On Wed, 21 May 2003 19:19:25 -0500 Shalanna  writes:
> *But* . . . I just placed in the finals of a contest that gets my 
> first 
> three chapters sent off to Anna Genoese at Tor.  She's looking for 
> stuff 
> for that new fantasy line.  So let's see what happens.  (All that 
> happens 
> is you either get a certificate that you placed in the contest or 
> not, 
> unless she wants to see the whole book.)
> 
> So perhaps all is not lost.

=digits crossed!=
> 
> I'm fighting off this weird bacterial infection that went into my 
> sinsuses 
> and then my right ear.  Mother has a mild case of the same 

there's something going around
A Mom who waits for her kids the sametime I do had full laryngitus.
I've just had a general stuffiness -- though yesterday the ear gurgled.
It's fine again today.

Well, you know what they say about colds: take something and you'll kick
it in a week; let it be and it will take you 7 days....

> thing.  Bleah.  We think the doctor's assistant has finally licked 
> the ear 
> thing (literally, by washing my ear out with a pressure hose--a 
> really   weird feeling, but immediately ended the humming and tinnitus
and 
> pressure   in that ear!) 

always a relief

> yesterday (and I had antibiotics, drops, etc.).  I'm 
> also   handling the roof repairs and fixing the car after severe hail 
> damage, you   know, just the usual.  But that's life.

in spades

> Mother's latest test results came out good, though, so that's good.  

excellent!

> Thanks 
> to all who asked about her and kept us in their thoughts!  That's 
> what   saves us.  Whatever you believe, happens.  

but not often enough to get cocky.
Sometimes the answer is "no" -- and sometimes it's something else again.

> I've concluded that 
> consensus   reality is exactly that.  

Maybe. I see a lot of randomness, too -- always liked the D&D model with
dice rolls throwing a random element into things.
Sometimes you make your saving throw (and sometimes you have more
"plusses," making it a surer thing), sometimes you don't.
But the power of joint positive thinking seems to have effect. [Amen]

> Now, if I can find who it is who thinks I 
> shouldn't or won't finally sell something, we're in business.

=gentle chuckle=

lifted this the other day:
The Navajo culture that had produced Acting Lieutenant Jim Chee had
taught him the power of words and of thought. Western metaphysicians
might argue that language and imagination are products of reality. But in
their own migrations out of Mongolia and over the icy Bering Strait, the
Navajos brought with them a much older Asian philosophy. Thoughts, and
words that spring from them, bend the individual's reality. To speak of
death is to invited it. To think of sorrow is to produce it. He would
think of his duties instead of his love. 
                                -- Tony Hillerman, "The Fallen Man"

[one positive of having a 10 week old puppy who needs watching over, I'm
getting a lot of reading done]

=hugs=
-B

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The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a
fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but
when they do. --Nan Fairbrother
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I've learned....that no matter how serious your life requires you to be,
everyone needs a friend to act goofy with. --Andy Rooney

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