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9/11/2008 6:47:55 PM
I mostly like ....folks can be catty there, i've done it myself.  But i saw a friend's comment on a thread titled "Remember" and i thought it might be a nice thread to visit tonight.  They were all bickering, complaining and being offended by each other.  Today.
 
I remember  9/11/2001 in vivid detail, every minute of my day.  And the ones following.  I listened this morning to a timed memory montage...started at 8:46, the first plane...ended at 9:01, the second...then a minute of silence to remember....news clips, reaction of those present....the woman who's husband was in the North tower, called her on his cell and said "I'm not going to make it, I love you" brings tears again, just now.
 
I feel i need to remember the horror, the pain, the incredible shock.  We cannot allow ourselves to forget.  But the one grand memory of that day, that we all felt....the unity, the forgiveness, the proud patroitism....i feel i should remember the rest, but that's the one i love best.  Especially in an election year, i wish we could return to THAT.
 
Yet, we don't.  There's bickering as usual, online, off line, at work, at home, in the news, in the election.  I'm guilty as anyone.  There's even bickering over the memorial being built.  I just wish this ONE day each year, it would stop.
 
We celebrate National Holidays...some do more remembering that others.  But who was around to remember the first July 4th?  We ALL remember 9/11.  I really think it should be a National Holiday....i don't even know if that's the right word...held ON each 9/11, not made a convenient long weekend Monday...that we really take time to remember and reflect, what we all experienced, as a united country that day...and how me might change our behavior, bit by bit, to be THAT United States of America again.

 

8/26/2008 8:30:59 PM
OMG, Hillary's speach....why couldn't that have come before?  I sure don't support McCain.  She should be the Democracit nominee.  She supports Obama, but i don't have the faith in him i do in her.

recently lost George Carlin....why do we have only 2 nonimees for President when we have 50+ for Miss America?

I dunno, George, but it hasn't changed.  We're idiots.

b~

8/12/2008 7:34:39 PM
Part II, only makes sense after Part I...not like sense matters...

Then, the IT.

Bottom of the 9th we're down a run, but home...men on base, i don't remember who, but this i remember.....base hit, a run scores....Sid Bream is rounding third, the throw to the plate....he's safe! BRAVES WIN! BRAVES WIN! BRAVES WIN!

We went to the World Series, didnt win, but I don't ever remember a more exciting moment than that, in  my sports memory...delivered by Skip Caray.

There were alot more to follow.  We lost Skip last Friday....one of those people we never met, but meant the world to us.

I'm flyin my Braves hat haft-mast.  Skip, you were the Braves to me, i'll never forget who you were, and what you meant to us.

Rest in peace, sweet friend, you are loved and missed.

8/12/2008 6:57:50 PM

8/12/08 ~ i've been a sports fan from way back.  I've said (ad nauseum, to some who know me well) i was 3rd of 4 daughters and raised as the token son.  I learned over time not to take my fanaticism to the level of my crazy father (i.e. - if they lose, it's no reflection on me, and no reason to make miserable those around me).  I've managed to keep the same level-head as my son plays.

But...when times are good, i've never lost my excitement!!!

I've always loved baseball, never had a favorite team....mainly saw just the playoffs and World Series, back when....moved to GA in 1985....TBS, the Braves, "America's Team"  They sucked, but they were on every night, in the Summer when nothing else was, and we had no internet.  Got familiar with Ted Turner, Skip Caray, Pete Van Wieren, and others.

Then came 1991...a lot of young talent, pitchers especially, no one really knew them, much.  Early August, 17 games out of the lead...but then 16, 15, 14...what is going on here?  I, like most, probably wouldn't have paid much attention....but they were in our face every night, that ridiculous "America's Team" and did someone mention Penant Race?  No...could it?

I remember in those early days, the network media being so negative, but our "home" boys...Skip, Pete, Don...making it so exciting!  And the deficit kept falling!  People in Atlanta were waking up, and taking notice....we had a Penant Race going on!  It was all the talk, around town.  Then came that long roadtrip to the West Coast, games not even starting til 10PM our time.  But we watched.  They even named a Syndrome after it, people were staying up late, watching, following....and wrecking the next day!  That's not funny, but, it was true.

