From: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org (eda-thoughts-digest) To: eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Subject: eda-thoughts-digest V2 #375 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 Saturday, January 1 2000 Volume 02 : Number 375 * 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: ----------------- Re: ET: 1999 [kara garbe ] ET: ooh post! [DPS8315@aol.com] ET: Happy new year! ["Dr. RomeAntic" ] ET: Happy New Year -- don't forget to duck & cover. :) ["Kevin B. Pease"] ET: Baby New Year - from Rebecca [JewelAng@aol.com (Rebecca)] ET: the children are beautiful; thanks sam [genben@usa.net] ET: A Guarded Sou (poem) [ShadieBlu@aol.com] ET: Words that expose [Annie ] ET: Song lyrics I wrote [JewelAng@aol.com] ET: *Happy New Years!!!* [Naomi Vaughn ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 01:38:15 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) From: kara garbe Subject: Re: ET: 1999 << I just don't understand how everyone is getting all this influence to write for the new millennium? Can anyone help me? >> i think that the influence of the millennium is just like the influence of any new year, but magnified. usually i think a new year is like a slap in the face, reminding you of the passage of time. new year's eve is usually a big night for getting together with friends, so it's a night most people remember from year to year. you sit and say "oh hey, i spent last new year's eve in massachusetts skiing" or whatever, and then it makes you think about how a whole year has gone by, and that begs all sorts of metaphysical questions that get you started thinking about what you're doing with your life. but the millennium is an even bigger deal ( this is what i say to people who start with the "no, it's not really the millennium, that isn't until 2001" ) because the real importance of changing over to the year 2000 is the psychological impact of writing down a new number as the year. nearly every day you're going to be reminded of the passage of time in a very real way, until you get used to it being 2000--and it usually takes me 6 months to remember it's a new year. so that can be a really paralyzing and scary thing, to realize that time is passing. of course time is passing every day, but why not take 1 day out of every 365 to really think about it? everyone, have a great new year and may you make your lives what you want them to be. ~kara ............................................................................ ........ In all ease and comfort, without rushing You from place to place and without trying to be exhaustive, I will show You this and this, tell You what it means to me, and then put it all back among my other things. --Rilke ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 09:34:59 EST From: DPS8315@aol.com Subject: ET: ooh post! Well, maybe not. Completed comments for last three digests (2 days) If you posted, and want comments, you can check them here as always: http://www.geocities.com/Pipeline/Curb/9104/start.htm >not patronizing or condescending? where on earth did you get THAT idea? bah all you women are unfair. >all the crazy fun you can do is great as long as you don't end up dying. eat >drink and be merry for tomorrow we will die. um, wait, we WON'T die, right? no. >not tomorrow, anyway. not most of us, at least :) and no that is not from star >trek originally! know your shakespeare, ye fools! uhm, yeah :-) I'll remember that tonight...as long as you dont die, its all good >> how did this get so long? and I haven't even put poetry into it! ..well, >> sam always has those 10K posts, why cant I? >yours was pretty long ya know yes sam, I know, thanx :) >From: shivergirl >Subject: ET: ~10ks for james/more fodder for thievery~ ;) lol I looked at that and went, "what's a 10K?" lol those are the best! well I didnt appreciate how critical the poems were lol, but I like long posts... JewelAng: >I just don't understand how everyone is getting all this influence to write for the >new millennium? Can anyone help me? I saw this and I was startled.. poet's first rule: [mine anyway] never force inspiration I break that one a lot :) Personally, my new year's plans for this year were set like 2 years ago.. I thought, I'll go out to this one field a cpl miles away from my house, light a big fire, and sit there while the century passes away.. and then i met this girl, blah blah :) I'm not all that excited about the new year and all, so i'm not at all inspired by that.. *but* if you're looking for inspiration, watch a sunrise..take a bath... do something sensual and remember how it feels to be young! So Anyway.. when y'all are partyin tonight, indulge in everything that is you! :-) Lovely, James ohh yeah, poem.. i'm supposedly entering this in a competition..and this is in its roughest form, but i would appreciate any and