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posted March 07, 2008 03:15 PM            

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Should we do a Group Reading?

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"There is no use trying," said Alice; "one can't believe impossible things." "I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." Lewis Carroll

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posted March 07, 2008 03:52 PM              

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That would be cool!

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Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year....
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep. ~Robert Frost

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posted March 07, 2008 11:36 PM            

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Great idea!

Thank you!

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posted March 08, 2008 10:54 PM            

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How many would agree to read it again?

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"There is no use trying," said Alice; "one can't believe impossible things." "I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." Lewis Carroll

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posted March 09, 2008 01:22 AM              

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I'll read it again!

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posted March 09, 2008 10:31 PM            

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Count me in. I have started reading from Canto one.

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posted March 10, 2008 05:25 PM            

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"There is no use trying," said Alice; "one can't believe impossible things." "I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." Lewis Carroll

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posted March 10, 2008 11:53 PM              

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On page 3, we find out wonderful information...

so, duly swaddled in lacy-white, and hopefully blessed by Holy Light
I was baptized from the the marble font of Trinity Episcopal
as instructed by John . . and also as insisted upon
by my very proper, paternal Capricorn grandmother, whom, I adored
and called Nana, after the St. Bernard dog in Peter Pan

there was, I'm told, a minor fuss about the sprinkling ceremony
springing from the fixed fact that my stubborn Taurus mother
had once been a Baptist Sunday school teacher . .
naturally, my majestic Leo father won the denominational battle
for my soul

one does not argue with the royal Lion and win -

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LOve and Magic!

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posted March 12, 2008 03:23 PM              

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bottom of page 16, and top of 17 . . .

Dado used to un-snap his old, worn purse
and give me a penny
warning me not to spend it all at once
then tell me tales about a small girl named Yellow Wax
who absolutely NEVER stopped to count to ten
and who, therefore, fell into trouble, over and over again

he meant me -- when I was bad

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posted March 14, 2008 11:27 PM            

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"I didn't understand why I couldn't call Jesus on the phone when I was all full of hurt, like the time I fell in the dirt, playing Red Light and skinned my knee..."
Canto One, pg 7

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posted March 15, 2008 01:42 PM              

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That's great, sVirgo, why can't we call Jesus on the phone?
Funny, how we only find the connection to OverSoul, in our deepest darkest times, in our suffering and pain, thus do we finally turn to our True S-elf in Heaven, and MOther and Father God, The Father is the Son, story, like Isis and Osiris and Horus...
and Father God, MOther Mary, and Jesus...hehe, that story was not told correctly...

LOve and Reverence to ALL. ...

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posted March 15, 2008 05:23 PM              

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Anybody ever experience those recurring dreams in your childhood...where you just "will yourself" to levitate using your mind and it feels so natural and vivid?

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posted March 15, 2008 09:43 PM            

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"I used to sit alone...all by myself, in the dark in that big,cozy-warm bedroom...
just watch the snowflakes fall past the street light...
making a wish on each falling flake that very soon I would awake and discover..Oh, joy!"
Canto one, pg 14

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posted March 16, 2008 12:47 AM              

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ListensToTrees, maybe we really did levitate, hehe
in dreams I fly..
astral travel I fly and Hover..

In Heaven, I float

Like Hope

And do we all Re-Member, our very first sight of a Rainbow?

LOve and Magic!

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posted March 20, 2008 06:57 PM            

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I am taking a break on reading until I get a job. I been officially laid off today.

Thank you!

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posted March 20, 2008 08:18 PM              

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sVirgo,

I am so sorry to hear that..I will be praying for you, and will send an email..
Big Hug of LOve, and just know,
everything is going to be okay...

LOve to YOU, and ALL. ...

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posted March 21, 2008 01:24 PM            

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Thank you so much lotusheartone!

You have a big heart!

Love to YOU too!

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posted March 21, 2008 09:04 PM              

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Mwah!

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posted March 22, 2008 11:15 PM            

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"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." Charles Schultz

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posted March 23, 2008 09:10 PM              

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lol !! I love your new ending motto Randall !

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posted May 30, 2008 07:56 PM            

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Is anyone reading right now? I just finished Canto One.

Why does Dado call her "Yellow Wax?" I don't remember if that is explained later in the book.

One of my favorite parts of this Canto is after the storm he tells her that Yellow Wax had been very good that day.

I don't understand the "Lost and Found"/Nickname connection. My curiosity is going mad though since I read Randall's first post on this thread.

On to Canto Two!

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posted May 31, 2008 02:45 PM            

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There's a running theme of lost and found (the rosary beeds, for instance) leading up to a very big one later in the book. You'll understand then.

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"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." Charles Schultz

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posted February 13, 2011 07:02 PM            

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OK confession ... I almost levitated once, but that was when I was a drug addict and trippin' so maybe it doesn't count : ) The description of the storm and the feelings that came over Linda in anticipation of kittens and puppies falling from the sky makes me so happy inside I just want to scream! When I was a child I had very deep feelings about God and I have two memories of connecting like that with the spiritual world ... one is when I offered a rose to God ... not a burnt offering happily but I made an altar of our gate post ... it was made of brick and had a nice flat top and it's what I imagined an altar would look like from the Bible stories I read (by "read I mean heard I guess and I looked at the pictures ... we had one of those illustrated children's bibles). Anyway I prayed to God that this was my present for him ... it was a big beautiful red rose I picked myself.
The other time I connected quite earnestly with God is when I made a vow that if God made me a ballerina I would always dance to worship him. I'm still waiting on that one ... here's a good reason to strive for immortality I guess!!! I'm not a ballerina yet!!! What's up with that??? lol : D
As for the book being autobiographical or fictional, I have no problem with the distinction. Before ever reading Gooberz I was drawn to the promise that it would be my very own story .. and for sure it is.

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be who you are and say what you feel cos those who matter don't mind and those that mind don't matter!

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