LotR bedroom

budgielover posted about this:

Here is a beautiful LotRs-themed bedroom, check out this clip from our local TV Channel. Channel 3 ran a 4-minute special on the murals and decor created for a child; murals, a Rivendell bed, an Ent - the room is just breathtaking. And at the end is a short clip with Elijah.

It starts out talking about a baseball player - just stick with it and the LotRs part starts after 20 or 30 seconds. The room is UNBELIEVABLE.

Here's the link: http://www.azfamily.com/video/archives/webcast.html
Scroll down the page until you come to "Lord of the Rings Bedroom." They do want you to register before they let you access the webcasts, so you could make up some silly registration just so you can get to the clip. [Peg: or go to http://bugmenot.com] It is worth it.
*whimper*

Cat dials 911

No, really.

After 9/11 Fear Destroys What Bin Laden Could Not

Here is an op-ed by Robert Steinbeck in the Miami Herald that deserves a wide audience.

One wonders if Osama bin Laden didn't win after all. He ruined the America that existed on 9/11. But he had help.

If, back in 2001, anyone had told me that four years after bin Laden's attack our president would admit that he broke U.S. law against domestic spying and ignored the Constitution -- and then expect the American people to congratulate him for it -- I would have presumed the girders of our very Republic had crumbled.

Had anyone said our president would invade a country and kill 30,000 of its people claiming a threat that never, in fact, existed, then admit he would have invaded even if he had known there was no threat -- and expect America to be pleased by this -- I would have thought our nation's sensibilities and honor had been eviscerated.

Read the entire op-ed here.

Comforting Things in the Dead of Winter

1. A cashmere shawl my parents brought back for me from Italy.

2. Slipper socks.

3. Hot mulled wine.

4. Fairy lights strung up where the wall meets the ceiling in my office.

5. A purring cat on one's lap, live or mechanical.

6. Moisturizer.

7. A hot bath.

8. A message or letter from a friend.

9. Candles.

10. Vietnamese pho.

embodiment

The embodiment community is rather neat. I've been keeping a journal, as I have said, for many, many years, and I've followed pretty much the same process all that time. It has been great fun to see what other people can do with a journal. Pictures! Collages! Wow, what beautiful handwriting. I never thought of doing that.

Hmm. I have written in my journal with nothing but a black Bic pen for years. Decades.

What if I tried something really radically different, for, say a month? Nothing but sketches, with colored pencils? Or . . . ? *ponders*

I have been aware that I need to break out of ruts. Perhaps this is a way I can experiment a bit.