...how does your garden grow?

I dance and I dance, but I don't know the words.

Spinning in circles for dizziness sake, then falling to the ground, counting the stars that only I can see.

Take in a show, then spit out the ticker tape, falsely proclaiming good will to all.

I'd laugh, but it wasn't funny.

A good joke, except for the timing, and the delivery, and the fact that it wasn't a joke at all.

The joker and his new bride gleefully pounce on the remains. Devouring the scraps, then coughing them back up into something vaguely resembling happiness.

Enjoy the time you have. One never knows when next she feeds.

The flawless, take cover. Chance knows no favorites.

A seed is only as good as the soil in whick it's sown.
Take heed when gardening. You could lose a finger...or your heart.

Your word is EPICNESS...

Could you use it in a sentence please?

It is astounding, the epicness of my sadness....

I didn't fall off the face of the earth...I just moved to Bellevue

Sorry everyone....I know it's been a while. The up side is that I have now moved into my own place (and by own place, I mean a place that I share with two roomates.) The down side is that I no longer have convienent nor consistent internet access.
That said, I would like to put out an open invitation to anyone who would like to come over and visit me. I currently kind of have no life due to the fact that my dog is not used to being left in a single room for any length of time, so I can only leave her as long as is absolutely necessary (like to go to work). So I'm pretty much at home most of the time, and would really like some company more often than not. Just call me, for as I said, I don't have regular access to email or my blog.

Good-bye for now.

Frist, Rove, Delay: Who's Looking The Other Way

"Tom DeLay and Bill Frist, the two political operatives in Congress with arguably the deepest support among Christian churches, both face serious allegations of financial trickery. Karl Rove, the Bush administration power broker who speaks almost daily with Christian leaders to coordinate political action, is under investigation for divulging classified information, then covering up his misdeed.
The details of each case can be pursued in most major media outlets. In brief, DeLay was indicted by a Texas grand jury of illegally funneling corporate campaign contributions into Texas legislative races. DeLay, who has stepped down at least temporarily from his position as majority leader of the House of Representatives, is also under federal investigation for his questionable relationship with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, on the other hand, has fallen under serious investigation by federal prosecutors and the Securities and Exchange Commission for possible insider trading (what got Martha Stewart in trouble), not to mention legislative conflict of interest.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove personally assured President Bush in the fall of 2003 that he had not disclosed to anyone in the press that Valerie Plame, the wife of an administration critic, was a covert CIA employee, according to Associated Press reports. It now appears possible Rove was the source of the leak that destroyed Plame's career and potentially put her life at risk.
I find it more than a bit disturbing that Christians who back Rove, DeLay, and Frist in their political efforts express so little concern about the possibility of corruption at the highest ranks of government. Worse still, many Christians express blind allegiance to these men. Is this what we have come to, when we sell our birthright for a pot of political porridge?
The Jerusalem Post reports DeLay appeared publicly for the first time after his indictment at a Sept. 28 event hosted by "Stand For Israel," an organization of evangelical Christians and Jews who support a Zionist future for Israel. The Post reports that DeLay received a standing ovation, saying, "It's really good to be here among so many old friends and brothers and sisters in the cause for justice and human freedom." Some participants called out, "We love you, Tom," according to the Post.
I grant that the aforementioned misdeeds are only allegations, so a measured response would be appropriate. DeLay, Frist, and Rove should receive due process. I do recall, however, that many Christian leaders and the religious media did not manifest any such restraint during the moral ineptitude of the Clinton era. At the time, we at Sojourners joined others in the religious world to express our concern - for example, go back to a piece written by Jim Wallis in 1998 titled, "Seeking Moral Consistency." At the time, Jim chided liberal religious leaders: "Why have churches and church leaders been so quiet in this crisis of morality? ...Could it be that this too falls out along political lines? Are those church leaders most sympathetic to Clinton's agenda unlikely to offer much comment on the many ethical issues involved here? Are only those opposed to the president's political agenda ready to speak challenging words to the White House? What are our primary colors?"
It would be comforting to observe that same desire for moral consistency in our body politic at the moment. To be frank, I do not expect Focus on the Family, The 700 Club, or any other influential media network of religious conservatives to raise a red flag about political corruption in the Republican Party any time soon. The specter of political power seems too enticing, too close within reach, to be held back by traditional values such as honesty and integrity. Oh, woe to us, that we shall we gain the whole world, yet lose our own soul."

by David Batstone, Sojourner Magazine