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2012
14
Feb
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My husband and I were both nervous going to the doctor’s appointment yesterday. It would be our first ultrasound this pregnancy, and we hoped for good news. The thing that’s difficult about these visits is that we go to the same hospital where I delivered Liam. I had been down those halls many times, and [...]
2012
7
Feb
No one can tell you you’re in love. You just know it. Through and through. Balls to bones. A person who has not yet experienced love and asking for a description of love is more or less like the blind asking a sighted person to describe the color blue. The color blue can be defined [...]
2012
25
Jan
Pregnancy is marked by weeks and weeks of a slow, anxious and sometimes agonizing wait. It is often said that pregnancy lasts 9 months. Aside from the shortest months, each month contains about 4 and half weeks. The weeks of pregnancy are counted from the first date of last menstrual period (LMP), and the expectation [...]
2012
18
Jan
Last night I had a dream about our son who was born without a heartbeat last year on January 19. He had most likely left us some time between January 17 and 18, or a year ago last night. It was not a sad dream. In the dream, I saw and felt glowing in the [...]
2012
12
Jan
Olive, a bright young woman, commented on the tendency of privileged Westerners to romanticize poverty. I think this is likely because the struggle to survive can make people feel a lot more “fulfilled” than the struggle of waiting in traffic or dealing with your in-laws. Various “first-world problems” like your cell phone dying or getting [...]
2011
31
Dec
It is New Year’s Eve, a time for reflecting back on the year past, and to look forward to the future. When I was growing up, we had no tradition for New Year’s resolutions, so I didn’t start thinking about resolutions until my teenage years. I also didn’t keep track of them, because I would [...]
2011
26
Dec
I have always loved ideas and theories, new and old. Science aspires to uncover via observation, experimentation, and applying the scientific method in a systematic and logical fashion. When reading the Law of One and other texts of a similar nature, I mentally search for ways to connect the material back to scientific knowledge. For [...]
2011
21
Dec
“The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you’ve always known. Life — all life — is in the service of life. If you need something to worship, then worship life — all life, every last crawling [...]
2011
19
Dec
For the past few days I had been feeling off, my body acting strangely and my hormones out of wack. I had really hoped that these were good signs. But then I started bleeding last night, three days before my period was supposed to come. I think I am starting to get too obsessed, analyzing [...]
2011
7
Dec
The following are reposts of some comments. Maybe sex plays a role in civilizational decline. However, the Han and Tang dynasties in China didn’t die out because the lords and emperors didn’t have access to harems. They did, but according to history the palace eunuchs had helped play consorts and empress clans against each other, [...]