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I am an East Coast expatriate hiding out in the Midwest...

I am an urban gal living in the suburbs and occasionally hiding in the country

I am a yoga practitioner, fitness enthusiast, believer in the mind-body-spirit connection...

I am a mid-life "revert" to the Roman Catholic faith in which I was raised and which has become an enormous source of support, encouragement, inspiration, and joy in my life...

I am a mom, sister, daughter, and wife...

I am an explorer; adventurous and curious about the world and people around me...

I am educated in the formal sense but I gain insight through everyday living...

I created this blog at a time of great fear and apprehension in my life. I chose to sustain it because of the discoveries about myself and the world around me that it has revealed.



What you can expect to find here:
  • the documentation of a love-hate relationship with the greater Philadelphia area
  • reminiscing about the good-ole-days (the 80's!)
  • complaints about my various ailments and injuries, both real and imagined
  • pictures and stories of gardening, decorating, shopping, sewing
  • my love of irony
  • links to kooky news stories
  • way too much scatological musing for sane people


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    Thursday, May 20, 2004
    antagonist

    Perhaps I don't intend it...or maybe subconscioulsy I do...

    Writing of birds and sunshine, of laughing children and healthful living...what with my white background and plain text...this darn blog must seem rather antagonistic to some!

    I adore and embrace a wide range of "avant-garde" arts, fashion, and, um, behaviors, shall we say.

    But as I have mentioned before, it seems that everywhere you turn, what once was "wild" and intriguing now seems passe. When top-rated network shows like CSI have a semi-regular "alternative lifestyle" character, then you know its all down the toilet!

    Well, of course I am only joking!

    Perhaps its the change of seasons that makes me eschew my leather, corsets and boots for sundresses, sandals and a smile.

    These random thoughts are directed at no one in particular; more to the teen and twentysomething goth kids who blog about, well, all the same stuff, it seems to me. But that's what those years are about; you have barely lived at 21, and at that age anything and everything should be fascintating to you , sometimes to the point of obsession. However, sometimes that mopey, negative, and sometimes aggressive attitude that some of these guys and gals emulate grates on my nerves. Gee, I can't wait until I have a teenager in the house. Argh!

    addendum: during my pre-bed-ritual hot bath, I stumbled across a statement that I fell aptly describes my attitudes:

    "I pefer that words nurture, and in the end,
    I would rather not be the kind of person
    who knows how to be withering."

    from The Dewey Decimal System of Love, by Josephine Carr

    Posted at 10:57 pm by brandy101

     

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