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EveDestiny
from somewhere in the Known Universe
It didn't have to be this way.
Interests: Rapacious reader and lover of all words in my Mater Lingua, even the profane ones. Has been known to hike, cook, tend plants, and occasionally cause a commotion. Prefers animals to most people.
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Go Away ... aka A Travel Law, Continued
“Why do you go away? So that you can come back." ~ Terry Pratchett, "A Hat Full of Sky" Continue reading
Posted Jul 16, 2022 at EveDestiny's Vox
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Do you remember the Wicked Witch of the West skywriting "Surrender, Dorothy" in "The Wizard of Oz"? That phrase has become iconic for so many. I am still working out what I think about the surrender concept/First Law of Travel (now I wonder how many Laws of Travel there are, ha). I know I believe that strength, both physical and mental, is increased via challenges: weights for muscles, endurance training for body-mind, and yes, mentally as well (those acres of depression have to be worth something). The law is definitely ZEN in nature. That's all I have concluded so far.
Toggle Commented May 9, 2022 on "AirB&B's" First Law of Travel Commercial at EveDestiny's Vox
"AirB&B's" First Law of Travel Commercial
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Just how powerful is travel, really? Continue reading
Posted May 9, 2022 at EveDestiny's Vox
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21.5.2 Why limit happy to an hour?
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(Source: https://www.ziggosparty.com/) The COVID pandemic and resulting quarantining and working at home has given many of us a revelation in work/life balance. It also stole friend-time (or coworker time) and all the socialization that goes with that. A good friend of mine lives with her sister; they have a lovely,... Continue reading
Posted Jun 14, 2021 at EveDestiny's Vox
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21.5.3 ITP and OTP #Atlanta
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“Patriotism is a gateway drug to fascism. Tribalism is the gateway to racism.” ― Oliver Markus Malloy, Inside The Mind of an Introvert Continue reading
Posted Jun 7, 2021 at EveDestiny's Vox
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21.5.1 when last we spoke
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“Letting go doesn’t mean giving up, but rather accepting that there are things that cannot be.” ~ Unknown Continue reading
Posted May 17, 2021 at EveDestiny's Vox
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21.2.1 #Vaxed (not #vaxxed, which is a psuedoscience attack on the scientific efficacy of vaccinations)
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I got my first of two corona virus shots yesterday. I originally meant to get it on February 17th, but Mother Nature and two back-to-back winter storms (gee, thanks, Shirley and Uri) planned otherwise. It was the Pfizer dose, and I'll have to go back for the booster in a... Continue reading
Posted Feb 23, 2021 at EveDestiny's Vox
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21.1.2 the Undiscover'd Country
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"To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveller returns ...." The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark, William Shakespeare, Act III, Scene I Continue reading
Posted Jan 27, 2021 at EveDestiny's Vox
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21.1.1 This breaks the world.
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America: A Nation of Poorly Behaved Children “The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.” ~ Socrates Continue reading
Posted Jan 9, 2021 at EveDestiny's Vox
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Slow down or fall down
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A couple years ago, maybe even as many as three years ago, I had lunch with a friend. She expressed concern that I was pushing myself too hard. She said to me, "If you don't give yourself some time, your body will make you take it." She was telling me... Continue reading
Posted Jan 24, 2020 at EveDestiny's Vox
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Slowly Out of True
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Honorary entry from 1/17/20: This writing actually was penned by me back in 2016 -- August 12, 2016 -- and it rings still quite close to home, although I have far more hope (and a plan) now than I did then. Things still seem badly wonky, very "out of true."... Continue reading
Posted Jan 21, 2020 at EveDestiny's Vox
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Waking Up at Home
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Honorary entry from 1/10/20: I left a hectic wet place to arrive in a dry expansive one. And where the sun extended and the wind refreshed, I could see myself remaining there, waking up at home. Continue reading
Posted Jan 21, 2020 at EveDestiny's Vox
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Now this is truly PRONOIA at its finest.
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Update and errant thought: In the spirit of New...
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Update and errant thought: In the spirit of New Decade, New Me -- and channeling Opposite George (amusing Seinfeld reference) -- perhaps I will try embracing this mindset for a bit. "What's the worst that could happen?" Gulp. Continue reading
Posted Jan 3, 2020 at EveDestiny's Vox
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Words, words, mere words ...
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"Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart: The effect doth operate another way." ~ Troilus, from the Shakespearean play, "Troilus and Cressida" Continue reading
Posted Jan 3, 2020 at EveDestiny's Vox
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Almost Over
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"It could be me, who's to blame. I think I need a lick of paint." ~ from the song by Frightened Rabbit Continue reading
Posted Dec 31, 2019 at EveDestiny's Vox
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A better Saganist, redux
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Sharing more greatness and prescience that was Carl Sagan: “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too... Continue reading
Posted Jan 15, 2019 at EveDestiny's Vox
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A better Saganist
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In some more perfect universe, I'm a better Saganist. For today, in this universe, I channel him better. “One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.” ― Carl Sagan Continue reading
Posted Jan 14, 2019 at EveDestiny's Vox
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Whether or Not You Believe
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"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” ~ Carl Sagan, "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark" Continue reading
Posted Jan 12, 2019 at EveDestiny's Vox
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Choose to Forget
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Sometimes I stumble across a memory, and it's like clobbering my shin on a coffee table. I may have lived my life, vividly and overblown for much of the time, yet that is not insurance that all the memories are indelibly fired into the coils of my brain. Sometimes a... Continue reading
Posted Dec 27, 2018 at EveDestiny's Vox
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Uncomfortable and Miraculous
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“After an endless, brain-suffocating procession of days where I could not see past the day’s end and its sinking sun, and wanting nothing more than to never see it come up again, to not have to do any of *this* anymore ... to now be able to again imagine a future and re-inhabit my own skin, to see far enough to dream again, and hope, and have this turnaround come in less than a year and a day … it’s the closest thing to a miracle* I have ever known.” ~ EveDestiny Continue reading
Posted Dec 19, 2018 at EveDestiny's Vox
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Articulate and waiting ... .
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“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.” ― Anne Rice Continue reading
Posted Dec 10, 2018 at EveDestiny's Vox
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Conflict Pearls
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“All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.” ~ Federico Fellini Continue reading
Posted Dec 1, 2018 at EveDestiny's Vox
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Even the Victimized Don't Empathize (and that's what dooms us)
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The problem is the PRICE, not the PERFORMANCE. Continue reading
Posted Nov 30, 2017 at EveDestiny's Vox
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Limits of Solitude
After ruminating once again on the dark joy that is everything Rust Cohle said in "True Detective" (Season One, which is the only season in my opinion), I stumbled across Thomas Ligotti, who wrote "The Conspiracy Against the Human Race." One quote from Ligotti rang especially pure and high painful... Continue reading
Posted Aug 22, 2016 at EveDestiny's Vox
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