For (((VeryModern)))

who left the following comment as way of an explanation on a post down below:

I am just working through something, or rather a lot of somethings at once.

I posted what I thought was an explanation, but it was mistaken for something else (and easy to see why, although I didn't in advance) and so I had to pull it too, or fuel the fire.

For whatever reason xanga turns into a hot heat kitchen for me on a regular basis.  Each time it does, I am forced to retreat and regroup by my nature, and so this is what I am doing now.  
Fighting fires.   Root for me!

Okay.  Let's get another hose over here, quickly.  And crack that hydrant open--Xanga's a'crackling and needs a good drenching...

The young men in Athens are doing absolutely shocking things, and there's no excuse for it.  For there are very fine-looking girls available at the brothels.  And you can see them standing there outside, breast bared in the bright sunshine, almost naked and lined up conveniently one after another.  From these anybody can pick out a favorite: skinny or fat; curvy, lanky, or bent over; young or old; firm or lush...These girls just about drag you in, calling the old men "Daddy," and the younger ones "Lover Boy."  And you can have her, cheap and without any risk, available day and evening--and any way you want her.

Xenarchus

Athens, 549 BC, remarking on the 1st legally established public brothel.

Were those the "good ole days" ??

"Of that which we cannot speak, we must consign to silence."
       Ludwig Wittgenstien, Tractatus

So James has announced a period of silence, VeryModern has seemingly embraced the same for an unexplained reason, and space movies where you see and hear warring ships explode in space are bullshit 'cause there ain't no sound in a vacuum. (okay, I know it's possible that at least one someone is going to check the accuracy of this proposition, conclude that his, her vacuum makes sound, and consider me an idiot.  Fine.)

But as a community of Xangeroos, we've been busier than ever:

3/9/2001

Number of active posts this week up 4% from 548 (last week) to 571 …

Average number of eProps on the featured top 100 up (6.0 vs. 5.4)

7/11/01

Number of active posts in the past day: 1075.

Average number of eProps on the featured top 100 for the past day: (15)

7/18/01

Number of active posts in the past day: 1125.

Average number of eProps on the featured top 100 for the past day: (16.5)

Power to the Peeps!

To phrase (or paraphrase) Rumi: “Life is like a cup upon the ocean...soon it will fill and sink and not one bubble will remain where it has subsided.” 

Yes...not one bubble will remain, but the ocean will never cease to froth with effervescent bubbles and resurgent foam.  Then, too, the cup which sinks becomes full and remains full--the truly full-filled state of any container.  And possibly, no probably, that sunken container will become a shell, a shelter, a refuge for other forms of journeying life. 

But I don't want a hermit crab living in my favorite beer mug...yet.  So embracing bouyancy and sucking on that big bubble of air in my chest called breath, I'll float awhile.  Thank you.  But not one bubble of carbonation will remain in my beer mug when I'm done with it!  I say: Rumi, come drink with me, and let's kick ass!

An eerie calm has beset the land.
I feel like I'm walking in the desert at noon hard-boiling my toes in the sand.

So rarified, so tenuous the connection seems.

Who pretends to be psychic?  Pretense is sham.  What you are, I am.

So has anyone else missed VeryModern?  She's MIA along with her last couple of once-public posts.

Is the dialectic reverberating?  VM--MIA, JadedFey in an extra-YaYa mode, GudKarma suffering bad karma??

Every now and then, a certain sense, an inkling.  Xanga is doing it again.

I love Premium Xanga.

But I miss the ads!

Can't I eat my cake and blow out the candles too? (I'll cry if i want to...)

Ah!!!  Now I feel better!