The most important thing you can do today... :-)

Because my sister Melissa is awesome, and because you can do something very simple that will make her very happy, I'm asking you-- and everyone you know--to click here and donate a dollar (or more) so that she can visit her boyfriend this Christmas!  Come now friends, spread the goodwill through all your social networks! 

Currently Reading No Future Without Forgiveness By Desmond Tutu see related

It's a shame that I have had nothing to say on xanga for so long.  And even more shameful that I would allow that last entry to stay plastered on the front page for so long!  Well... profundity is over-rated anyhow.

Let me just say that I never thought of the desert as beautiful until this last weekend in New Mexico at the wedding of Ginny Hargrave...who is now Ginny Bracht.  That one's going to take a while to get used to.  I love it that the first two people to get married, out of the Loony Bin, are Ginny (who complained that the boys were going to eat her when we dragged her over to the brother floor freshman year) and Sarah Stinson (who reportedly has been known to hide behind trees when certain young men are in the vicinity).

The sun is painting strips of gold across the blades of grass.  The fresh scent of life is all around me.  Across the park, a toddler takes halting steps, her dad crouching behind with a video camera.  My hair, carefully brushed hours before, slips gently past my face and flings itself joyfully, carelessly into the breeze in celebration of spring.

The world is alive with the promise of hope

of laughter, of song, of daisies that grow

up from the dark earth, and expectantly grope

for the sunlight above.  They steadfastly know

YOU are here.  And Your music the song

that's been sung forever, and forever will be

beyond human words, that each yearning heart longs

                   to sing defiantly

                             to all that cripples and wrongs

                                   to live embracingly, embraced, for all eternity

Currently Watching The Importance of Being Earnest By Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Frances O'Connor (II), Reese Witherspoon, Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson, Anna Massey, Edward Fox, Patrick Godfrey, Charles Kay, Cyril Shaps, Marsha Fitzalan, Finty Williams, Guy Bensley, Christina Robert, Kiera Chaplin, Alexandra Kobi, Suzie Boyle, Kate Coyne, Bernadette Iglich see related

Unconnected but entertaining quotes...

Algy: My dear Aunt Augusta, I mean he was *found out*. The doctors found out that Bunbury could not live - that is what I mean - so Bunbury died.
Lady Bracknell: He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians.

[on hearing that Jack's wastrel brother died suddenly]
Miss Prism: What a lesson for him. I trust he will profit by it.

“Women only [call each other sister] when they have called each other a lot of other things first” (Algernon)

"The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present." (Lady Bracknell)

"I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing." (Lady Bracknell) 

"Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?" (Jack)

"Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them."  (Algernon)