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Headlines, Part 1 2007-07-24 18:42:00 This will be an ongoing post taken from headlines in one of our National Newspapers. I read today that the United Nations is investigating allegations of widespread sexual abuse by hundreds of Moroccan peacekeepers serving in the Ivory Coast. All 800 troops, an entire battalion, are being held in barracks until the investigation is finished. The abuse involved soldiers having sex with a large ...

Being my own. 2007-07-23 20:37:00 I don't know about you but for me, at some point just recently in my life, I decided I just couldn't keep waiting to find out who the rest of the world wanted me to be. And by world, I mean those I know, those I've met, and those who have influenced me throughout my life. It is really a terrible feeling to not know who you are, to not know how to act, what to say, what to do. It feels like such a ...

2 weeks to the rest of my life!! 2007-07-22 11:17:00 Well, I gave my two week notice at work yesterday and it felt like I was breaking up with a girlfriend. I really do enjoy my boss and the other women who work there, but I have to keep doing what I know is in my own best interest at this point. I've spent a lifetime, so far, making decisions based on how I think other people will feel, or based on what I think other people want or need. Always ...

When the Emotional Sea is calm...Now what? 2007-07-21 11:52:00 It's funny how when I experience something intense, anything intense, and it passes, there lingers this belief that I need more of it or something else equally intense to take it's place. The body and mind seem to be so fluid, in one sense, but also desiring to hold some form more or less continuously in another. I guess, in other words, the body/mind seems to be highly conditional, and this ...

A Giant Among A Colony of Ants! 2007-07-19 19:54:00 Today is one of those days where I feel like a giant among a colony of scurrying ants! A day where everything seems like such a small affair and everyone seems so moved by it all. Of course, a feeling like this is not meant to last, that would be utterly dysfunctional, but in those moments when it washes over me like a cool breeze, it is quite a nice reprieve from the hum-drum of moving bodies ...

Peace, where can it be found? 2007-07-18 23:59:00 I noticed yesterday, even in the depths of an uncontrollable tantrum of emotion and heartache, that the core of my being remained still and silent throughout it all. I'm not just saying that either, it is absolutely true. I noticed this core of stillness not only when I allowed myself a momentarily reprieve from convulsively crying and yelling but even right smack dab in the middle of my grief, ...

The Raging Sea of Emotional Turmoil 2007-07-17 23:25:00 I can hardly remember a time in my life where I have felt more emotional turmoil rage in my body then it has been raging recently. I have noticed how I have always denied my emotions, to the point where feeling bad, feeling alone, feeling isolated, feeling despair was natural, like what life was supposed to be like in my skin. I was the martyr of the world, and yet no one knew it but me and even ...

Forver Lovin' Jah!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2007-07-15 17:58:00 ...

From the depths of Despair 2007-07-15 17:13:00 Hello everyone. This is my very first blog entry and I would just like to say hello and I hope this entry finds you happy and healthy wherever you may be reading it from. I have felt the desire to share myself with the world for quite a long time but never quite found my voice until now. Even now, the words are not flowing as easily as I would hope, but I'm sure that is just a matter of time and ...