The Healing Process

Idriss opened his mouth.With a resolute expression, he explained that there would be little time for socializing once we got on the island and absolutely no time for pleasantries. He suggested that we all introduce ourselves now to get it out of the way. His hand scraped across the edge of a granite counter for […]

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Travels in JDishia

I remember back in the day… wait – I’m not that old!But truly, when I was younger, I was always in imagination land. I created an entire world out of just the stuff around me, and my friends did the same. We were always in ice caves (playing ice N64, of course, with games crafted […]

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Memoirian Highlights: Part Two

So, we’re back. Perhaps this should be an episodic program, actually – like a television broadcast or the Picture Dictionary. Whenever it fits fancy, the Memoirian Highlights will flock over The Cowation like a plague of long-winded draft reading material. Who knows?Anyway, back to the action. Samedi, Saturday, le deuxieme jour. SamediSo, the night was […]

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Tangential

10 True Statements:I am challenging myself to stay calm.I must be obsessing over extreme crops and fabric shots.I watched The Daily Show interview with Jim Cramer – and got freaked out about our economy [again].I would like to make a collage, but I can only slave away over knit squares.I should never eat lunch right […]

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Part of My Self

Not a typo, I swear.I was just reading on GalaDarling again, and on the email updates from TUT’s Adventurers Club, and I am confused. Confusion seems to be the opportune mot; I am feeling as if a continental shift must occur.I… well. The first thing I need is to do my classic action: make a […]

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Mother

Mother Picture Dictionary is back! Mother was my word today – apparently the reason that it sounds so similar cross-culturally is because there are root words for it in many of the base languages (mat in Sanskrit and mater in Latin, etc.) according to Word Nerd. I had always wondered about that actually… not sure […]

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It’s Never Been Ok…

After the euphoria and experience of the show, coming back down to regular life seems dull and slow. Thrill-by-the-minute cannot, obviously, continue forever – but today just reminded me that there are so many days and weeks left in the school year. I definitely need to get moving again, but “moving” doesn’t look quite the […]

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Writeen

I remember Heathy and I trying to make a website one time… before www.thecowation.com became my personal project and after the JDishia site became a total failure [not entirely because my computer crashed and I lost all its data]. We were avid writers back then, and we tried to create a website for “teens” (though […]

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