Hands of Light

[RollickHooper]

HA good one.<br><br>I'm conflicted--I want to know but I don't want to know--mainly because I'll want to try to be helpful, or just be a friend, and it becomes obvious I'm just being codependent and acting out my own issues and--let me just spare you all that.<br><br>Will you tell us what "Project Willow" means? In a PM, if you prefer.<br>Sorry folks for going off-topic <p></p><i></i>

[Dreams End]

I have seen Project Willow's artwork. It is disturbing, moving and profound. Also quite well done from an artistic standpoint. I think your site has a lot to offer , PW, and I'd encourage you to share it more widely, but obviously it's your own comfort level that's important. <p></p><i></i>

[Project Willow]

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>I'm conflicted--I want to know but I don't want to know--mainly because I'll want to try to be helpful, or just be a friend, and it becomes obvious I'm just being codependent and acting out my own issues and--let me just spare you all that.<br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br> <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :lol --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/laugh.gif ALT=":lol"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> RH, if that's true, you're two steps ahead of most folks in terms of honesty and insight!<br><br>"I want to know but I don't want to know" is probably the most oft repeated line by viewers at my shows. Yeah, me too!<br><br>PW refers to a very unfortunate experiment. In broad terms, the goal was to determine a breaking point of a human under certain conditions.<br><br>Thanks Dream's End, hope you are well. <p></p><i></i>

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[Project Willow]

Hi SW,<br>Thank you. (tears flowing now...but the good kind)<br><br>I almost didn't survive willow, except for one thing. I was a kid, but I painted already. Somehow my connection to the creative, and to whatever force is behind the creative became a lifeline. If it weren't for that I wouldn't be here. Eventually I would like to see a memorial built for the kids who didn't make it.<br><br>I'm going to keep fighting, and I hope you do too, and that you heal and experience many joys. Someday, the world will know!<br><br>BTW, the little ones like chocolate cake, Ben & Jerry's ice cream, and would certainly enjoy a Dr. Pepper if offered one!<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START ;) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/wink.gif ALT=";)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i></i>

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[RollickHooper]

I'm a big fan of Tank Girl, you know who Tank Girl is, right? and I'm a big fan of riot grrrl punk music, and in the past I've made a point of buying Tank Girl comics and Grrrl-band CDs and giving them to teen-aged girls I know (great-nieces, daughters of friends--I'm not, like, approaching strange kids on the street or anything)--oh! and have you ever seen the movie "Freeway," about a very strong and independent girl who beats the crap out of her attacker? I've bought copies of that DVD and given them away as well. Point is I want to tell them all not to take any shit from anybody, but lately I'm beginning to wonder if it's my place, as a male-type person--like I know there are men who call themselves Feminists but it just sounds wrong to me. Anti-Patriarchy maybe, or even Pro-Feminist, but I just don't think it's right, a man calling himself a Feminist . . .<br>Anyway so I second-guess myself all the time but still--I sent this poem to AnnaLivia via Private Message in response to a comment she made some time back--you never commented on it, AnnaLiv--because I think it's a fucking great poem. It's by a WOMAN named Lucille Clifton:<br><br>LORENA<br><br>it lay in my palm soft and trembled<br>as a new bird and I thought about<br>authority and how it always insisted on<br>itself, how it was master of the man,<br>how it measured him,<br>never was ignored or denied<br>and how it promised there would be<br>sweetness if it was obeyed<br>just like the saints do, like the angels,<br>and I opened the window and held out<br>my uncupped hand. I swear to god,<br>I thought it could fly.<br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[robertdreed]

In doing energy work with the heart, I think it's helpful to keep this principle in mind--<br><br>The heart is not a simple pump. It's a gradient. <br><br>Someone told this to me a few months ago, and it transformed my understanding of how the human heart works in the body to maintain its equilibrium. It's much more subtle than suction, compression, and outflow. I got a rough outline of the details from the person who told me, and although I can't recall the technical specifics, it's made a difference to me intuitively ever since, while doing aerobic exercise. I think about the heart and circulation much differently. For one thing, I now have a rational understanding of why the goal of maximal cardiac fitness has nothing to do with attempting to build up the ultimate expansion and the biggest surge possible for the heart muscle! It's much more about steadiness, pace, balance, and suffusion. Exercise increases intensity, to be sure, but modelling the heart simply as a pump, like a water pump, isn't the proper metaphor. <p></p><i></i>

[Project Willow]

It's my night to cry...<br><br>SW, I think Soul Warrier fits perfectly.<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Space wanted a lifeline too recently because of the nightmares. He asked if I could tie some yarn around his ankle and then tie that to my bed so that he would not go far away into the past and have nightmares. <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Wow, how strange, I used to do that too! I did it to stop myself from being taken out of the house at night, or at least being able to tell if I had gone anywhere. The weird thing was in the morning I could never remember how the knot had looked the night before.<br><br>RH, that poem is beautiful. <p></p><i></i>

[Avalon]

Beautiful? It's extraordinarily evocative, but under the circumstances I don't think "beautiful" is a word I'd want to use.<br><br>Er, you do understand who the Lorena it's about is?<br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[RollickHooper]

That was my reaction too Avalon--"beautiful" is not the word I'd have chosen.<br><br>JAI Lorena Bobbitt nee Gallo <p></p><i></i>

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[RollickHooper]

If you don't know the story of Lorena, sw, don't trouble yourself with looking it up--it's not a pretty story. <p></p><i></i>

[Avalon]

Lorena cut off the penis of her abusive husband while he slept, and threw it out the window of her car as she drove away.<br><br>"Goddess" is not a word I'd use for her.<br><br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>

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