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Re: Oh That Tara Joyce, She’s Such a Phony Baloney

Jaxxy — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:04:35 -0000

"A writer is someone whose good review is awaited most anxiously, and is accepted most reverently."...?

Arg!

=D.

Re: Oh That Tara Joyce, She’s Such a Phony Baloney

Jaxxy — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:48:11 -0000

I wonder if there's a better way to phrase that 'A Writer Is...' quote? Sometimes the wording trips me up -- perhaps because its creator's first language was not English. My humble Self shall try, anyway.

"The writer in the room is the one who is most critical about others' writings." No, that sounds mean!... and it doesn't always follow. Humm...

"You can tell which one is the writer -- she's the one you've got stuck in the back of your mind. She's the one you're really trying to please, impress, or outdo with your own writing."
Long... and too informal...

"A writer is easily distinguished; she is the one whose opinion really matters to other writers."
Maybe close, but has a negative tone to it...

"A writer is a person whose good reviews we await the most anxiously, and accept with the most awe."
Okay, enough, I'll have to live with that one!

See? You're a writer, Tara. See how I wanted to get it just right for you!

<3,
Jaxxy. =)

Re: Oh That Tara Joyce, She’s Such a Phony Baloney

Jaxxy — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:45:45 -0000

Amen, sista! TESTIFAH, haha. Yup-yup, the "different" people have always been (and duly felt) ostracized. For this and a million other reasons, I, too, am "all tingly" -- waiting for the world to change, with bated breath. Is there a place for us in the newer world?

But... maybe it's "bad" to wait for world acceptance. Self-limiting, too... good point! I guess it's another one of those newfangled balance problems. Maybe we can't have our cake -- be quite unique, unexpected -- and eat it too -- be not-"alone" because of it. If we become "normal" then we won't be "special" anymore (like everybody else! LOL).

Enough with the philosophizing, Me! All I really meant to share is a quote a writer-but-is-she-really? friend of mine shared with me some time ago. I just looked it up, and it seems Thomas Mann said it:
"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

It works!

<3,
Jaxxy. =)

Re: Get Real

Jaxxy — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:50:36 -0000

Yeah. Sure are some heavy attitudes out there, today. I guess people think, these days, to be "cool", you have to be "smart"... and to be "smart", you have to be "realistic"... and, as you said, realism seems like negativism. Or negate-ism; dis-believing, non-examining what we are handed, and pooh-poohing it all out of hand.

In the fun little world between my ears, I always screech that this all has to do with the Western world's obsession with science. Apparently, science is the only thing that IS "real"; apparently, humans, and our rinky-dink lil gadgets, know everything there is to know about this whole wide universe! Pride, much?

Because humans already know everything, and everything has to do with natural physics, a "cool", "smart", "good person" -- you know, a remotely *acceptable* person -- is automatically a critic of anything that does not belong to its schools of thought. Anyone who *knows* something different, for his or her own self, is wrong... and worse, *unrealistic*. The absolutely funniest thing about all of it, to me, is that these are almost entirely the same exact people who criticize religious people... for being "so out of touch -- way too dogmatic" -- !! LOL.

I will continue to happily shape my own reality with you... those who won't come with us can content themselves with traffic, smog, and the company of their own persnickety kind, as inevitable and unchangeable "reality". They can have my share, even.

<3.

Re: Good News, We’re No Longer Solving Today’s Problems With the Same Thinking That Created Them

Jaxxy — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:03:04 -0000

(If it is acceptable to any given reader of this article,) Ask any astrologer; we, too, know it is time for an economical transformation on all fronts. As anyone can see, it has already begun -- with or without our blessing. Adaptability it must be, then.

In an astrologer's terms, Pluto -- who takes a generation to move from one sign into the next -- has entered the sign of Capricorn. This occurred just within the last year.

Pluto is the great transformer -- the Phoenix -- life, death, rebirth, all in one. To our incarnate eyes, he seems quite as dark as the god he is named for. Thing is, he never "kills" without the specific purpose of allowing for a grand, and much-needed, rebirth -- an evolution. He -- "death", or more clearly, change -- represents, of course, a healthy and necessary stage of the life cycle. Still, it's just as you say; every one of us, on some level, is afraid of the unknown which lies ahead.

Capricorn, I should add, is the sign most concerned with this type of financial crisis: Jobs, careers, the work-force. Simply put, the economy. Capricorn's ruler, to boot, is Saturn, our "task-master". Even in a personal horoscope, Saturn returns to every person, every thirty years -- he trains us into truer and truer levels of maturity. So hold on tight, consumerist friends; here we go!

Astrologers have been watching for Pluto's ingress into Capricorn for many years... but it doesn't take a skyward glance to see what we've done. With the throw-away lifestyle we've courted for fifty-plus years? Not to be too technical about it: DUH! Who needs to be "different" to see?

But I, who am also heckled as "too different" -- presumably because I am inconsiderate enough to stargaze -- know it is a time to personally change, or to be taken out of this changing world's equation. It's time... on many, many levels.

I hope we will hold hands as we cross the street. Good Luck.

(Edit: Isn't it funny? My poor vision bungled it; I didn't even realize this article was ten months old. That's when it began -- good going, guys.)

Re: Innerpreneur Spotlight: Adam King

Jaxxy — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:21:34 -0000

LOL! I meant Backtype! See?!

<3!

Re: Innerpreneur Spotlight: Adam King

Jaxxy — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:21:03 -0000

Whale! I love it! Love it, love it, love it.

I'm *trying* to figure out this LinkBack thing, so I can show you instead of tell you... good grief! But, for now, here's a thingy.

http://www.facebook.com/Jak...
I linked up to your page, Tara -- and your write-up, here, Adam -- cos I lurv them sew.

YAY!

Love,
Jaxxy. =)