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Apr. 18th, 2008 @ 06:58 am kids, stay in school
I will write more about that other thing before I write much about anything else, but I'm working on my grad school applications and today is ivy's third birthday (!) so you will have to wait for next week. I find writing about drugs to be very difficult compared to most anything else, because I have so much to say and I know I'm up against many deeply held prejudices, so I have to say it exactly as I mean it on the first swing. I've started several times before and have only half-written unpublished expositions to show for it.

Here are ivy and her friend brynn sampling the birthday cupcakes.

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From:[info]facet_squared
Date: April 18th, 2008 02:48 pm (UTC)
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that's a really funny picture.

i needed that, thanks.
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From:[info]normalcyispasse
Date: April 18th, 2008 03:59 pm (UTC)
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Wow, she's grown so much. Has it really been three years?
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From:[info]d_c_m
Date: April 18th, 2008 05:33 pm (UTC)
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Oh that is very very cute!
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From:[info]allknight
Date: April 18th, 2008 05:47 pm (UTC)
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Wow what a fun fair these two are Paul. Must be great watching your daughter grow up. I am looking forward to your comments on the topic of drugs and grad school...
From:[info]count_de_monet
Date: April 20th, 2008 07:19 am (UTC)
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Seeing your two little "blueberries" brought a smile to my face and a sense of playfulness.

I enjoy peeking into a kids world for a second, everything else in the world just kind of drops away automatically.

Everything relaxed, just joy.
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From:[info]extempore
Date: April 20th, 2008 02:45 pm (UTC)
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Everything relaxed, just joy.

Not always quite so relaxed, but always uncomplicated - and I mean that in the best possible way. Unnecessary overcomplication is a great plague on the adults of our species, and most of us can learn a lot from small children.
From:[info]count_de_monet
Date: April 21st, 2008 09:16 am (UTC)
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Children just do, be, have the experience and learn from it. Adults bring all their previous garbage along for the trip. Way different perception of what the actual experience is. One just pretty much has it and learns what it is, the other judges and sorts it as it's happening against and with whatever prior associations their mind has either fortunately or unfortunately developed. Through the cloud of automatic unconscious responses that come with that.

Just about everyone has way less control than they think, the programs run unseen...unless you choose to take the time to. They have to, it simplifies and brings order, it's a necessary part of our survival. We can't be experiencing things anew every time we come across them, lol. Sometimes they're unproductive or not as productive as they could be and should and can be adjusted. Becoming aware of what they're comprised of allows for the opportunity to choose, be, something different the next time. Re-order it, introduce new resources. That's why children play so much, to sort through and try out different ways and perspectives to find out which one works best for them. They then make their own associations and develop a certain foundation to build the next level on.

Most adults have forgotten how to do that. If someone wants to change something they should be increasing awareness and making the distinctions within, what exactly are their perceptions and responses comprised of. Experiencing it with the freshness of a child's eyes and finding out what exactly is there and also what could be there if they wanted it to be and they played with it a little.

It's a trip well worth taking. The discovering and unraveling take some pretty cool, sometimes strange but fun once you begin to realize what to do with them turns. The adjustments, results and enjoyment that come from them are deeply rewarding.
From:[info]the_groove_
Date: April 21st, 2008 05:49 pm (UTC)
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uncomplicated now. Wait until they start turning from children into women. It definitely get tougher. Still great but not the unbridled perfectness that is a 3 year old. My oldest daughter is seven and I am already getting glimpses into what having a teenage daughter is going to be like.
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From:[info]bbrown0707
Date: April 23rd, 2008 03:33 am (UTC)

Hopefully not following one.

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Ivy seems to be setting a trend.

jessica simpson.
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From:[info]extempore
Date: April 23rd, 2008 06:14 pm (UTC)

Re: Hopefully not following one.

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So that's what ivy meant when she said "Look daddy, I'm just like jessica!"
From:[info]inet_stranger
Date: April 23rd, 2008 10:52 pm (UTC)

well, if it's boys your now after..

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overblown cooked breakfasts the order of the day?

http://journals.royalsociety.org/content/w260687441pp64w5/
From:[info]inet_stranger
Date: April 23rd, 2008 10:53 pm (UTC)

well, if it's boys you're now after..

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overblown cooked breakfasts the order of the day?

http://journals.royalsociety.org/content/w260687441pp64w5/
From:[info]anna_paradox
Date: May 3rd, 2008 03:12 pm (UTC)

Maybe an indirect approach?

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Since I'm beginning to miss hearing you, I thought I'd offer a possible strategy. Maybe you could approach the drug discussion by commenting on other people's writing on subject. Like, how do you feel about Robert Anton Wilson's Sex and Drugs? Terence McKenna's Food of the Gods? From Chocolate to Morphine by Winifred Rosen and Andrew Weil? Turn on, Tune in, Drop out or other titles by Timothy Leary?

Looking forward to hearing from you again.

All the best to you,
Anna