all comments y'all have to offer! please! [title?] Buried Beneath miles and miles of torn pages and weathered covers, lie the solemn stories of lover's quarrels. I have watched and seen friends of mine travel wearily along forgotten roads into the sunsets where their hearts shall forever lie Atop lofty summits, on mountains seldom ascended men meet their souls. the poetry composed in these lonely hours knows little competition, and as I scroll the lines of these broken hearts, the strength of my soul fades and my legs tremble I feel their pain! I, too, know the suffering that lies in defeat! My heart, rampaged and trodden upon, has felt firsthand the piercing of love lost My friends, my brothers, tell the tales of their ne'er forgotten loves [each dearest to his own] I have peered into many an eye, caught the glace of a weary traveler wandering out in public.radio.land i have soothed his soul with acceptance and a copy of the 88th street blues As each man travles into the fading sunsets that he can only wish to catch, my heart hangs and my mouth whispers a prayer, that somewhere out there, on each his own darkened path, high atop shattered staircases and broken dreams, he may cut his own interstate to freedom, upon which he shall discover love again, Much as I have, in another lover's eyes. This creed comes from my heart with [un]hidden meanings i have wandered across unforgiving seas to mountains untamed, and found, atop lonesome hills, the sacred place where the path finally ends, and the journey home begins. My love, this life for you. No more do I feel the weight of tears or sorrow, I take you upon my soul and go soaring above this tyranny of pain, your hand in mine, I seek enchanted skies and all the seduction darkness can offer! let me go wandering through your eyes set me free in your dreams, send me spiraling through every embodiment of you! tonight, when i go to lay my lips upon your heart, I shall reach all of me for your soul, such that we may visit all the places where lovers grow intertwined, where we shall love in full dress, dancing in the scenes of stars, and we shall see shades of tomorrow we never imagined, in the glory of life, forgetting the pains of yes.ter.day. Like I said--comments, PLEASE! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 17:14:48 +0100 From: "Dr. RomeAntic" Subject: ET: Happy new year! Just under 7 hours to go... I'm on way to meet my g/f... so I don't know if I'll have another chance closer to the new millenium to send a message... so I'm doing it now! I wish you a lucky, happy, productive and successful new year and millennium... and most of all may you be surrounded with all sorts of love and make other people your around feel the same way! Love ya all! - -- Have fun and stay beautiful Dr. RomeAntic, an angel with the worst stroke of luck and a flash of silver lining "Slow motion see me let go...." 3Eb Catch Dr. RomeAntic's outdated cyber image @ http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Metro/2009 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 11:59:40 -0500 From: "Kevin B. Pease" Subject: ET: Happy New Year -- don't forget to duck & cover. :) Howdy folks, Well, it's almost that time... 12 hours, 9 minutes until New Year's here on the east coast. I'm going to be heading off to save the world (well... okay... really, I'm probably going to play computer games, send email, call friends, and hope like hell that nobody calls me with a computer problem... :) in a few hours, so I'm saying Happy New Year now, before I go put all the stuff together that I need to take into work with me. For some of you, it already is the new year, I guess... hope you're still standing. ;) According to CNN & MSNBC, Australia & New Zealand have reported almost no problems whatsoever, so that's a good sign, I guess. :) Anyway have a fun, and non-stressful, evening, and a happy new year. See you all in 2000. Kevin - ---------- Kevin Pease kbpease@concentric.net ICQ UIN: 3106063 AOL IM: kbpease "May you dream you are dreaming in a warm soft bed / And may the voices inside you that fill you with dread / Make the sound of thousands of angels instead / tonight where you might be laying your head..." -----{Patty Griffin, "Nobody's Crying"}----- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 09:01:14 -0800 (PST) From: JewelAng@aol.com (Rebecca) Subject: ET: Baby New Year - from Rebecca You have just received an animated greeting card from Rebecca You'll see the personal greeting by using the following Web location. http://www1.bluemountain.com/cards/box5394y/rxr8djdzrcjaaj.htm (Your greeting card will be available for the next 90 days) There is no charge for this service! :) HAVE a good day and have fun! ____________________________________________________________ Accessing your card indicates your agreement with our Website Rules posted at the bottom