Tag: random musings
member name: Rory M.
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July 29, 2007 11:04 PM EDT --
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
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September 08, 2007 11:55 PM EDT --
My Mom is a stalker.
She follows me everywhere I go.
When I’m playing in the back yard, she watches me through the slats on the blind. She thinks I can’t see her, but I can.
She drives me . . . more
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June 19, 2007 10:30 PM EDT --
The little fixer-upper we bought when we moved to our quaint rural retreat sixteen years ago came with one distinct concern of which we were well aware: water.
Our house gets its water from a 400 foot . . . more
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July 25, 2007 10:26 PM EDT --
In mid June I began a project I called The Gather 30 Day Countdown.
We have all seen fellow Gatherers get disillusioned, enraged, outraged, plain old pissed off and sign off the site permanently . . . more
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August 05, 2007 04:52 PM EDT --
Up here in "The Great White North" we have a national, publicly owned broadcaster called the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, or CBC. This is a public broadcaster that does earn some of its . . . more
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October 14, 2007 11:01 PM EDT --
Everyone who does laundry on a regular basis knows the mysterious nature and frustrating prevalence of odd socks.
Rarely do symmetrically limbed people wear a single sock. One either goes sockless . . . more
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October 22, 2007 07:56 PM EDT --
Language is the main tool we have for expressing our thoughts, ideas, feelings, hopes, dream and fears to one another. Each of us has our own distinct history, frame of reference, point of view, . . . more
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August 06, 2007 01:22 PM EDT --
Everyone knows, from the endless movies and televisions shows and novels, of the American pioneering archetype: the cowboy. He was the white knight of the wild West and the wide open plains, . . . more
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September 09, 2007 12:16 AM EDT --
When Janice woke up, everything seemed the same. Her same old slippers were lying on the floor beside her bed, same as always. Her same old bathrobe was hanging on the end of her bed, just the same as . . . more
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September 15, 2007 11:17 PM EDT --
Getting back to nature. Living off the land. Embracing the natural world and sacredness of our Earth Mother.
These concepts have been very popular in recent decades. Going back to the 1960s, people have . . . more
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October 29, 2007 12:12 AM EDT --
Dreaming is an interesting phenomenon. It is said that we dream a lot more than we remember and, indeed, it is often true that one awakens with the remnants of a dream quickly fading.
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November 17, 2007 05:53 PM EST --
"No good deed goes unpunished."
"Help someone out and you get screwed every time."
"Nice guys finish last."
We have many such cliches that reinforce . . . more
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August 11, 2007 09:52 PM EDT --
The word "money" has uncertain etymological origins, though it is probably derived from the Latin (of course) moneta which was a title given to the Roman god Juno whose temple was near to the . . . more
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November 19, 2007 02:01 PM EST --
The knee-jerk answer to this question, the one almost everyone gives without pausing even a micro-second to think about their response, the one on many people's lips much of the time, the one . . . more
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May 02, 2008 10:44 PM EDT --
If I were to tell you that I was exceptionally tall you would not take this as a statement of conceit or hubris. Either it would be a factual statement or a delusional one. In person, you . . . more
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July 18, 2007 12:26 AM EDT --
"I know that God is always on the side of right; my concern is not whether God is on our side but whether or not we are on God's side."
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July 26, 2007 09:39 PM EDT --
Often on Gather various people will post some kind of simple statement or elaborate essay outlining their position on a given issue or cultural phenomenon, staking out their position and inviting like . . . more
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July 17, 2007 09:33 AM EDT --
"The Good old hockey game is the best game you can name
and the best game you can name is the good old hockey game."
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August 07, 2007 02:01 PM EDT --
I was pondering the question which serves as the title of this piece, after participating in another conversation string here on Gather in which the idea of "common sense" was thrown out.
My . . . more
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August 19, 2006 09:03 AM EDT --
I'm not normally a picky person, though I do have my standards. When it comes to using a public washroom I'm not exactly a fanatic for sparkling cleanliness, but there is a level of filth beyond . . . more
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