I wish...

I wish I could be as open with everyone as I am with the people I trust. I wish I could look at you and tell you what's in me and hear you tell me what's in you.

This is my new favorite animal. Notice the colors, and how the low lights perfectly frame the face. God is a genious, and I feel a genuine likeness here. Can you also see it in the eyes? Perfect dark halos. You could fall into them. There is something very alluring about this Cephalopoda- it may be its bite-sizedness, it may be its perfectly spiraling legs complete with baby suction cups. I want to market this fella out as the toy that comes in cereal boxes. Oh, little Octopus Vulgaris, YOU are a superstar.

And this is my second favorite animal. It is "enough said."

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We heart pets. We do. We talk about them all the time. If you heart pets too, you should say so. Matter of fact, you should yell it. Wear it on your shirt. And if you need someone to sit your pet, ask us. Cause that's what we do. And we heart doing it.

Best Friend's Keeper: Professional Pet Sitting and Care

Nikki & Lauren

Books?

I run out of books to read so fast, and this makes me sad. It seems every time I get a new one, I've read it within the next couple days. Then I don't know what to get next. Magazines? Nah. I need an infinite supple of reading material within grasp at all times. I need books to fall into my lap on call. Anyone have any suggestions for what to read next before I result to the cookbooks across the table??

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My throat is sore, but there are a lot of good things happening right now. My life is coming into full circle, and I think I see it. I understand what the Chinese say about spirals and how God does answer prayers, again and again and again and again. I'm hesitant about saying here what is going on because I feel if I form the words, if I give them a body, everything will crumble and turn to dust, then I'll be back to emptyhandedness. I've seen this happen so many times. Though, I'm so excited I can't contain; I want to shout REALLY loud. One good thing I can say is that there are lots of ponies for me to ride now. So I have something fun to do during the day. And I feel this is my practice in life, helping ponies. Learning from them what it is to be raw and truthful. Also, I have nothing else to say and I want a potters wheel to make my own cups. I'm adamant and difficult about it.

But if you could lend me your prayers...

Were our mouths as full of song

as the sea,

and our tongue as full of joyous song
as its multitude of waves,

and our lips as full of praise
as the breadth of the heavens,

and our eyes as brilliant
as the sun and the moon,

and our hands as outspread
as eagles of the sky

and our feet as swift as hinds -

we still could not thank You sufficiently Hashem,

our God, and God of our forefathers,

and to bless Your Name for

even one

of the

thousand thousand, thousands of thousands

and myriad myriads

of favors that You performed

for our ancestors and for us

from the NISHMAT

a prayer before purification

in the Ritual Bath's (Mikvah)

The White Cosmonaut

by Jeremy Geddes

I gleam and cry at this.