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There is a cemetery in Panama that I much miss. Corozal Cemetery. As some self-imagined warrior in Panama, I’d almost daily—in late afternoon or early evening—run the gauntlet amongst the dead in Corozal Cemetery.
It is an interesting cemetery carved out of jungle, encompassing numerous rolling hills, and interconnected by a series of looping, curving walkways and roads. Everywhere there is beauty in this cemetery. For instance, there are many expressions of tropical flowers like the architecturally curious Bird of Paradise; the Flame of Wood (ixora) with its clusters of pointed-petaled flowers in red, yellow, pink and white; the hibiscus which stay open all day and close in the evening; the lantana which come in two colors and change colors as they mature. There are also numerous ornamental shrubs and plants and trees such as banana, mangoes, coconuts, banyans, and palms spread all about. There are countless species of birds such as giant parrots, tanagers, warblers, and quetzals easily spotted in the trees. And occasionally even more exotic jungle life such as monkeys, snakes, bats, and iguanas can be witnessed maneuvering about.

So though I would run amidst the dead, I took in all of this life! In fact, though the density and diversity of living biomass is less in the cemetery than in the proximate jungle, the ability to quickly tour and appreciate the exotic native magnificence of the biota—as a sampling—is much enhanced simply because so much of the obscuring jungle is beaten back. So less is more: as the cemetery always abounds with discoverable life!

So, too, does Xanga seem to me a cemetery spawning with life. So much life, in fact, always thrust so forward with vitality, it would seem, that the moribund is practically unnoticeable. The Featured Content, The Recently Updated, and The Newly Created all attest to teeming activity. And, of course, to these realms we most often turn our attention. But just as with Corozal Cemetery when running I would ,from time to time, postpone notice of the luxuriantly living to ponder the out-of-sight dead, so, too, in Xangaland, I am inclined occasionally to pay my respects to the apparently moribund. This would be easy to do if there were virtual grave markers strewn about or if there was a feature called *The Least Recently Updated*, but the Xangods apparently loathe all that wanes and declines and so have made all such very obliquely noticeable at best.

Nonetheless, I have dug some old once familiar faces up! Grave robber, do you say? Nay—I merely pay my respects (besides, they may be back!) :

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Josiepoo last updated on Sunday, January 14, 2001

I want to play with everything that glows.

—I only hope she didn’t get a bar of plutonium for Xmas—

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EarthAngel last updated on Monday, January 01, 2001

                            Smoking

Before I go to bed I have to keep track of how many cigs this fool smoked  today....10......ten to much....I will keep posting every day..to keep you informed on my quitting business...This fool is not going to be a fool anymore!

—Let’s hope not being a fool only consisted in leaving Xanga—

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multithought last updated on Friday, January 19, 2001

ATTENTION.........TO ALL.........

My problems with my "dirty" computer insides have been taken care of....No more dust inside my CPU.....No more dust inside my power supply.........
Ready to rock and roll again.......So.......I am going to go to sleep tonight and think of something good to write and then with the dawn of a new day, I will be back to get setting some very unique thoughts to screen......

—Thoughts perhaps so unique that they can’t even be seen. …Or you wonder what other of the computer’s insides were sucked out!—

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In any case, here are statistics about what’s current and what’s not:

Out of an estimated 2,872 members, 1,225 were “active” posters in the past two weeks, 1,647 have not been “active” posters over the past two weeks, and 1,292 of these haven’t posted since February 1^st.   By the way, the number of “active” posters in the past week is double ( 1100 compared to avg. 550) what it had been the previous two weeks: welcome Anglefire inductees!