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Hope yours was good and that your son is doing better.

posted by Renigade on December 28, 2005 at 8:07 AM | link to this | reply

Hemlocker

I hope you had a good one too. Thanks again for your lovely comment about Montana.  

posted by Holy_Grail on December 27, 2005 at 5:27 PM | link to this | reply

Hemlocker, such a beautiful photograph~Happy New Year to You!

posted by Justi on December 27, 2005 at 5:04 PM | link to this | reply

In some ways, this describes my life and quest to decode Shakespeare.

Thanks for dropping by "now and again" and

Happy New Year!!!!!!!

posted by Decshak_ on December 27, 2005 at 11:36 AM | link to this | reply

Thanks Hemlocker

Love this quote.  Great words of wisdom.  May 2006 be abundant, with health, wealth and happiness.

posted by LifeByLisa on December 27, 2005 at 11:20 AM | link to this | reply

Great words of wisdom....

Thanks! 

posted by Passionflower on December 27, 2005 at 7:03 AM | link to this | reply

Thanks again, Hemlocker, for a wonderful post!

All the best to you in 2006!

posted by ms_bradrock on December 27, 2005 at 2:36 AM | link to this | reply

Hemlocker -- Thanks for posting that quote. We can be greedy

for answers sometimes!

posted by Jomei on December 27, 2005 at 2:12 AM | link to this | reply

Samantha--

You are kind.  Have a great New Year.

posted by Hemlocker on December 26, 2005 at 9:36 PM | link to this | reply

Your words are among my many blessings, this year

...and frankly, I struggle to find the words to express my gratitude to you and my other "Blogit Family Members."

Peace & Love to You All!  

Samantha

 

posted by rr2hsam on December 26, 2005 at 9:09 PM | link to this | reply

glennb--

Thanks for the caring comment.  I appreciate it and I appreciate your strength as unrelenting gadfly when many are needed.  Have a great and productive New Year. 

posted by Hemlocker on December 26, 2005 at 4:40 PM | link to this | reply

Hemlocker,

What a beautiful, deep quote.  I've never read that one, but I love Rilke's poetry,  I have to live with the unanswered questions, that weigh me down, but as he says, I probably couldn't live with the answers, but learning to live with ambiguity, with each day as a mystery, that I can do.  Enjoy your New Year!

posted by Blanche. on December 26, 2005 at 3:00 PM | link to this | reply

hAPPY HOLIDAYS TO YOU AS WELL, HEM.

posted by ARGUS on December 26, 2005 at 8:40 AM | link to this | reply

Wow, Hem, what a totally perfect quote!

Happy holidays to you, too!

posted by SpitFire70 on December 25, 2005 at 11:46 PM | link to this | reply

Hemlocker,

Be not discouraged by the magnitude of the journey! Make it and you will be rewarded! Humankind demands and deserves nothing less. Hopefully all your holiday wishes were realized! God Speed!

posted by Glennb on December 25, 2005 at 10:27 PM | link to this | reply

Dr. JPT--

Thank you.  I do appreciate it.  Have a great New Year.

posted by Hemlocker on December 25, 2005 at 9:31 PM | link to this | reply

telynor--

Thanks, and as kingmi  notes, she is a female.  Have a wonderful, productive New Year.

posted by Hemlocker on December 25, 2005 at 9:29 PM | link to this | reply

corbin--

Actually I am not "political" at all.  I just believe in justice.  I'm reluctant to wish anyone "peace" these days because, like "happiness", it leads to complacency.  I wish you a productive New Year.

posted by Hemlocker on December 25, 2005 at 9:28 PM | link to this | reply

I hope you are having a very enjoyable holiday. Lovely pic of the cardinal -- they are such gorgeous birds.

posted by telynor on December 25, 2005 at 7:20 PM | link to this | reply

Heavy/Deep

This is thought provoking!  I like your thinking and posts!

posted by Sophistie on December 25, 2005 at 5:28 PM | link to this | reply

Hemlocker...

Merry Christmas to you, too.

May you continue to be politically wrong in the coming year....

posted by Corbin_Dallas on December 25, 2005 at 5:25 PM | link to this | reply

That's exactly why you and I get such a chuckle out of.....................

People who proudly proclaim that the bile is the only book they know.

Thanks for you sentiments but you are slightly off the mark.

I proudly proclaim that there is great peace in my life. Even as I see a huge lie exposed in others, a really stupid concept that drives me is dashed on sharp rocks of truth.

There is very little conflict and only a rational concern, which intrudes into my happiness. I'm confident that I'll soon find a job and make a living. I'm very talented and enjoy working. Sometimes I am hard to get along with if I'm not treated right.

If someone wishes that I bring my considerable talents to my job I wish to be fairly compensated. Otherwise I'll allow them the choice of minimum wage candidates.

Other than the day today concerns of making a living I have no conflict and feel at peace with the world.

In my last post I called forth people to stand at the border again and had no takers. At one time that would have bothered me. I think that which I was called to do, call people. I'll leave it to a force mightier than me to touch people to go.

I've gained a hugely valuable insight or two, from doing this call over years. How hard it is to "move" people politically is one understanding, and the understanding of how we think as individuals are a couple of insights that have come to me.

I marvel at the powers of mental coersion necessary to motivate someone into strapping on an explosive belt. The marketing potential of the Imans compared to our captains of the marketplace is awesome.

Have another great trip around the fusion pit, I trust and believe in Orbital Mechanics.

posted by Bud-Oracle on December 25, 2005 at 4:12 PM | link to this | reply

A most excellent quote

Merry Christmas to you too Hemlocker

posted by Azur on December 25, 2005 at 3:56 PM | link to this | reply

mystic--

Thanks very much.  One of the translations of the end of one of the Duino Elegies of Rilke is:

"and we who had thought of happiness ascending,

  are mildly startled when happiness descends."

Have a wonderful New Year

posted by Hemlocker on December 25, 2005 at 12:18 PM | link to this | reply

Thank You Hem

...that is the way it happens huh?...when we arn't looking or noticing. Peace and good cheer, my friend

posted by MysticGmekeepr on December 25, 2005 at 12:03 PM | link to this | reply

kingmi--

Yes indeed.  Thank you.

posted by Hemlocker on December 25, 2005 at 11:29 AM | link to this | reply

Hemlocker, Merry Christmas! I love that quote, and the cardinal (female)!

posted by kingmi on December 25, 2005 at 11:18 AM | link to this | reply