it’s shit that simple, all the time, that captures the soul and suddenly somebody’s life changes.
last week i was jumping all over the fluff posts: If butterflies were really free, there’d be no more war and stuff.
but then this one catches my soul when i left it open, and voila, life happens. Peace and other altruistic endeavor type stuff!

The “meaning in life” is something I often forget to look for. But it’s there.

carrie meant bidness. she’s also a soul who lost her way. probably just trying to feel light. she admits the part about losing her way, which is an important step. i love that these pics show how full of life and light and love this time was for her. maybe there was pain going on behind the smiles, i don’t have an autobiography, but she seems genuine to me, always has. the force definitely smiled on the creation that is carrie.

4 and 5 for me.

2 three and seven for me. theses are the good old days. right now, tonight.

I always thought I “knew” Edgar was an opium addict. Everything I know is from the Wik but it seems he suffered before he died and died more or less mysteriously. It’s probably invented memory but I thought I knew the part about him being incoherent and possibly beaten when he was found. Methinks he was at a “house” and got disoriented and robbed. Probably knocked on his head in the process. I have to agree with M that nobody knows what it’s about though. Apparently wrote to make money and wrote with an audience in mind, so that could be anything.
That has to be an awesome teacher to stage Poe during the holidays though. Usually limited to the Jesus fever or Peanuts.

Very well said.

may i borrow this? i will gladly credit you or whoever but i like it too much to pass it up. it’s that place where art and spirituality meld and we all go kangaroo for awhile. kangaroo is being used by me as a verb, adjective and noun, i suspect. i can’t stop now if i wanted. Kangaroo is one of my favorite words. it’s nothing less than disney land on acid with a heavy set from the Quicksilver Messenger Service for the soundtrack.

I’m not sure who originally said it but it’s spot one for some kangaroo I know.

i’ll check it out later this week. i had/have all ten top scores on every machine i ever played on. sgc is my witness to this on the ihcc library machines. i also used one at my mom’s house and one of eorr’s old ibm products. approx 22,500 if i remember the scores correct.

Mmm, linguistic.

boughten is perfectly acceptable hillbilly patois. i like saying hillbilly patois. i cultivated more proper english in my adulthood and i go back home and before the day is out i done boughten into the whole shebang.

and sometime i like the particulars of the participants.