Many paragraphs are now underlined. The book is about two crippled teenagers in a home for like people who fall in love and who ask the eternal question: "why?" The book spoke to me then and it speaks to me now because it's not just about two teenagers who can't use their limbs. It's about all of us. All of us who are different; and make no mistake about it -- all of us ARE different. Here is the paragraph that I use most often when quoting from this book. It says it all. “And then in a quiet voice, almost as if she were talking to herself, as though she had forgotten the existence of the others, Annette said: ‘Where will it end? Where will the line be drawn? And who will draw it? Should we all die, all of us in this room? We’re crippled, not much use to the community; we’re unsightly even. Why not clear us out of the way? Mercifully, of course. It would be a good thing, a humane act. We have suffered. We suffer now. But who will kill us? And, after us, the mentally ill because they’re suffering, too. Then there will be a world without cripples or lunatics. A perfect world? Or a snowball. A snowball running away with itself. Running over the cripples and the lunatics, then the ones with the strange religions, then the ones without any religion, then the dissenters and the noncomformists, then left-handed people, then dark-skinned people and yellow people and people with warts and striped people, and then drunkards, teetotalers, fornicators, virgins, criminals, homosexuals, Ban-the-Bombers, Keep-the-Bombers, gypsies, all the people who are different. Then there will be a perfect world. When the snowball stops. A perfect world with one person in it, the person who did the merciful killing of everybody who was different from himself, which was everybody else in the entire bloody world. And he will then commit merciful suicide because of the silence. ... Who’s going to draw the line?’ ” Sibyl's Defining Lyrics: ...the less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I am to fine. -from "Closer to Fine", Indigo Girls Take the time and I'll sit down beside you And we'll see so many beautiful things We'll get to know each other and when we're through We'll turn to the world and say 'Thank you'. -from "Thank You", Rosanne T. Jurik, 1973 Life is eternal, Love is immortal, and Death is only a horizon Life is eternal As we move into the light And a horizon is nothing Save the limit of our Sight Save the limit of our Sight. -from "Life is Eternal", Carly Simon And I dream that something's coming And it's not just in the wind It's more than just tomorrow And it's more than where we've been It offers me a promise It's telling me 'begin' I know we're needing something worth believing in. -from "Remember When the Music", Harry Chapin More Interests (since there's no more room below): carpe diem // censorship causes blindness // civil rights // don't EVER lie to me // do not tolerate intolerance // everything-is-relative // existential-pizza-boxes-of-doom // furby (my truck) // happiness is a warm tribble // honesty // honorary human // incorrigible // i read banned books // i support the right to choose // j'ai vacu // jane eyre // kartaffel puree // last night I dreamed I went to Manderly again... // life after death // live your dreams // mashed potatoes // minutia // multi-tasker // my edges have edges // native american history // native american lore // night train // "no one with a heart is ever free" // no-such-thing-as-coincidence // no-such-thing-as-normal // nothing is impossible // on the beach (the book) // rebecca // R.I.P. Banjo Peanut 10-16-02 // R.I.P. Gypsy (in my Soul) 9-16-96 // river tours // runs with scissors // seize the day // stranger in a strange land // the-8-millionth-bear // skellig // the great gatsby // the-path-less-traveled // the stand (book and movie) // the wrath of grapes // there's no such thing as normal // there should have been castles // truth // trust // what goes around comes around // a wrinkle in time // wuthering heights // fade // dandelion wine // escher // bev doolittle // there will come soft rains // rocking horse winner // (to be continued).... Quotes "Music is a wonderful thing. It is from the inside of one person to the inside of another person, and there is nothing in the middle to screw it up." -Graeme Edge/The Moody Blues "There was a time when the beauty and the music were all within, and I sat and listened to my thoughts, and there was a song in them." - Henry David Thoreau "To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning." - Henry David Thoreau "Every action of our lives touches on some chord that vibrates in eternity." - Author UnKnown "If we don't kick up dust, we'll never touch the ground." - J. Lundgren "Just because you're opinionated doesn't make you a bitch." -Angel about me "And the Poet Lifts His Pen, and the Soldier Sheaths His Sword." - Jethro Tull | |
| Memories: | 415 entries | |
| Pictures: | over 200 public | |
| Interests: | 132: 8, a-team, acoustic, all wood and stones, amber, amethyst, ancient history, antiques, appaloosas, archery, arthurian legend, balance, banjo, beaches, blue, blue cheese, blue glass, blue katana, blue roses, blues, books, brimstone, broadsword, brown rice, bugs bunny, butterflies, candles, carl jung, cats, channeling, classic rock, coffee, crystals, depression glass, dragonflies, dreams, driving, eccentricity, einstein, envoy, espresso, fiddle, fog, geodes, ghosts, grammar, green amber, guitar, hard pretzels, harmony, hauntings, herbs, highlander, honesty, horses, hummingbirds, imagination, immortals, indigo girls, infinity, joe dawson, john batdorf, john edward, kabbalah, karma, katana, lavendar, lighthouses, lightning bugs, logic, looney tunes, los angeles, medieval, meditation, messenger, metaphysical, methos, mountains, movies, murdock, music, mythology, ocean, paranormal, parapsychology, percussion, philosophy, photography, pisces, poetry, premonition, psychic dreams, psychology, puns, r&b, rain, reading, reincarnation, relativity, rem sleep, road runner, road trips, roses, san francisco, sarcasm, saxophone, scorpio rising, seashells, serendipity, singing, slide guitar, spicy food, spirits, stale peeps, star trek, swords, synchronicity, tea, the romanovs, thrift stores, thunderstorms, tolerance, tom dundee, traveling, vancouver, vikings, waterfalls, windmills, words, writing, ♥, ♪ | |
| Schools: | St. Edmund Preparatory High School - Brooklyn, NY (1972 - 1975) College of Mount Saint Vincent - Bronx, NY (1976 - 1979) | |
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| Mutual Friends: | 25: actiasluna, arrow_bowswain, burnbright, cheer_down, ckwellspring, eachuisge, harmonyconstant, icanreadyourmnd, joanne_c, juliana_smith, kelpierocks, ladydiva, lucylooo, marissacongusto, maydayj, myexquisitelack, mz_bstone, natlet, shadypines133, smittygirl, subienkow, taylorjameson, thehunter, tpfanmel17, wishfulsky | |
| Also Friend of: | 14: aftersunlight, aunticrist, dreamsneak, evilrthanu, isabeau, isanovel, lionel_luthor, mythseeker, pymander, salems_spot, somebodies, synicism, tanacawyr, winterhart | |
| Member of: | 5: customers_suck, lj_2008, sibyljes, smitstuff, teachingcircle | |
| Account type: | Permanent Account | |
