I am going to try out the Vulcan exercise of Kolinahr. Not that I want to achieve the Kolinahr but get familiar with it. when people annoy you, who does it hurt and cause pain, you but with the kolinahr you try to teach yourself not to be affected by what people say to you. I have often thought about something I heard years ago 'If you hate someone then either they don't know you hate them or they don't care' . I am also gonna try and talk less about other people, I work only with women and most ...
Updated 12-31-2010 at 05:05 AM by Helga
I just read the memoir, '"Just Kids" by Patti Smith. I wrote a book review of it in the book review section, if you care to look. http://www.online-literature.com/for...ad.php?t=58470 It is a beautiful book. I wish I had a friendship like Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe had, could share with someone such a deep committment to art. Anyway, from this, I was inspired to write. white swan dying do ...
Updated 12-31-2010 at 01:45 PM by qimissung
Once upon a time just by chance I happened to pick up a book called Blood Roses by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and when I first picked up the book I had no idea it was part of a series, there was nothing on the book which obviously stated that it was a book in a series, and I just thought it sounded interesting, and it was in a used book sale which I found. It was later that I discovered that it was book 11 in a series, in addition I found that the series is about vampires of which I did ...
Christmas has come and gone, and all I can say is that I'm more than happy to have celebrated with family. No matter what I've been through and what's going on now, I'm so glad to have spent that little bit of time, with my full family. In truth, I can honestly say that holidays are the best when spent with people you consider close to you. For most, it is family. Others may be friends, but holidays were made to spend with someone. But I'm glad that even for a little time, for the ...
I'm posting this early, mainly because despite having nothing but reading time between now and the year end there's slim likelihood of me finishing either The Odyssey or The English Patient before then. So, in traditional fashion here's the sum of my reading for 2010, this time with ratings Novels Independent People - Halldor Laxness 5/5 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K Dick 4/5 Mysteries - Knut Hamsun 3.5/5 We -Yevgeny Zamyatin 4/5 ...