this is sort of a continuation of the discussion that is happening on a few of my blog sites about the sheer frustration that a lot of people are voicing about the nature of a lot of the work that they see being recognized or, for lack of a better term, rewarded.
Recognition has always been a very fickle thing. Trends come and go in publishing and academia. They come and go in popularity as well. What has changed dramatically over the past f
this morning I wrote the title to this post…and then…things happened and now it is going on 4 in the afternoon and I am just sitting down to write it.
But…over on CV we have been going back and forth (about the stunning effects of sports bras it would seem) but also about some of the current attitudes about how one goes about learning something.
yesterday I had sort of a…fine and slight brush with the strangeness of what it is people think they need in order to get something done.
It is funny how we will set our own barriers in place to prevent ourselves from doing things and then call them by all sorts of names that then rationalize our…dis-involvement.
I am fortunate, in some ways, that after my initial – pissed-offness – I then
sometimes you get caught up in your immediate thing so much you forget something that is important…I have been locked away working and doing a million things over the holiday, which really isn’t a holiday for me, I work from home and there is all that.
But I got a note this morning from my Zia friend that his little daughter had been chosen to be the Indian princess in the Buffalo dance and he was on his way to sing her down from the mountai
have you ever had one of those conversations where a few hours later you realize you only said half of what you meant to say?
I had one yesterday but at least I was able to sort of finish it up later in the evening, albeit with a different person. The conversation was about the destructive nature of life, particularly of human beings. Initially I agreed that we are very destructive. What I didn’t have it together to say was that it is not our nature but what we have become.
The nat… Continue
Added by cassandra tribe on December 24, 2009 at 7:38am —
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I have been having this run on spam of the amorous nature. Do you remember when I had a wild hair and went and filled out the match.com questionnaires and a few others? Well now I get all this spam about meeting lonely housewives and offers on Viagra.
Curiousity, sometimes, should be left in the realm of dreams.
Occasionally I read the spam and it is…interesting.
I am working on a section of the Language of Famine in which Queen Famine is described as walking about between t… Continue
Added by cassandra tribe on December 23, 2009 at 3:39am —
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I have really hit maximum with people behaving in thoughtless ways because they are used to not having to behave with consideration.
So I made an absolute mess in the apartment (which has nothing in it and is quite a feat since I own nothing) and finished my little project and feel better.
There are times when, in order to make change happen, you have to take steps to make sure that everyone around you is either responding to the change and supporting it or – they are gone.… Continue
Added by cassandra tribe on December 22, 2009 at 4:28am —
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You can think all the good thoughts in the world. You can be perfect in compassion in your head but if you do not do something that is outside of yourself then it is nothing more than self indulgence.
You can think all the bad, evil nasty thoughts you like and if your actions are
so…I posted earlier this morning and someone was kind enough to point out that at the end of the post there was a host markup in html that listed the prior owner of my laptops name.
I just upgraded firefox and it seems like when I write in Word and then copy and paste it is now carrying over all of this BS. I went through the computer and realized all her info was still in it, buried in address books that Word is now assigning to all my documents.
Now the funny thing is…talk about timing…given… Continue
Added by cassandra tribe on December 20, 2009 at 11:42am —
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it is snowing…it has been snowing since late last night, the first storm of the year. In Rhode Island the joke has always been that people panic and go out and buy all the bread and milk they can before a snowstorm. Just in case you know, power goes out or whatever, not thinking that if power goes out where are you going to keep the milk?
Yesterday was different, I got phone calls from people who had gone out (for bread and
so…when I left off blogging in a storm of uncertainty and pain and everything after what could possibly count as the worst 8 days of my life (and if you have followed my blog for a bit then you know that is something) I had no idea what was going to happen next.
I was at the point where I wanted to give everything up.
Theft is extremely intrusive. No matter how the theft occurs – a house robbery, a car being broken into, your identity being stolen. It can shatter your belief in a level of safe… Continue
Added by cassandra tribe on December 18, 2009 at 4:57am —
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I am taking an indefinite break from blogging and all of my other online things.
Watch the blog for the next artist feature sometime within the next two months.
And I will see you in Mexico.
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Added by cassandra tribe on December 8, 2009 at 6:31am —
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I got the phone and internet turned on late last night. It has been a 7 day three ring circus of nobody knowing anything, saying anything and then me calling back in to say “what the hell is happening?”
But it is on.
I am sitting here, contemplating beets for breakfast because it is all that is in the house. I was supposed to go grocery shoppin
what do you do when something you thought about yourself, as part of one the core natures of your being, may prove to be nothing more than a …pipedream that you have been years carefully rationalizing and constructing a reality to support?
That is the funny thing about reality, it’s not all that real at all. There is my reality, your reality, the reality we share as a community and a slightly different version for each increasingly large group that we identify with. We miss that when we throw t… Continue
Added by cassandra tribe on December 7, 2009 at 3:55am —
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The Little Flower Presents
Donna Morgan:
American Painter
Your potential depends on how you manifest action
into any agenda, whether it be one's own or another's, the individual figures.
These figures are like writing on any life. Even though at times things seemed pre destined, the potential for multiple upon multiple variations exists. The writings on one's life, so to speak.
The four lives at the top come from the two lives in the middle (kept in brackets. They a… Continue
Added by cassandra tribe on December 2, 2009 at 9:20am —
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Last night I went and tried to see a movie at an insanely large mall. Through a series of circumstances beyond anyone’s control, I wound up having to wait in the mall for over 4 hours.
By the time my movie partners finally showed I was a basket case and they had to very gently remove me from the mall, take me home and put me to bed.
Now, granted it was black friday but I think it had more to do with the fact that being in a mall is the kind of environment and cultural experien… Continue
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