http://mixedmoss.voxtropolis.com the haphazard record of a life lived large Wed, 01 Aug 2007 05:02:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Heard the news just today; hurt so I didn't know quite what to say. Sometimes things seem so wrong I don't have the faith to pray. Your motherly hug just seems more real than a God I can't touch and a love I can't feel. But you always used to ask me, once in a while,  and your lovely eyes ... http://mixedmoss.voxtropolis.com/2007/08/01/gail/ After an interminable amount of time unemployed, I now have two jobs. One full time job selling cosmetics (I hate that job), and one part time job at a coffee shop (I love that job). Unfortunately the job I hate pays much better than the job I don't hate, so ... http://mixedmoss.voxtropolis.com/2007/03/15/how-i-have-been-lately/ by Switchfoot  Daisy, give yourself away Lookup at the rain The beautiful display Of power and surrender Giving us today And she gives herself away Rain, another rainy day Comes up from the ocean Give herself away She comes down easy On rich and dead the same And she gives herself away Let it go Daisy, Let it go Open up your fist This fallen ... http://mixedmoss.voxtropolis.com/2007/03/08/daisy/ Today, nothing went right at all (and a few things went catastrophically wrong). But then, I went to my dance class. And now I'm feeling pretty good. I guess things even out. http://mixedmoss.voxtropolis.com/2007/02/21/its-the-little-things/ Life has taken on an oddly surrealist quality lately. Like the Beatles song Come Together, or a painting by Chagall. The things in my life seem oddly disconnected and unrelated. I feel sure they must have some kind of significance, taken together if not separately, if only I could grasp ... http://mixedmoss.voxtropolis.com/2007/02/19/theres-a-fine-line-between-madness-and-genius-melissa/ We have a silver thaw right now. Very bad for the driving conditions. Because my family's house is on a state route, the county plows our cars in several times a day. My dad is out of town, and my sister and I are so tired of digging the cars ... http://mixedmoss.voxtropolis.com/2007/02/17/silver-thaw/ There is a beautiful woman with a burn on her forehead where God kissed her. There is a small cut at her wrist and  blood drips out. Each drop becomes a world. In the worlds there are very good and beautiful creatures and there are very ugly and terrible creatures ... http://mixedmoss.voxtropolis.com/2007/02/10/extinguishing-the-world/ The other day, I started to notice that the world was looking weary and grimy and seemed to be in just the sort of condition that would be helped by a long hot bath. So I ran one in my bathroom and popped her in. She soaked for a while ... http://mixedmoss.voxtropolis.com/2007/01/24/bathing-the-world/ So, Saturday (the sixth of January) was Epiphany. My favorite holiday. What is Epiphany, you ask? It is the holiday celebrating the day the three magi, a.k.a. wise men, a.k.a. kings, arrived to find the baby Jesus, who wasn't such a baby any more-- about two years old, they say. Definitely ... http://mixedmoss.voxtropolis.com/2007/01/08/epiphany/ Alex recently posted about culture; and in his post he mentioned soccer quite incidentally. But he got me thinking about sports and how we grow up with them, and here is my response. It's an interesting insight that imprinting happens before the age of seven. I couldn't care less about American ... http://mixedmoss.voxtropolis.com/2007/01/06/take-me-out-to-the-ballgame/