The Greeks had several words to better describe different types of “love” that occur:

Agapē-is the godly love-unconditional, based on principle

Storgē-is familial love-the love we have for our children
Philia-is a non-sexual love-love of friends
Eros-is sexual love between people

It seems than many people confuse what love is. Even as concise as the ancient (and modern for all I know) Greeks had it, there still is no easy way to define all aspects of it.

There is no ‘set’ definition that fits all, so choose what you can and enjoy what you have. I know I have and always will have all aspects.

Especially Eros

‘The scope and size of the volume was such that it could not be contained in a single book, and so Tor proudly presents The Gathering Storm as the first of three novels that will make up A Memory of Light.’

The Countdown is on! The final Wheel of time book, will be three books, with The Gathering Storm being the first installment. I sure hope that this is more than a way to get more money for publishing more books based upon an authors name. The quality is there to support that quantity is tradition follows, and with Jordan’s editor/widow in the thick of it there is no reason for it not to be, especially at 748 pages as given on the site linked below.

OK, we all know I run on a MAC. However, I often need to sit at a Windows machine. Much fun is made of the conspiracy of keeping MAC down and the competition between them. However I came across this video and find it great that the Two big guns are able to sit down and have a bit of fun together.

That being shown… I also ran into an article about Windows 7 and how 83% of businesses and not planning on upgrading even tho XP is days from the end of support and no longer has service pack releases. For the most part MAC users look forward to the few bug fixes, feature improvements and NEW features that come with a new OS release. This does NOT seem to be the case with Windows as can be read in the following article from Information Week.

Through Dianna, new fiance and wonderful person, I have been forced to expand my knowledge. I now have begun to learn how to code css much deeper and have been prompted to learn template building/modifications above and beyond what I have wanted to in the past.

One example is this site, Find and Convert, the company that she works for, virtually from home. This link is to their blog which I have the privilege of working on. The main site is handled by another company. Here is a sample of a post the boss has made about Twitter. (I made the re-tweet button using available clip art as a base) Bernie is using twitter to full advantage and has been open and informative about the potential it holds.

‘The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public
debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and
controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest
Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on
public assistance.’

Cicero – 55 BC

Evidently nothing.

(don’t know for sure Cicero said this…. but its great!)

Amazing how simple things can change your outlook. Simply look around yourself and discover what makes you smile.

These things need to be attended to.

It is almost 1:00 a.m. so I am off to attend to someone who makes me smile and make sure she keeps warm while sleeping.

In my next life I want to live my life backwards. You start out dead and get that out of the way. Then you wake up in an old people’s home feeling better every day. You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension, and then when you start work, you get a goldwatch and a party on your first day. You work for 40 years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement. You party, drink alcohol, and are generally promiscuous, then you are ready for high school. You then go to primary school, you become a kid, you play. You have no responsibilities, you become a baby until you are born. And then you spend your last 9 months floating in luxurious spa-like conditions with central heating and room service on tap, larger quarters every day and then Voila! You finish off as an orgasm!
I rest my case.
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Now is your chance to give it a try. Good luck!

The light comes and goes
Darkness falls, darkness will lift
Sunshine warms my soul

I cried tonight
One tear
I don’t even know why for sure.
I lay in bed after an all to short rest

And there it was

Is it the slow and steady realization of the possibility of lost love
That I have feared in my soul may never be, no matter what my heart feels
or
The desire for a relationship that seems so far away
always just out of reach, so close, but not close enough

In the long run it does not matter
Tears fall

thoughts flash across the pages of my mind
so fast I can not keep up

a never ending litany of images, words, thoughts, fears, wants, desires, goals, objects obtainable, objects unobtainable, more things than I can list here they fly so fast never allowing easy rest always keeping me awake until the crash of exhaustion hits simply because in my mind I am lost and have no direction in my life right now only the never ending stream of thoughts to keep me running far into the night with little escape because comfort is so far away and the emptiness and isolation overwhelms me at times leaving a shell of who and what I know I should and can be.

No rest, only exhaustion
opening the door for the pain
is the pain caused by internal strife
or does it cause it… the chicken or the egg

Help me my friends, I am incomplete

Not what you think
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The crush of LIFE
Weighs heavy on me now
so much stress
so much pressure

The relief I have is needed
the time is all good
and appreciated
and loved