From: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org (eda-thoughts-digest) To: eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Subject: eda-thoughts-digest V1 #291 Reply-To: eda-thoughts@smoe.org Sender: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk eda-thoughts-digest Friday, November 20 1998 Volume 01 : Number 291 * If you ever wish to unsubscribe, send an email to * eda-thoughts-digest-request@smoe.org with ONLY * the word unsubscribe in the body of the email * . * PLEASE :) when you reply to this digest to send a post TO the list, * change the subject to reflect what your post is about. A subject * of Re: eda-thoughts-digest V1 #xxx or the like gives readers no clue * as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: ET: Spirit [Angeljlb96@aol.com] Re: ET: Spirit ["Kevin Pease" ] ET: a few rambling poems [winters ] ET: AN ANGEL WROTE.... [mandabear4@juno.com (Mandabear four)] ET: Re: Help Angels [Jason Vierling ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 04:19:56 EST From: Angeljlb96@aol.com Subject: Re: ET: Spirit In a message dated 98-11-18 05:54:19 EST, you write: << I couldnt be more happy or impressed! >> That's what I'm trying to say!!! As soon as Deep Water started (I heard it today at Cilla's cuz I was working till 10 last night) I was screaming I LOVE THIS ALBUM!! CIlla and Laura were laughing at me the whole time because I had only heard 1 or 2 songs, and I was already in love all over again. I think my favorite's Jupiter...with Absence of Fear coming in a close second (which is Cilla's favorite...I think =)). Overall...I was just very impressed, and overly satisfied with the result of a 3 and a half year wait =) Love, Jamie ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 16:04:33 -0500 From: "Kevin Pease" Subject: Re: ET: Spirit >> Jamie writes: >That's what I'm trying to say!!! As soon as Deep Water started (I heard it >today at Cilla's cuz I was working till 10 last night) I was screaming I LOVE >THIS ALBUM!! [...] Overall...I was just very impressed, and >overly satisfied with the result of a 3 and a half year wait =) [mildly dissenting opinion follows... read at your own risk.] :) I guess I'm one of the few people who aren't totally into Spirit, then... I've listened to it four times so far but - and don't get me wrong, there are some excellent moments on the CD - the new cd's just not getting it done for me. Maybe it's because I've heard live versions of a lot of these songs already, I don't know. Down So Long is *good*... Deep Water is okay (I like the JewelStock version I have on tape much better, though)... Fat Boy is good. A lot of the rest of the CD really hasn't grabbed me one way or another, though. I'm trying really hard to warm to it, but I just don't think it's going to happen. I think this CD is going to end up in the "play it once every couple months" pile, which is sort of disappointing, because I've been hoping & expecting that it would totally rock my world. :) Oh well... anybody got any listening hints for enhancing enjoyment? :) Kevin - ---------- Kevin Pease kbpease@boston.crosswinds.net ICQ UIN: 3106063 AOL IM: kbpease http://www.crosswinds.net/boston/~kbpease/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 23:32:56 -0800 From: winters Subject: ET: a few rambling poems ALL I CAN DO.... all you can do is wait. the silence between us is managing to get louder and the distance keeps growing. all you can do is wait. you've told me that so many times now, i feel my world ending. i can't hold on much longer always pretending. that it's easy, it's easy to be me. all you can do is hang on, she said when my tears ran down she kept telling me to hang on he will show his face back around. all you can do is hang on, but there is nothing secure to grab onto. and they keep telling me to hang on to what? the dream? the idea? the illusions? and now all you can do is let go, all you can do is let go. MAYBE maybe i was wrong. maybe it is all my fault, and i should have never felt anything to begin with. maybe i made the first mistake by giving you my number, and maybe i made the second mistake by saying hello. but it all ends there. i can't believe anymore that i forced your tongue in my mouth, i can't believe anymore that what i heard was an illusion. maybe i should have stayed in bed that night or went out with someone else, but i didn't. and maybe i made eye contact first so some how all the blame can be thrown on me but maybe you asked for it, and just perhaps you wanted it and there is a slight chance you miss it. SILENCE you ordered orange juice while i had my coffee (3 creams and 2 sugars). i only saw you one time before and that was the night you waited on my table. you looked different without that hat on and with your hair down. your eyes were tierd from a day at work, and i was nervous with sugar packets all over the table. i was shaking, i don't know if you noticed. i think you might have been a little afraid too, it's funny how emotions change. we drove to a park nearby, the sky