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I just spent the last few days with so many great people. I'm really happy. Thanks to everyone I met and to SG and @sean for bringing me there. Tomorrow is my birthday. My very grand birthday at that. Haha, how did this ever happen?! Picture from my roomie @elliott behind the scenes while the wonderful @lavezzaro shot my first set in about 2 years
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saintalf:
Happy belated Birthday. Hope you had a wonderful day celebrating
paradigma:
oooohhhohoho congrats!!!!! happy birth!!!!! I love you @annalee don't ever change ^^

Computers

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I've realised the time has come that I must give in and get a computer again. I've rediscovered love of my camera and I want to work on my pictures and make a website for my paintings. I haven't had my own computer for the last 4 or 5 years, had a wee iPod thing for a while but dropped it in the bath a...
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hellfart:
Spring is indeed bringing radiance! Everything in our garden is popping up and getting green, especially since it's such a 'warm' winter and spring over here. The virginia creeper, foxglove, wild flowers to help zzzzhe little bees... Lovely to strawl around there on a chill morning, witnessing the growth of everything... But anyway, on the matter of computers. I would go for a second hand Mac (or new one, if you want to spend that amount of money). My gf once bought a second hand eMac, back in the days: not a problem. I used windows-based desktops but switched to a Macbook pro: no problems anymore. My gf just purchased a Lenovo laptop: problems. Might depend on what you want to do with it... but still: you might overthink it. I suppose with the nowadays online storage possibilities, you can always go 'in the cloud'. Or get an external HD for a few bucks. Well, looking forward to seeing your art, Annalee... you've got a good eye for shooting photos, and i'm quite curious what your paintings are like. All the best!
nikonphoto80:
having a computer is very important now a days, for us artists very important to work on our art and get it out there.  well i will tell you, i have a Mac book pro and i love it, i have had it for well over 4 years, pretty close to 5 years and it has been amazing, i think they are so much better for working on photography, i have done it on a lot of computers, but on a mac it is easier, and they are so easy to upgrade, i have put both more memory and a bigger hard drive in last year.  

Chasing thoughts

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Milarepa: “When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick: every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower. One only throws a stick at a lion once.”

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wnbmq2hagqa3:
@annalee, nice to see you on the front page... :)
drocculari:
@wnbmq2hagqa3 Thanks for the replies.

Sunday

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My room is getting filled with plants. They are all stretching towards the window, this being Scotland and us not facing South, the sunshine is short. One of the succulents got a little tear when I moved it a few weeks ago and I thought the pale bluish-green leaf/petal/limb/part was going to fall off but instead, tiny pink roots have started to grow out of...
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mokadude:
I've been pondering a bit of that lately with the passing of Gabriel Garcia Marquez... thinking about memory and connections.  But I've got to admit, I get to the place that things can assume a symbolism of their own... almost as though they might deserve as much respect as any of us, for lives done well.  There is dignity in the simple fact of durability and surviving for awhile at least the passing of time.
mokadude:
My mother, like yours intends, has been barreling ahead for years making sure she leaves no clutter behind!

Resistance is probably futile?

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I'm boycotting those automatic checkouts they've started to put in all the supermarkets. Probably if I had been around at the time when big shops moved in I would have boycotted them too but as we are, they are such a normal thing now in a city and soon those machines will be. Everything by degrees, everything relative. When I go to pay the real...
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s_eldorado:
I loved reading this.  A couple years ago I walked into a local Safeway, saw that they were installing the machines and demanded to see the manager.  I told him that I wouldn't be shopping there again as long as they were there.  I broke my promise for an "emergency" one day last year and noticed that everyone was still lining up at the over-worked cashiers and no one was using the automated ones.  I hate them.  There's a time and place for automation but there's also a time and place for human interaction - when I go to buy groceries, I chat with the owner of the little shop nearby and he's my friend.  It's a community thing.  To be honest, I feel that's what's now missing from SG with the new design (actually, ever since member review).  Community.  It's gone, fragmented, buried in an avalanche of shallow gestures for attention.  I miss the days when this place and the sets abounded with art, provocative discussion and beautiful writing.  I miss you, too.
annalee:
@s_eldorado hey you! It's nice to hear from you, are you still the same email address . I sent you an email a couple of months ago but I don't know if you got it. I hope you're well. Let's be less automated, yes that sounds like a plan x

Monday

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Aw, @waikiki just sent me these pictures of my little "sister" @lass and I from when we were all in Norfolk shooting the last DVD with @sean and @missy and all the gang. Seems so long ago and make me miss all those amazing women. I think that was the last time I shot anything actually. I seem to have gone into hiding in that
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codemonkeym:
A slice of ginger paradise!
acidalia:
We need to have an SG ginger convention! ♡

Monday

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On longer evenings,
Light, chill and yellow,
Bathes the serene
Foreheads of houses.
A thrush sings,
Laurel-surrounded
In the deep bare garden,
Its fresh-peeled voice
Astonishing the brickwork.
It will be spring soon,
It will be spring soon —
And I, whose childhood
Is a forgotten boredom,
Feel like a child
Who comes on a scene
Of adult reconciling,
And can understand nothing
But the...
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annalee:
@outlier What lovely observations, as ever! You should get at shirt that says "excessively parenthesised", of at least a badge! To notice and feel everything being connected to everything else is highly useful in my opinion. I hope you're well too. I have been marvelling lately at how hard it is to play Bach's Prelude I, well...
nikonphoto80:
very beautiful, i will keep that in my head when spring does come.  

All the world is a fence and we are merely oysters

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If I was lucky enough to own a fence, I would put a sign on it saying "Dear being, please feel free to tie your bike here if that would be convenient for you. It's of no consequence to me or the fence if a bicycle is attached to it for a few hours or days or weeks and heaven knows, people need places to...
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nikonphoto80:
i hope some day you do have a fence and are abele to do that :)  
suispud1:
The world cries for more people like you. 

Robert Burns and William Shakespeare

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Open the Door To Me, Oh

Oh, open the door, some pity to shew,

If love it may na be, Oh;

Tho' thou hast been false, I'll ever prove true,

Oh, open the door to me, oh.

Cauld is the blast upon my pale cheek,

But caulder thy love for me, oh:

The frost that freezes the life at my heart,

Is nought to my...
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outlier:
A bit of Shakespearean humor for your amusement:
"Now is the winter of our discount tent..."  :-)
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(Sorry, I can't figure out how to embed the actual picture here!  Duh.)
Have you seen the old movie "The Goodbye Girl" with Richard Dreyfuss playing an aspiring actor?  The funniest part of the movie is when he gets trapped into playing an extremely gay Richard III in an off-Broadway play that only lasts 1 night.
shines:
You have got to be the most thought full and thoughtful person that I know. I would love to see you try your hand at writing. You seem to have a calling to literature.

Simone

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"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation, compassion."

"Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being."

"Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it."

I noticed that it was the birthday of
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abigbat:
Hello you! I haven't been here in an age, how are you? Want to grab a cup of tea sometime? 
earthtocat:
I've only read the first half of the second sex but I love it. can't wait to read the other half
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