Happy Birthday, Janet
This is the last photo we have of my mother before the first of the strokes that killed her. It's from her birthday in 2001 - ten years ago today.
I still miss her.
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Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth that Language Weirds.
Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is in the wrong. There is no other time.
The church says Earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence in a shadow than the church.
If we can't find Heaven, there are always bluejays.
I used to teach Russian and Ukrainian, and some basic English, to civil servants. Now I teach Russian at a local continued-learning institute. I dabble in Gaelic and Welsh. I'm am amateur photographer and I love birding (in a small way). I'm a Progressive, and a Freethinker, and I know Evolution is a fact - that's FCD, Friend of Charles Darwin (look down the sidebar). I read a lot, and follow women's college basketball. Also I love astronomy, though I'm a rank amateur at it. Most of all, I like living in the reality-based community...
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You cannot leave. You cannot drop the armor now. Why? Because you are needed, more than ever. You are mandatory to keep the energy flowing, the karmic vibrator buzzing, to keep the progressive and lucid half of the nation breathing and healthy and awake and ever reaching out to the half that's wallowing in fear and violence and homophobia and sexual dread, hoping to find harmony instead of cacophony, common ground instead of civil war, some sort of a shared love of a country so messy and internationally disrespected and openly confused its own president can't even speak the language.
After all, you don't hand over all your children the first time the flying monkeys bang on your door...
It's far from over. The tunnel is just a little darker -- and longer -- than we imagined.
Mark Morford
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[url=http://www.voado.ru/optom/]Лицензионная парфюмерия производства ОАЭ[/url] – это имитация оригинальной селективной парфюмерии и духов.Настоящая лицензионная парфюмерия имеет хорошее внешнее единство и практически идентичный благовоние оригинальной парфюмерии, содержит натуральные ОРИГИНАЛЬНЫЕ масла. Сообразно стойкости аромата она не уступает оригинальной парфюмерии.
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- Строение расположен в Москве, работаем с регионами РФ;
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My condolences to you, your father and sister (right?), and the rest of your mother's family and friends.
Thanks, Kathie. There are five of us "kids" - I've got two sisters and two brothers.
Did you learn some of your interests from her? My mother loved good mysteries, and enjoyed the ones that were dramatized in Britain -- e.g., Dorothy L. Sayers, P.D. James, Jeremy Brett as Holmes -- then later shown on PBS.
She also liked Rumpole and Inspector Morse; don't know whether she'd have liked Robbie Lewis as a lead as much as we do, though :-)
Both my parents were (my father still is) very fond of Masterpiece mysteries. I think she'd have liked Robbie just fine, too ;-) They both read a lot, and were very progressive in their politics. I learned a lot from her.
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