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2007-10-04T18:43:49Z

homage to Wyeth Originally uploaded by silverdrake I saw this incredible picture by silverdrake posted on Flickr today, and I realized it was the one that I wanted to come back to my blog with. This "homage to Wyeth" feels like a homecomi...

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Reinvention: Turning Points, Callings, Fear and Faith

2007-07-18T19:57:56Z

I am writing because I have to. I need to. It's how I sometimes process things that feel too big: talking out loud, writing in a diary, here in a blog where the people you value might have some nugget of wisdom to clear the smoke. Right now I...

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Word Games: Tolerance or Acceptance?

2007-07-17T05:47:09Z

I'll be the first person to admit that I use my blog for purely selfish, cathartic reasons. Sometimes I use it to hold myself accountable (if I say it outloud, I'll do it). Sometimes I use it to celebrate something wonderful in my life, first a...

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Slavery -- eye of the beholder?

2007-07-09T15:38:06Z

In the past few months two women that I truly admire have left me scratching my head on my very entrenched position on virtual slavery in Second Life and other immersive online communities. It's role play. I get it. What I've never quite come ...

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Passion or Appetite?

2007-06-26T00:55:38Z

Whenever I'm about to reinvent myself in a significant way, I find myself reading a lot of Emerson. Today I came across something he'd written that I'd not heard before, but I found it both provocative and essential: “I find that the Ameri...

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Happy Birthday, Pierre ...

2007-06-21T06:27:01Z

Today is my friend Pierre's birthday, and it's got me thinking about the value of a life. While there are some people who would measure it with extrinsic successes -- money, fame, toys -- P's a guy who kinda challenges you turn that on it's hea...

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Who the hell do you think you are?

2007-06-10T03:23:41Z

Pretty powerful question when asked in the context of exploration, not abuse. Consider yourself invited to dig into your own scarred psyche and hermetically sealed beautiful soul and come up with some creative answers through photo stories: http:...

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Social Networking and the Perfect Storm

2007-06-08T20:10:16Z

It's been a long time since I've posted here. I find that I often explore a new tool, crawl inside of it and make it home for awhile, then move on. There's a lack of friction with so many of the social networking tools. I don't want to date, to...

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One Hour

2007-05-05T06:54:41Z

Yup. Totally self-indulgent, just because I can. A picture I took of Baron Grayson when we were out working on our new Templum ex Obscurum sim. He set the chapel back out there in the sunset along the sea, and has done some gorgeous landsc...

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A Love Letter to Chicago

2007-04-26T03:54:10Z

On Easter weekend I took a whirlwind trip to Chicago. Only staying one night, I didn't have a lot of time to venture out into the parts of the city with the grandest gothic architecture and some of my favourite haunts, but I did manage to take al...

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