Natural Attachment

February 15, 2011

weather, quotations & writing

Filed under: Entertainment,Life — Tags: , , , , , , , — michele james-parham @ 7:10 pm

I’m loving the weather right now; it’s so manic. We’re expecting 60 degrees here in Pittsburgh on Thursday and the last few days have been around 50 degrees! In February, in Pittsburgh, insane.

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While researching a quotation yesterday, I stumbled unto this awesome website/blog called Street Anatomy. I was kind of struck by this post.

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I said this today:

“Life ain’t easy and sometimes, it just feels like swimming upstream in a river of molasses – rich, sticky and sweet, but it’s still thick and hard to tread through.”

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I finished rereading Opening Up on Sunday. I still think there are some bits in the book that are fairly invalidating for both those seeking to open up their relationship and those whose partner is seeking to open up their relationship. Overall, though, it’s a good book for a person to read who is curious or contemplating opening up their monogamous relationship. It’s nice that it covers all kinds of different relationship structures AND explains that it’s not just about getting more sex and in fact, you can open up a relationship purely for emotional intimacy with many partners and not have sex with any of them – this might clear up the misconception that a lot of people have about sex being the reason for nonmonogamy.

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I’ve started writing again. In little bits and fusses, but writing just the same. Some of it is poetry and some of it is just stream of consciousness scrawling. I’ll share things as I finish them. Writing lately has been extremely therapeutic in general – even this blog (which I have kept going for  25 days straight – that’s almost a month of blogging and that’s a first for me!).

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Hopefully, Networked Blogs won’t forget about this post like it forgot about yesterday’s post.

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A Facebook friend posted this blog link tonight – beautiful concept and artwork.

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February 5, 2011

birthday week 2011 – day 7 (wind down & linky love)

Today is the last day of my birthday week. I’m winding down.

Going to clean up Legos off the floor so that the almost one year old that I kidsit for tomorrow doesn’t try to eat them.

I see that doing dishes are in my near future.

It’s another beautiful Winter day; currently it’s 38 degrees F and bright and sunny. Almost feels like early Spring.

Unschooling parents are lazy

And so what if we are?

Speaking of ‘Unschooling’, if you are looking for nuggets to strew or you are just looking for a new blog with cool things, try over here.

Desecration (remember, there’s roll-over text people)

Also, Thaddeus Russell’s book, A Renegade History of the United States, came up in a Facebook conversation. Open your mind, drop your white progressive liberal pc politics for a minute and read it.

And then, if you still want something else to read, but are looking for something not so serious, try:  A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words: Used At the Present Day in the Streets of London (1860), by John Camden Hotten

And, last but definitely not least, go check out my Dear Other Half‘s Flickr sets.

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May 2, 2009

A little blog-arranging

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , — michele james-parham @ 4:04 pm

I’ve added a few new links on the left. I added some more blogs that I frequent and cleaned a few more links up. So, have a peek.

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"Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it." ~ Brene Brown