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All posts for the day January 16th, 2007

The Note

Posted by tokenhippygirl on January 16, 2007
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I just opened up my note for the day.

Let me explain… Every day we have to be away from each other, for the last three and a half years, I’ve received a note from my sweetie. I think, in all that time, she’s only missed two or three. It usually works like this… I go to work, at some point open my wallet, or my lunch bag (it can be in either place), and there it is… words of love from my Karen. It is sometimes just a quick I love you, or maybe a quote she found and liked, and sometimes she writes about how she misses me, just because she’s away from me during the day.

Right now, if you’ve been reading this blog, you know she’s out of town for a week on business. So today, as I did yesterday, and will through Saturday morning this week, I opened one in a stack of notes on the counter. Each is labeled with the day and piled in order. I was strongly instructed, before she left, that I wasn’t to open anything until the proper day. Today I opened “tuesday”.

Here’s what it said…

neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, love… that is the soul of genius.

It was signed “I love you”.

I’m miss her, but… I’m happy. How could I be anything else? I’m loved.

Winter Wonderland… Continued

Posted by tokenhippygirl on January 16, 2007
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The Front Deck

The, More Protected, Back Deck

Wow… It’s been crazy around here. Where do we live? The midwest? Alaska? New England? No I say… and yet… wow. It’s been cold here, for us. We’ve been hanging around in the teens and twenties for what, a week and a half now? Something like that anyway. And now, today, during a week we were supposed to be slowly warming, and dry… we get this… again.

Don’t get me wrong. I love it. It’s completely beautiful. But geez… a girl can’t get out of the house in this. Nor, I guess, should I try. They’ve been advising against leaving your home all morning on the news… and they still are. Before this started we still had a good two or three inches here at our house. It hadn’t melted off yet from last week. I guess you’d say, in mountain ski condition terms, that we had a 2 inch base. It’s made a nice little foundation for what came down, and is still coming down today.

As I look out the window from our home office, it’s stopped snowing… oh…nope… it’s starting again. Just when I thought it was safe to look up. It seems a bit lighter out there, but the skies still look like snow. You all know what I mean… that gray, slightly darkish, heavy look. Very descriptive don’t ya think?

Ah well… there’s nothing I can do but appreciate the beauty in it, grab another cup of tea, and enjoy the hush snow always seems to bring. It is, actually, lovely after all.

Dr. King’s Day

Posted by tokenhippygirl on January 16, 2007
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The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
Martin Luther King Jr., “Strength to Love”

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Martin Luther King Jr., Accepting Nobel Peace Prize, Dec. 10, 1964

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Martin Luther King Jr., December 11, 1964

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
Martin Luther King Jr., ‘Strength to Love,’ 1963

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars… Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
Martin Luther King Jr.