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Nov. 19th, 2008 04:01 pmLong lost 'Furby-like' primate discovered in Indonesia.
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An interesting Charlotte Bronte quote, with bonus word I'd never seen before:
Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition*.
*the act or process of swallowing (you, you smarty pants, probably already knew what it meant)
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In late March, beginning of April of next year, my brother, sister, and I are flying to Buffalo and renting a car to take our father and ourselves on a pilgrimage back to Philadelphia, hopefully to visit the house my sibs and I grew up in, and other old tromping grounds and sites of note. This is kind of an unprecedented thing for my long-splintered-in-all-directions, not very family reunion-focused or organized siblings and I.
Looking at what's been done (via Google Earth) to the beautiful 1880s fieldstone and oak house of our childhood by the Korean Presbyterian church that now owns it is a little depressing. So many huge, beautiful trees gone--all of them, in fact. Crazy.
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An interesting Charlotte Bronte quote, with bonus word I'd never seen before:
Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition*.
*the act or process of swallowing (you, you smarty pants, probably already knew what it meant)
*
In late March, beginning of April of next year, my brother, sister, and I are flying to Buffalo and renting a car to take our father and ourselves on a pilgrimage back to Philadelphia, hopefully to visit the house my sibs and I grew up in, and other old tromping grounds and sites of note. This is kind of an unprecedented thing for my long-splintered-in-all-directions, not very family reunion-focused or organized siblings and I.
Looking at what's been done (via Google Earth) to the beautiful 1880s fieldstone and oak house of our childhood by the Korean Presbyterian church that now owns it is a little depressing. So many huge, beautiful trees gone--all of them, in fact. Crazy.