If you didn't live here at that time, or if you managed to tune it out....i'm sorry.  It was SO electric, this city had never had a contender before...and it wasn't like later years, when you knew they'd contend.  I can't remember a more community-wide electric time in my life.


8/11/2008 7:30:06 PM
8/11/08 ~ i'm feeling kinda chatty again...oh i'm not even talking about this journal. i used to have a huge one, with voracious readers...even the ones who complained...read it all...shrugs...

I just haven't felt like writing in a year or so.  Maybe because i've been so focused on trying to keep a job and make ends meet.  I wonder why W's daddy's memorable catch-phrase hasn't made a comeback....IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID!!!  C'mon. Dubya, i double-dog dare ya to bring that one back!

Still, i got an email from the Democratic party tonight, talking to me like i was one of them.  I don't know how they got that idea.  They did give me chance to explain "why" when i opted out of further emails....i said this~

"I want change, all right, but not just changing back to prior to 8 years ago.  I'm Libertarian, and I want nothing more to do with Republicans OR Democrats.  Your idea of change is painting the walls a new color. (Pun was NOT intended).  My idea is leveling the house and starting with a new foundation.  That's change.  You're talking cosmetics."

I did not see my pun, until after i read it back, i was thinkin in some abstract terms! It really made me laugh, tho, so i thought i'd share.  If it doesn't do it for you...shrugs...i'm sure i'll hear about it.

6/2/2008 5:39:53 PM

Are you my Mentor?

Dreams last for so long, even after they're gone......I had a great dream ~phenominal ~
but turns out i was alone in it.

I learned two years ago, about my submissive side.....rather, i always knew about it, but i learned it was OK with a lot of folks!

I'm not looking for sex..that's easy.  I'm not LOOKING for a boyfriend or husband.    I desire training, a Mentor.  Fools need not respond...at this point in my life i am fairly savvy.  Do i sound too demanding?  That's my right....for now....


5/13/2008 7:44:55 PM
I heard this AM that our gallant Governor of Georgia is not going to suspend the state sales tax on gas.  I understand the economics, it wouldn't be that helpful, and it could actually cause prices to rise (really, research it).  But he did decrease it for farmers...off-road diesel...they're already subsidized to the max.  Paid by me and you.  That stung.  But then he added he needed to RAISE the state sales tax for us consumers, coming July 1st....Now THAT pissed me off!  We need the income, he says..so do i!  I know road projects need funding, but i need to be able to afford to drive to work...who cares if the roads suck, if we can't afford to drive on them???

I know this is not a political site, nor a local one....but this is happening everywhere, i'm posting it everywhere, it HAS to stop!

3/10/2008 9:53:42 PM
I could bring her back... i am capable of topping.   But i don't like that me, i immediatly didn't like the me i felt coming back.....

It was hard, to give up this boy, i loved him.  And its REALLY hard to watch him shine with the woman doing what i did 1st.  But i'm not a Domme.  And it's just somethin i gotta get over.

1/18/2008 8:30:38 PM
No, my own sub didn't work out.  But i learned some surprising things!

Since i discovered this "lifestyle", this way of being who i always wanted to be, but was always told i couldn't (i.e. a truly submissive girl growing up in the middle of Women's Lib, the token son out of 4 daughters, always told my "aptitude" should determine what i did and i was wasting space in the world if i didn't) well no wonder i embraced this side of me.  I really didn't think i could ever switch, or be a dominant being again.

I was wrong.

I liked this boy, we had immediate chemistry.  He told me his deepest, darkest secret, something he so craved, but Dommes were reluctant, even when he gathered the nerve to ask.

All i heard was a physical challenge....my mind immediately went to the physics...safety issues, logistics...i was not thinking in the least about what it "meant" to him.

Once accomplished, he was so thankful, clung to me, so happy.  I have to admit, that felt good.

Part II to follow

10/1/2007 9:52:13 PM
whoops, i prematurely profiled!

I am not actively seeking....i have a friend/Mentor who owns my soul, until such time as he says he doesn't want it.  No one knows me better (and could probably scare all off with a tale or two!) and no one is better for me.

But, i had a sweet little sub boy follow me home (figuratively) and now i have to figure out how to ask Mentor....can i keep him?  I promise i'll feed him, and clean up after him!  He won't be a bother to you at all!

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AutumnTwilight
 
 Age: 21
 St Helens, United Kingdom