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This journal will be used for updates on my main web havens: alightonthewater.blogspot.com/—an archive for my past and present artistic works, and its sister blog, areflectiononthewater.blogspot.com/—for my personal ramblings on art, life, and everything else. They are a more central place to find the work I've done.
Love & Peace,
Firieth Sídhe
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- Mood:
quixotic
I’m tired—stayed up too late last night listening to a Rolling Stone interview of Bono that I hadn’t heard before. It’s a long, seven-part podcast and I thought I’d just listen to the first half of the first part. Right. I wound up listening to the whole hour-long section.
Bono was talking about his life before U2. His words painted a picture of growing up in a lower-middle-class Dublin neighbourhood, with family, friends, religion, school, crazy street gangs, and all the rest. It’s a picture I’d seen glimpses of from reading about the band and watching their TV appearances, but this was much clearer and more personal.
Hearing Bono tell the story of his youth was further confirmation of how and why I connect with him. However, what really resonated with me were two things I’d never heard him talk about before...
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- Mood:
tired
I’ve lost count of the articles I’ve read recently in which President Obama is fearfully portrayed as the “Antichrist”. I’ve also read numerous editorials that optimistically claim he is America’s “Savior”. Both views seem exaggerated to me.
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The Dawn After
It’s the dawn after the day;
Feels like I’m hungover—
Too weak to stand or run away.
They’re fighting out my door.
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- Mood:
thoughtful
Spring is short lived here. It seems only yesterday I was noticing the first buds on the maple out my window; now it’s fully leafed. I’ve been wearing shorts, t-shirts and nothing on my feet, whenever I can.
With the return of warm weather, I’ve also started practicing longbow archery again with my recurve (who’s elvish name shall remain secret). The first evening I practiced, I shot a round of six arrows and got only one to hit the hay bales. I was sore all through my shoulders the day after, but I’m gradually getting back into it, my aim is improving and the ache is starting to go away.
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Barefoot
Saw a blazing bush in the city yesterday,
Flames rose up red but it didn’t burn away.
Sandals and stilettos hurried past so fast
I thought no one would wait to see it stay.
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- Mood:
hopeful
My dad took these photographs of my final 10-adult Classical Ballet introductory class, yesterday morning (Thanks ada!). It was the end of nine weeks of classes together.
(Click each photo for full-size view.)
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Backgrounds: U2–Lyrics, Macphisto, Recording NLOTH
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- Mood:
sleepy
5/13/09
Today, I feel rather "disinclined to acquiesce" to writing in here, but so much has happened that I must record it or risk even more work later. So, I’m journaling out of duty. Meh.
Intense work on GP&R recital began (for me, at least) on Monday the fourth. I was in the studio rehearsing my solo every day until the following Thursday. Beside that, I was writing countless tiny e-mails to the other teachers on everything from program acknowledgments to finale plans.
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- Mood: hopeful
THREE THINGS THAT SCARE ME:
01. losing those I love
02. failure
03. major world war/environmental troubles
THREE PEOPLE WHO MAKE ME LAUGH:
01. my brother Pip
02. U2
03. myself
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Post-Mortem
I took a shovel; buried them deep,
Those promises that wouldn’t keep.
They’re long dead; should be gone,
But rain keeps falling; falling on.
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- Mood:
sore
Yesterday was cleaning day—all day. I had the kitchen and main bath to deep-clean, plus the carpet in the living room and hall. Needless to say, it was long, exhausting work, but it had to be done, because we’ve been too busy to keep it up properly and the realtor was over for a meeting with my parents last night.
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4/24/09
The university on the east coast didn’t work out. Even though they did a phone interview, Ada literally got a “dear-applicant” e-mail from them. So that’s that. *SIGH*
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So this is Springtime
So this is springtime; what do we see?
A new day unfurling with leaves on the tree.
But here in America we’ve lost good trades
And over in Africa they’re dying of AIDS.
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- Mood:
lethargic
1. Reply to this post, and I will pick six of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.
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- Mood: sore
List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your LJ along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they're listening to.
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- Mood: hopeful
4/13/09
Ada didn’t get the job he interviewed for, though the people there liked him enough to agree to give him a review on his job-interviewing skills as he’s requested. We’re not heartbroken or thrilled about the loss of that option, but the more options we have, the better, of course. At least we have another interview in its place now.
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Photography: River Preserve, April 2009
My eldest younger brother, Pip, has kindly permitted me to include his work with mine. Photographs are labeled according to the artist.
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- Mood: hopeful
4/7/09
I’m thinking of a quote I can never quite remember—something about there being two types of people: those with time to write in their journals, and those who are too busy living. Unfortunately for my journal, I’ve erred in that latter category more often than not. Time to attempt an update....
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Something Right
If you knew what I lie awake at night and think about,
Felt every rush of rage in me, touched every drop of doubt;
Reached into my heart and head with nothing to keep you out,
You’d run away, repulsed, at the way my demons shout.
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- Mood:
blah
3/22/09
Thank God, the weekend is finally over. (Yes, I meant that!)
Yesterday, we went to a nearby city to get Ada’s interview outfit completed and pick up the pants he’d had tailored. That was a long, tiring, boring process, but we got the things we needed.
This morning, we went to church, as usual. The sermon was on Justification and Sanctification. I’ll write about that later if I have time, but I’ve had Justified/till we die/You and I/will magnify from Magnificent stuck in my head since then because of the theme and some things the pastor said. U2’s Christianity is certainly in their songs for those with ears to hear. They’re the closest I’ve found to modern-day parables.
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Backgrounds: Moulin Rouge!
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- Mood:
hungry
from pop_daisy of livejournal
This is harder than you may think! Think of 15 albums that had such a profound effect on you they changed your life or the way you looked at it. They sucked you in and took you over for days, weeks, months, years. These are the albums that you can use to identify time, places, people, emotions. These are the albums that no matter what they were thought of musically shaped your world. When you finish, tag 5 others.
I honestly tried to come up with fifteen, but couldn’t. So here are my top seven, in rough chronological order:
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B-Sides
I’m sick of shadowing you
Striving to follow your
Silver-studded footsteps
But you never notice, do you?
I’m a walking wraith
In incandescent light
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- Mood: sore
- Music:my brother practicing drums :)
- Mood: lethargic
3/16/09
The job hunt saga is picking up pace. Ada has a phone interview for the east coast university position on Friday, an in-person interview with a university in MI next week, and the TV station in KS is currently deciding who they’ll interview. Mom and Dad have spent a lot of time lately getting him properly (and expensively) outfitted for all of this, and I know they’ll be glad when everything’s settled. So will I.
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The View that Inspired "Golden Hour"...
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- Mood:
contemplative
- Mood:
good
2/28/09
Whatever doubts I’d had about U2’s new sound (and Bono’s voice aging), just went out the window. The reason? Watching the youtube clips of them playing on the Broadcasting House’s roof above the London streets for BBC Radio 2.
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Backgrounds: Actors & Actresses
Renée Zellweger; Kristen Stewart:
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- Mood:
calm
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