Tuesday, December 28, 2004
New Pics Posted 1/3/05
"In the blink of an eye"
The eyes of the women and children close wide open with fear. Their silence deafens the ears of the world. We sit and watch death on our tvs, hear it on our radios, read it in our papers, yet we carry on. Fathers, brothers, aunts, mothers, counsins, sons, daughters, grandmothers and grandfathers scatter the streets in disarray. Horror paints the faces of the ones so fortunate as the sheets reveal the truth. The cries envelope the morning's air while the sun smiles on it's neighbor friend in ignorance. Death creates it's own wave and sweeps away the lives of the living.
If you think you can't help you are wrong. These people need everything and anything you can spare. clean water, clothing, food, money, you name it they need it. anything you can give they can use. one single bottle of water can help one thirsty child. a pair shoes can help an old man.
here is a list of just some of the relief efforts in which you can make your contributions: Just think about if you were in their shoes. would you want people to turn their back on you?
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/12/27/quake.aidsites/index.html
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Published by Meggs: 2:00 AM
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Thursday, December 16, 2004
"Tis the Season"
Every year the dust is brushed off the plastic santa's and colored lights for the spirit of christmas. The decor can be of many sizes, shapes, colors and styles. Some people have great taste in their lighting abilities, while others should shop for the guide entitled, "holiday decor 101 for dummies".(if only there were such a book.)
Through the years I have watched the holiday decorations grow and morph into horrible displays of cheer and i feel that something ought to be done about such atrocities. It's all fine and dandy to share your spirit of the season with passers-by, but when you infringe upon others by invading their windows at nightfall with seizure-activating blinking reigndeer and blow-up snowmen the size of sasquatch i feel that a code has been breached.
As i have written in past years about my neighbors for those of you who used to read my journals back in the day, they feel the need to have to cover every inch of their home and yard with gawdy figurines and horrid lighting. Not only do they crap up their own yard, they now have THEIR next door neighbors in on it too! So now it's not just one home but TWO! I know that santa will not have a hard time attempting to locate either of them being that they are brighter than a f*cking beacon at an airport on a foggy night. They claim it's for the children, what children? they don't have any children! I think that a coalition be put in place to prevent these sad and violating excuses of holiday cheer. anyone care to join?
this is an example of REAL xmas beauty:
this is my friend eerik.
eerik is 6 feet tall.
eerik's tree is taller.
true story.
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Published by Meggs: 2:00 AM
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Wednesday, December 01, 2004
GROWING 20's
They call it the "Quarter-life Crisis." It is when you stop going along with the crowd and start realizing that there are many things about yourself that you didn't know and may not like. You start feeling insecure and wonder where you will be in a year or two, but then get scared because you barely know where you are now.
You start realizing that people are selfish and that, maybe, those friends that you thought you were so close to aren't exactly the greatest people you have ever met, and the people you have lost touch with were some of the most important ones. What you don't recognize is that they are realizing that too, and aren't really cold, catty, mean or insincere, but that they are as confused as you.
You look at your job... and it is not even close to what you thought you would be doing, or maybe you are looking for a job and realizing that you are going to have to start at the bottom and that scares you.
Your opinions have gotten stronger. You see what others are doing and find yourself judging more than usual because suddenly you realize that you have certain boundaries in your life and are constantly adding things to your list of what is acceptable and what isn't. One minute, you are insecure and then the next, secure. You laugh and cry with the greatest force of your life. You feel alone and scared and confused. Suddenly, change is the enemy and you try and cling on to the past with dear life, but soon realize that the past is drifting further and further away, and there is nothing to do but stay where you are or move forward.
You get your heart broken and wonder how someone you loved could do such damage to you. Or you lie in bed and wonder why you can't meet anyone decent enough that you want to get to know better. Or maybe you love someone but love someone else too and cannot figure out why you are doing this because you know that you aren't a bad person.
One night stands and random hook ups start to look cheap. Getting wasted and acting like an idiot don't seem as fun. You go through the same emotions and questions over and over, and talk with your friends about the same topics because you cannot seem to make a decision. You worry about loans, money, the future and making a life for yourself... and while winning the race would be great, right now you'd just like to be a contender! What you may not realize is that everyone reading this relates to it.
We are in our best of times and our worst of times, trying as hard as we can to figure this whole thing out. Send this to your twenty-something friends...maybe it will help someone feel like they aren't alone in their state of confusion... "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."It's really amazing when two strangers become the best of friends, but it is really sad when the best of friends become two strangers! "Give time to love, give time to speak, and give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind"
-George Carlin
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Published by Meggs: 2:00 AM
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