Gaia Community: Bridjet's Blog

I have a pen pal

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:39:52 -0000

It's strange, It's fun, It pushes my elastic boundaries and each small communication blip leaves me smiling. I have not had a pen pal since before I was a teenager. And the strange thing about this person is that everytime I compare us, we come up opposite. Sun signs: Cancer (me) Capricorn (them) - opposite signs. Venus in: Gemini (me) Sagittarius (them) - opposite signs. Female (me) Male (them) - opposite genders. Married (me) Probably never getting married (them) - opposite commitments. These are only a few examples. YET even stranger we have fantastic discourse about a range of topics, and it could be that because of our opposite natures, we are able to 'see' more of life's varied expressions. It is almost as if through the paradox we find our commonalities: both artists, musicians, and writers who love love love exponentially no matter what.
Anyhow, MG, you rock! And I am happy to have found you.

Saturn and the Catalonian

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:17:04 -0000

Only Saturn can calm Life's shifting sands
long enough to uncover my Catalonian
with jewel-eyes plucked from the Mediterranean
who left like a lover, though always a friend.
Sparkle-eyed beauty of years past -
I though passion too fleeting to last
after years of friendship only.
Tell me why I feel so lonely
without the warmth of ancient fire
that burns with much more than desire
more than lust, much more than greed?
I find his shadow in many deed, a seed
I didn't want planted without me
across the vast grey didtant sea
in a surrealist home I've never known
so very far from my own.

Saturn reveals the turning points in life.
Includes my fears of 17, confusion in strife.
The one who wears the Crown of Aragon
could not convince my heart to be torn
away to his beloved home, and beyond...
Back then a year seemed impossibly long,
and now it passes to fast to grasp!
Across the sea, too far to travel -
Oh, inner strife and fear does now unravel
the decade like your blinking eyes
holding back, unable to lie.
My heart-star about to explode
in realizing I couldn't wait to be old.

And now I am aged and more awake.
I stay in one place, I live on a lake
tending to those who have filled this decade.
Many promises and memories we've made,
together we've weathered such violent storms,
managed to build a loving home and grow
into something not easily torn apart -
intertwined in time, soul, child, heart...
But Saturn is mischevious mystery,
testiing each detail of personal history
So I found my friend once again!
Successful and happy he's been!
I can't help but share on that positivity,
let it penetrate and inspire me,
let it add to my eternal fire of Hope,
turning it into words, clay and color, to cope
with the emotions that take over me
when I think of what could now be
if I let him sail my heart across that sea,
knowing it would never truly leave!
I'd have had no choice but to chase after it -
leading me to a place I'll not ever get
to now.

Stefan's Grandpa

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:15:04 -0000

My brother moon! I was filled with excitement

To share experience of life & enlightenment

To relieve

Soon it was my Grandpa's time to reunite

With loved ones beyond the veil

I felt dead

You were there, helped me be the Phoenix

The Mountain, the Beginning after the End

Alive again

I'll never forget your compassion, sincere condolence

However impossible it is to reciprocate, know this:

Hearts will mend

My heart did, after you disappeared I resolved

To making friends with all the fears

In my head

I held my family close after taking them for granted

I swore I wouldn't waste time chasing for

What never was

Glad to create the strong circle of caring people

To find my mate was not in Puget, but on my doorstep

My Last Because

"The only constant in Life is Change" - Remember?

Learning the same from losses and gains

Life's true beauty

Orwell Comes To America November 7th at the NYPL!!

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:47:28 -0000

TITLE: There You Go Again: Orwell Comes to America

TEASER: Top experts, journalists and luminaries to debate politics and propaganda at the New York Public Library.

BODY: When George Orwell wrote the influential essay “Politics and the English Language” 60 years ago, he must have foreseen the ever-widening gulf between truth and politics in America. On November 7th a major public conference is being held at the Celeste Bartos Forum presented by Live at the NYPL in collaboration with three leading journalism schools, UC Berkley, Columbia and USC’s Annenberg School of Communication, with support from the Open Society Institute. This conference will feature George Soros, political consultants Frank Luntz, George Lakoff and Drew Westen, FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps along with many other influential commentators, inspired by Orwell’s essay. The panelists will explore the past and present of political propaganda, the latest developments in political communication and manipulation, addressing the role of the media and if an honest public debate is promoted. This conference will launch a new anthology titled What Orwell Didn’t Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics, published by PublicAffairs, featuring original essays by Mark Danner, Frances Fitzgerald, Michael Massing, Victor Navasky, Francine Prose, David Rieff, George Soros and Patricia Williams. For detailed program information visit www.thereyougoagain.com. Tickets can be purchased by calling (212) 868-4444 or visiting the New York Public Library’s website, www.nypl.org.

If you could rename the internet, what would you call it?

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:50:27 -0000

addictnet.

What's the most important thing that happened to you this month?

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:54:25 -0000

Finding out I am pregnant and due on my own birthday in June was the most importantly exciting and exhilerating experience this month. A close second was telling my family the news as they are full of support and happiness for us. The third is telling my boss and him telling me not to worry about getting in right away in the morning (because I have total morning sickness!) and I won't have to use my sick time for the time missed! I feel so incredibly blessed...!!!

