Tuesday, January 31, 2006

 

Goddess Desktops

Yes,I have been at it again creating desktops. It is just so much fun. Click each link below to see the desktop. To save a desktop, left click on the image and choose save as to whatever place on you computer you save such things. My apologies to those whose art I filched off the Internet.

Aphrodite

Butterflies

Firefly

Hope

Kay

Legend

Men Into Frogs

More Than Just Us

Omar

Scarborough Fair

Sedona

The Goddess Calls

posted by deborah 5:02 AM

Sunday, January 15, 2006

 

A Pastor's Perspective
Updated

"The children of your servants will live in Your presence; their descendants will be established before You." Psalm 102:28

Anymore it seems that a nearly unending pattern of greed, insecurity, selfishness and ambition are excused with the effective but misleading mantra of, "We're doing what's best for the children." . . . Read More

posted by deborah 2:50 PM

 

New Desktop

Hey, ho. I was feeling creative again, and since I love dragons I decided to do a desktop I call WOMEN OF THE DRAGON. Full size.

posted by deborah 8:04 AM

Friday, January 13, 2006

 

Friday the 13th
Bah, humbug (as it were)

My friend, Robbie, has Friday the 13th as his favorite day (and yes, the grim reaper is his favorite hero). So where did the superstition come from? According to an article by David Emery

It is said: If 13 people sit down to dinner together, all will die within the year. The Turks so disliked the number 13 that it was practically expunged from their vocabulary (Brewer, 1894). Many cities do not have a 13th Street or a 13th Avenue. Many buildings don't have a 13th floor. If you have 13 letters in your name, you will have the devil's luck (Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Theodore Bundy and Albert De Salvo all have 13 letters in their names). There are 13 witches in a coven.
Though no one can say for sure when and why human beings first associated the number 13 with misfortune, the belief is assumed to be quite old and there exist any number of theories purporting to trace its origins to antiquity and beyond.

It has been proposed, for example, that fears surrounding the number 13 are as ancient as the act of counting.

Primitive man had only his 10 fingers and two feet to represent units, according to this explanation, so he could count no higher than 12. What lay beyond that — 13 — was an impenetrable mystery to our prehistoric forebears, hence an object of superstition.
Which has an edifying ring to it, but one is left wondering — did primitive man not have toes?

Despite whatever terrors the numerical unknown held for their hunter-gatherer ancestors, ancient civilizations weren't unanimous in their dread of 13. The Chinese regarded the number as lucky, some commentators note, as did the Egyptians in the time of the pharaohs.

To the ancient Egyptians, these sources tell us, life was a quest for spiritual ascension which unfolded in stages — 12 in this life and a 13th beyond, thought to be the eternal afterlife. The number 13 therefore symbolized death — not in terms of dust and decay, but as a glorious and desirable transformation. Though Egyptian civilization perished, the death symbolism they conferred on the number 13 survived, only to be corrupted by later cultures who came to associate it with a fear of death instead of a reverence for the afterlife.

posted by deborah 8:44 AM

 

My Desktop Art

So, yesterday I got creative with my poetry and made a "Calendar" of desktop art using art snagged off the Internet (sorry folks) and my own poetry (which is copyright). Use the links below to access each month.

January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

posted by deborah 8:23 AM

 

New Blog

BTW, my new blog is at Yahoo.com under ID drgngrl4818 if you want to find it go to Yahho and searh for me by my ID.

posted by deborah 8:22 AM

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

 

Visit my new blog

My Cave: The not-so-fire-breathing adventures of an ordinary woman.

by connecting to my Yahoo Messenger ID: drgngrl4818.

posted by deborah 9:39 AM

Friday, December 30, 2005

 

Your results:
You are Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command)

Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command) 80% Derrial Book (Shepherd) 80% Wash (Ship Pilot) 60% Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic) 60% Dr. Simon Tam (Ship Medic) 60% Alliance 60% Inara Serra (Companion) 40% River (Stowaway) 40% Malcolm Reynolds (Captain) 20% Jayne Cobb (Mercenary) 20% A Reaver (Cannibal) 0%

Dependable and trustworthy. You love your significant other and you are a tough cookie when in a conflict.

Click here to take the "Which Serenity character am I?" quiz...

posted by deborah 8:37 PM

 

It's been too long

since I last blogged. Good grief. Where to start? My life fell down around my ears. My nephews/foster children decided I wasn't a good pseudo-mom. Well, the oldest did anyway. He is 18 and when he found out he couldn't rule the roost he decided to tear up the nest. He used a couple of poor decisions on my part to get CPS to remove his brothers from my custody. That is what the past 12 years meant to him. And is he content to leave well enough alone? No. He is still causing trouble. Oh, well. He'll reap what he sows eventually.

posted by deborah 8:37 PM

Sunday, August 28, 2005

 

Nice Word That

descant \DES-kant\, noun:
1. (Music) (a) A melody or counterpoint sung above the plain
song of the tenor. (b) The upper voice in part music.
2. A discourse or discussion on a theme.

posted by deborah 4:34 AM

Saturday, August 27, 2005

 

Comedy/Tragedy

Yep, that pretty much sums up my relationship with the one whose names means "beautiful, brilliant."

posted by deborah 7:29 AM

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