was stormy, a hurricane was coming. the whole town was running from the risk of natural death, but you and i thought it was a joke. i sat you down on my favorite rock which hit the river. we talked of art, our past and how quickly time passes. i don't know the exact moment, where you and i became we. i like to think it was from the comfort of silence, the nervous flutter of first touching your lips, and the goodbye which never ended. so now time has past and written a small passage of history. i'm still drinking my coffee with 3 creams and 2 sugars, and you still prefer OJ. the silence isn't comfort anymore, with new insecurities brought on. distance has seperated us, and we haven't been to the rock sense. yet still i believe, there is that same piece of you and me, that was there before. the feeling of hope, and the never ending night. my bones are weak from never feeling your touch, and you are frustrated from my confusion. but still there is that moment which lives in the both of us, when my lips first touched yours, and when silence was felt like a blanket around our bodies. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 21:48:25 -0500 From: mandabear4@juno.com (Mandabear four) Subject: ET: AN ANGEL WROTE.... An angel wrote: Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. To handle yourself, use your head; To handle others, use your heart. Anger is only one letter short of danger. If someone betrays you once, it's his fault; if he betrays you twice, it's your fault. Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people. God gives every bird its food, But He does not throw it into its nest. He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses more; He who loses faith, loses all. Beautiful young people are acts of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art. Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. The tongue weighs practically nothing, But so few people can hold it. Friends, you and me.... you brought another friend... and then there were 3... we started our group... Our circle of friends... and like that circle... there is no beginning or end.. . * . (\ *** /) * . * * . * ( \ (_)/ ) * Guardian Angel * . . (_ / || \ _) . * . . * . /____\ * . . * Here is an angel sent to watch over you... ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 17:58:40 -0800 (PST) From: Jason Vierling Subject: ET: Re: Help Angels Hello Angels, In response to Shaun's letter, I just wanted to post a few little things that can be done to help in spite of a limited budget. First off, don't feel bad for sustaining yourself and watching out for your own well-being. I say this because if you are not sound and able to grow , you will not be a in a position to help others when you are able. Secondly, there are many types of help and it is often not the most helpful type of aid to directly give money. This is a good way to expose yourself to fraud and perhaps even enable addictions and the like. Ok enough rambling ..get with the suggestions ;) Ask people,friends,etc for old coats/blankets/camping equipment to distribute....things that might otherwise end up at yard sales or even being thrown away because they are things no one would wear/use except for those that have nothing.. warm childrens clothing is esp a good grab here...this is something that has an immediate effect and benefit to those you give to (or even drop said items off at a local homeless shelter if you want to collect and not distribute)* I like to hit up yard sales for these items..even if I can't afford to buy them sometimes you will find that people will give these items away quite freely for this purpose..or I just suggest they donate them if that end up not selling them) other items that might be easier to collect from those around you are toiletry items...Toothpaste,combs,first aid items,disposable razors,bars of soap..these go a long way toward not only improving appearance but self respect and restoring some dignity as well...these items can be bundled together little by little and given like a travel pak...(I know what you are thinking give a starving guy a shave..but it really does help the spirit if nothing else)* A good place to collect these items from are hotels,motels,etc. (I usually go right to the maids or head of housekeeping on this oneas the front desk usually deals you off to a corporate #) find a local homeless shelter or food bank and volunteer...get boxes for them from the grocery store to parcel out food with or whatever you can manage (not every volunteer job takes hours of your week).. or even learn their available services (and locations)and when stopped by someone pandering leave them with this knowledge even if you can't spare your change These are just a few random thoughts on the matter and I am anxious to see what my fellow Angels might have to add towards this topic..... Take Care, Jason V Arunsun on IRC & ICQ Arnsun on AOL IM _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of eda-thoughts-digest V1 #291 **********************************