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I don't know how many of you read Cody's blog although I'm sure at least one of you do. He's posted the following from the Milwaukee Journal and I rather like it. It makes me think of the Lovest of the Low song with the lines "this is year zero, the monday of your life"

"There's something about the hanging of a new calendar that makes us mull how we'll fill the days and months to come. We cannot help but wonder whether stepping over the threshold between last year and this can spur us to live as we'd truly like to live. It's strange, isn't it, how many of us inhabit an existence we don't prefer? There are scores of reasons why we do it--because of habit or duty, dedication or inertia, and too often because we don't dare to imagine we might rise up from the ashes of the past as some lovelier creature than we were yesterday. We abide with what we know--not just because we must, but because we can't see beyond our own circumstances."

8.7.05 19:06

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Vanessa (10.7.05 05:29)
I really like the last sentence from that exerpt. It's fantastic.

(10.7.05 09:17)
I find the third more interesting. I've been thinking about happiness lately. What makes me happy, what makes other people happy, what I can do to help them be happy, what they can do for me et al.
I watch P's kids and they seem to have all the happy stuff down pat. Don't always put the right shoe onthe right foot, but gosh they can have themselves a good time. They drink or do drugs, and true, they do have someone to cook and clean for them (which would only give most of us more time that we would squander) and it just makes me wonder if some people forget how to be happy.

Vanessa (10.7.05 21:05)
I think it's possible that some people forget how to be happy. Truly happy. From my observations, it seems that certain types of people prefer to be miserable. They're almost happy being depressed. Actually, in the play "Closer", there's this great dialogue about people like that. I'd try to paraphrase it, but I'm a little short on words today.
ps. moosie said you wanted to email me. feel free!!! it's mindless_cliche@hotmail.com . Cheers!