Who do you feel most similar to?

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:43:18 -0000

I have a cousin who is one month older than I am, the beautiful Carisa. Everyone thinks we are sisters because we look alike and are very close, but our mothers are sisters. Although life has taken us down different paths, she is who I feel most similar to. I have a husband, house, child(ren) - a more stable path perhaps. She has lovers, a few places to crash, and two little dogs - a less stable path. But we have the same things at our core: unlimited love to give, a creative soul that cannot stop expressing, a strong work ethic and a penchant for the unknown. I am so thankful to have her in my life!!!!!

Could you do what you're doing now for the rest of your life?

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:20:33 -0000

I am an Administrative Assistant and I truly enjoy assisting other people to help them reach their goals and help the company that pays me to reach their goals. But I have never made my job or career a major part of my identity. I am a creative person and I have a job to pay the bills and to facilitate my creative endeavors. I expect that if I become popular in those endeavors, that I will be making money doing what I love, which is truly the ideal I strive for. I, however, understand that our society does not compensate their creative population as well as those in more analytical professions. At least in the USA I do not feel we are in any type of renissance period, too busy starting wars and bailing out big business and other such cursed calamity. So, could I do what I'm doing now for the rest of my life? The answer is yes and no.

What made you choose your profile picture?

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:08:48 -0000

Funny I just changed my profile pic 2 days ago. I was just bored with the previous one. Also I sortof look like this butterfly alien fairy, minus the wings, but if I had wings they would be like the Purplish Copper that inspired the wings on this painting. And my hair is only firey in the sunlight. Also I have feet.

My Backyard (Early Autumn)

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:15:49 -0000

I walk through grass lengthened by the rain

And an unusually warm September

Squirrels perched like one hundred furry ornaments

Ravage bunches of black walnuts

And send them roll-thumping down the roof

The lake cools the breeze before it comes to me

Dragonflies ride invisible pogo sticks

Landing on spent lily stems or the back of my hand

Curious bees sniff and circle and I keep still

I am the only one who need not forage

Just to harvest the orange-green swirled tomatoes

And spend time at the market once a week

I Wonder

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:12:24 -0000

I wonder how I knew

So long ago, so young...

Was it the way he stared at me?

His complimentary tongue?

That time and space were fleeting?

Or the work of his words?

I was still a moonlit teen

But for once my soul was heard.

And now, now, now

Some-teen years have past:

Life-as-nutshell conversation

Knowing the love did last

I lay and wonder how I knew

So young, so long ago...

We'd be star-crossed for decades

But back to him my river flows

Sad but beautiful

Like no other happiness

To feel his whisper-breath

His long-awaited kiss

Knowing it's not forever yet

Well, maybe not at all

But all the time we spent apart

Was nothing I could recall

Once he had his arms around me

Once he held his gaze upon me

The Sky In Our Moment

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:11:03 -0000

I gaze into you

Through those Venus spheres you call eyes

The storm shortly subsides

You heart light shines through your alabaster skin

The sky in our moment bright like glowing robins egg

40 minutes until the rain returns

Until gray clouds sweep across twilight

Until the day leaves our union early

And night swallows light behind shadows

I bare all for you

My heart and knees and in-between

Shaking like poplar trees

Withstanding the wind, I bask in your heart

The sky in our moment bright like asteroid showers

14 minutes until we stop the rock storm

Until my eyes match the cloudy atmosphere

Until I crawl out from the black hole

And set out into the starry night

Lies & Ivy

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:08:48 -0000

Lies are like poison ivy.

When tromping through the woods

Its blazing leaves are easily identified

You expect it to be there, and to avoid it.

Suffering long pants in the humid afternoon

And a naptha bath when returning -

You hope you've been careful enough...

Wounded distraction is all the poison needs:

An open cut on the arm and a slip down the river bank.

Mimicking infection, spreading rapidly...

Even after being found out for what it really is,

It really is too late.

Lies are like poison ivy.

When tromping through Life

Conceptual digression is easily marked -

You expect it could be there, and to avoid it.

Suffering the body's silent language

And a conversation evaluation before sleeping -

You hope you've been careful enough...

Moral distraction is all the lie needs:

A couple bruises on the heart and a slip down the rabbit hole.

Mimicking truth, spreading rapidly...

Even after being found out for what it really is,

It really is too late.

If a child asked you about God, how would you answer?

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:06:55 -0000

I keep expecting this question from my almost-4 year old. What I have planned to say is that God is the name that people give the wonderous invisible force behind Life. That God is in everything we experience, and that God lives in everything, including people, including him. Also that God is not vengeful, and is always conspiring to give us what we most need when we need it, and that we, in turn, need to respect everything that God has made, and to have compassion for those who do not yet see this interconnectedness and omnipresence instead of fighting over who is right.

Give me a week...

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 22:07:27 -0000

This is WAY better than MySpace - Just give me a week and I'll be converted ! WOO!