January 12, 2008

• Three Things

  NightlyDreams tagged me with this questionaire…

  1.  3 things that scare me
  the future, fanatics of any religion, people who think with their wallets not their hearts

  2.  3 people who make me laugh
  Um…. my nephew, Stephen Colbert, my subconscious?

  3.  3 things i love
  the world, literature, music

  4.  3 things i hate
  ignorance, selfishness, allergies
  
  5.  3 things i don’t understand
  I don’t understand why people can’t agree to disagree.
  I don’t understand why some people don’t seem to even know that they are alive.
  I don’t understand why people can’t love one another without expecting something in exchange.

  6.  3 things on my desk (depends on what you consider my desk)
  A little wooden fishy from my mother, an indian head penny from 1890 that I found, a glow in the dark star

  7.  3 things i’m doing right now
  trying to keep my toes warm because I’m too lazy to put on socks, trying to ignore my noisey neighbors with whom we share a wall, digesting some cherries?

  8.  3 things i want to do before i die
  become a well-known writer, meet the Dalai Lama, visit Ireland

  9.  3 things i can do
  reason, feel, grow

  10.  3 things you should listen to
  nothingness, the ocean, the wind (especially when it is blowing through the trees)

  11.  3 things you should never listen to
  words that make you feel that there is something wrong with you, the words of fanatics and politicians, doubts
  
  12.  3 things i’d like to learn
  how to play a musical instrument
  Latin, Greek, or Sanskrit
  how to take a compliment without feeling embarrassed or unworthy

  13.  3 favorite foods
  Pizza, butter almond ice cream, various exotic rices
  
  14.  3 beverages i drink regularly
  coca cola, water, I’m allergic to everything else, it’s just those two

  Lessee….. I’m gonna tag BoureeMusique, FL_boi, NormallyInsane, TidBitz, sprolee, and wunderkind348.

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  January 12th

  The Roman festival of Compitalia honors the Lares and Manes, household gods. The Compitalia and the Feralia are part of the Mania. Mania is the goddess referred to as the Mother or Grandmother of Ghosts. The Romans celebrate the Compitalia on the 12th of January and also the 6th of March. Loaves of bread are fashioned in the shape of men and called Maniae. Woolen effigies of men and women are dedicated to the goddess Mania and hung at the doors of all the houses in Rome in the hope that, in her rounds through the city, she will accept the effigies for the inmates of the house and so spare the living from death for another year.
  

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