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make me an instrument of peace.
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
grant that i may not so much seek to be comforted as to comfort;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we recieve;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

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The Starfish Story
Original Story by: Loren Eisley

One day a man was walking along the beach when he noticed a boy picking something up and gently throwing it into the ocean.

Approaching the boy, he asked, “What are you doing?”

The youth replied, “Throwing starfish back into the ocean. The surf is up and the tide is going out. If I don’t throw them back, they’ll die.”

“Son,” the man said, “don’t you realize there are miles and miles of beach and hundreds of starfish?
You can’t make a difference!”

After listening politely, the boy bent down, picked up another starfish, and threw it back into the surf. Then, smiling at the man, he said, ”I made a difference for that one.”
BEST WHEN CHILLED - April 17th, 2009
as indeed we all are

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12:40 am April 17th, 2009
asltw
bookbinding then knitting
GUYS. if you are into bookbinding at all, BUY THIS BOOK RIGHT NOW. even if you're not.

so. still knitting. have started socks with the bananasun honeytree yarn (which is the "yellow with streaks of brown and specks of red and green" that i dyed a while ago). they are adorable so far. they're based on a pattern called "duckies" which was originally done in a different weight of yarn so i had to modify it but they are SO CUTE. i don't make cute things all that often (or i try not to. it happens sometimes anyway). i need more yarn to dye. specifically, i need more yarn to dye yellow. i have discovered a way to make a tawny-gold wood-in-sun color (take your sock blank and don't soak it too well. dye one side yellow, set it, then turn it over and do the other side brown. red, white and green specks are optional) and i need to make some. SO BAD.

also i am halfway through the 4th ball of my 6-ball (or so) Past-Life Shawl. it's at nearly 4 feet across. each row takes like 20 minutes now. each ball of yarn adds only a few inches to the length-across. ...i still love it.

i also love christopher moore all of a sudden. not that i'm really surprised by that, but i just thought i would mention it, in case someone was looking for a good time.
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