of the following Web location: (You're welcome to send a card at no charge to someone at this location) http://www.bluemountain.com/ ------------------------------ Date: 31 Dec 99 12:11:04 EST From: genben@usa.net Subject: ET: the children are beautiful; thanks sam how can you say that they want to hate? that they want to kill? that they want not to love all? how can you say that they are not joyous? that they shouldn't laugh? that they cannot play? how can you say that they don't feel pain? that they don't know sorrow? that they can't understand? i tell you they feel i tell you they love i tell you they want to be happy and keep from hurting you the children are beautiful and they want you to be their guide what will you say? - -ba 12/31/99 ps-hi again; i never really left, i just vanished for a while ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 13:06:20 EST From: ShadieBlu@aol.com Subject: ET: A Guarded Sou (poem) You cannot force a guarded soul Time holds it's secrets and beauty within You may gently nip at the edges Feeling your way around But never discovering what lies beyond Until time ceases to exist A guarded soul will speak only silence And you in return will answer with a song of devotion Hoping that one day the guard may fall Revealing the treasure within. ** Any comments are welcome. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 15:00:08 -0500 From: Annie Subject: ET: Words that expose The Words that Expose There is something preternatural about it The way cold's shadow hunts me down There is something so silent and screaming The water is a cave and I want to drown Echo Spurn The night has come Feel it Burn I've been outdone Stone tongues so full of nothing to say But everything to scream Whispers do not exist in my ears Every word is a demand Heavy A boulder My hands shut my ears But I can still hear The tone outdoes me Penetrating the cracks between my rough fingers Worthy? they question I shake my head no Kind? stop it I shake my head no Bitch! They accuse And I shake my head yes The darts have hit the mark The place where I can bleed and I weep as though they've uncovered a nasty little bear Hiding in my cave Some wretched secret that has outwitted words for time untold There is something so tragic about it I am unwrapped Something so icy about it The shaking violent grasp and I weep as though I am words exposed - -Annie ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 16:24:59 EST From: JewelAng@aol.com Subject: ET: Song lyrics I wrote I wrote the lyrics awhile ago, I just haven't gotten around to writing the music. They say the best songs are either written in 15 mins or in six months. This song is going for the six month period. Tell me what you think of the lyrics. Comments and flames wanted! Verse 1: Goodbye baby, So I guess I won't be seeing you around Thank you for the comfort But I wonder if I ever loved you And I wonder if you feel the same I say it's best for us to part But why now are the tears coming? Ohh I'm giving up on our love Ohh I don't have the strenght to keep our love in shape I guess we were just never good enouge together Chours: I wonder if I've ever been good enouge I wonder if my love was good enouge for you I wonder if your even good enouge for me Ohh was our love ever good enouge Verse 2: It just so happens I've found someone stronger It just so happens I don't need you anymore Now your making it like your sying goodbye (you were always like that) But just as well I"m glad to be ridden of your rotten love You say it's best for us to part but why now are the tears coming from your eyes So now I'm giving up And your giving up Chours: I wonder if I've ever been good enouge I wonder if my love was good enouge for you I wonder if your even good enouge for me Ohh was our love ever good enouge Verse 3: Then I wake up and relize it was just a dream I could never say goodbye to you Even though you drain me when we're apart I feel better when we're together I wish I could say goodbye to you baby But my heart doesn't like the change Even though it will take your abuse Chours 2: I wonder if I'll be good enouge I wonder if my love will be good enouge for you I wonder if you'll even ever be good enouge for me I wonder if our love will ever be good enouge So goodbye baby I guess I'll be seeing you around (I'm not sure what to call it either Good Enouge or Goodbye baby) Rebecca ------------------------------ Date: 31 Dec 99 20:24:32 CST From: Naomi Vaughn Subject: ET: *Happy New Years!!!* I just wanted to wish you all a wonderful New Year!!! Hope it's a happy and memorable one!! :)))) Love, Naomi "and i'll pretend that this is real / cuz this is what i like best" ~Ani DiFranco, "Gravel" ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. ------------------------------ End of eda-thoughts-digest V2 #375 **********************************