From: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org (eda-thoughts-digest) To: eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Subject: eda-thoughts-digest V2 #301 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 Wednesday, October 20 1999 Volume 02 : Number 301 * 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 V2 #xxx or the like gives readers no clue * as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- ET: Poem (The Target) [Christopher Overholser ] ET: listening to mozart and c-span2 ["Robert A. Peate" Subject: ET: Poem (The Target) Another poem that is about a year old. All comments are welcome! The Target I am all too serious the Jokes and Jests of other strike me like rocks and bullets and I learned to absorb them. This gave me an all too cold and insensitive outlook to others; from one all too naive and sensitive to withstand others without my shell or callous to the world. It is a shame, but I am too determined or stubborn to resist this. From the golden one, I have learned to be a better person, unconsciously. I thank her with all my heart and soul. She has made me who I am. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 22:04:56 -0400 From: "Robert A. Peate" Subject: ET: listening to mozart and c-span2 i just feel like writing in public for a change. it's odd, because i keep a journal, but sometimes one just feels a need for an audience--celebrities and performers obviously meet this need, and, although it may sometimes be difficult in some cases, they usually find privacy as well, so to some extent they have found balance, whereas the rest of us, although we all have a need for reinforcement, are, for the most part, either trapped in little boxes, suffering in silence, or content, but still unknown. i believe we all have a need for reinforcement and acknowledgement from our peers, whoever they may be. in this case, i have been made to feel comfortable enough to consider eda thoughts a forum in which i can write this message, for which i thank you all--both those who contribute, promoting a feeling of respect and fellowship, and those who abstain, who, by merely abstaining from comment, express their approval of those who do, promoting a feeling of tolerance and forbearance from unfair attacks. i feel very safe and secure on this list, this little haven of kindness and support in an otherwise oftentimes-cruel internet. i'm listening to mozart's symphony no. 41, in c major, k. 551, nicknamed "jupiter" after his death, because it was great and full--and of course i know jewel has a song of the same name, coincidentally. i'm also listening to c-span2, which is replaying a speech the president gave today on youth violence. i find him inspiring and good, admirable and worthy of my trust in him. lastly, i'm advising a friend via icq notes as i wrote this on his love-life, because he isn't sure whether or not to pursue a brand new love in his life. he has been very sad and heartbroken over another love for a long time, and he doesn't know whether or not to risk his heart again--but i am saying of course he should! what else could possibly be more important, better for us all, than love? life is not worth living unless it is lived with hope and love--life is risk, but not to risk would mean to die, to stand still, to stagnate, i am advising my friend, and i hope you all approve. if you don't, tell, me, and i'll consider your views carefully before i advise him again. i am fair, and i will always listen to others' opinions, even when i feel something strongly. i have been feeling a little lonely tonight, although i have many friends, and many of them good ones, because my girlfriend is busy and i cannot interact with her at this moment. i did interact with her a lot today so far, and i will interact with her again in a little while, but i feel a little lonely whenever i cannot interact with her, just because she and i are drawn to one another very powerfully, and we can't get enough of each other. so, i'm writing to you dear friends because i have excess energy and thought to burn, and i don't have anything in particular to say. i'll try not to wear out my welcome, but i do enjoy talking, obviously. the president's speech is over, and my friend has decided to pursue his new love, it seems. i am very happy for this, because his young lady friend seems to love him very much to me, even though i am only an observer of the situation. hope, and love, spring eternal. i recommend classical music to anyone seeking some elegant beauty. your faithful correspondent on long island, and maybe i'll play *spirit* next for the hell of it :), robert a. peate p. s. thank you for enduring my poems every once in a while, too. :) ***** disappointment haunted all my dreams--then i saw her face! ~n. diamond ------------------------------ End of eda-thoughts-digest V2 #301 **********************************