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TCRWP Transcript 12.11.13

TCRWP 12.11.13

I Hate My Mac

After years of being with Apple I am ready to switch away.  I “upgraded” to the new Mavericks OS along with updating Pages, Numbers, Mail etc.  Now I am unable to merge fields from a Numbers spreadsheet to a Pages document nor am I able to access my Exchange account in Mail.  This is so inconvenient that, like I said, I am ready to switch .  I was even thinking of getting the new iPad but then I see it continues to have 1 gb of RAM, poor printer support, virtually no peripheral access (READ USB port)–so nope.  And I was so excited that I would finally be able to buy books on iBooks and read them on all my machines.

Raison d’etre

Raison d’etre

Deep down isn’t this a compelling reason for why we do what we do?  The hope, the prospect for change, the creativity, the spark, the magic, the feeling, the soul, the meaning.

… What would it mean to live
in a city whose people were changing
each other’s despair into hope?

You yourself must change it.



… Though your life felt arduous
new and unmapped and strange
what would it mean to stand on the first
page of the end of despair?

-Adrienne Rich

Hurt no living thing…

Hurt no living thing:
Ladybird, nor butterfly,
Nor moth with dusty wing,
Nor cricket chirping cheerily,
Nor grasshopper so light of leap,
Nor dancing gnat, nor beetle fat,
Nor harmless worms that creep.

Nor Trayvon Martin, Nor George Zimmerman, Nor kids at Sandy Hook Elementary, Nor…

Christina Georgina Rossetti. All rights reserved

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