…Dementia has gone, purged from inside. [Dead Can Dance - advent]

I’ve been sick since right before Thanksgiving. If you know me, you know that I get sick to my stomach quite a bit. For a while, I suffered from something known variously as “CVS” - Cyclical Vomiting Syndrome [syndrome because they don't know what causes [...]

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I’ve forgotten if I’ve mentioned that I’m participating in a “photo a day for a year” thingie for Twitter-people, and of course I’m too lazy to check previous entries when I really should be going to bed - as I’m supposed to meet Maya tomorrow in Raleigh for a fun day of seeing a [...]

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Sleeping sometimes brings deep insights. I should really put a disclaimer on this page:
PARDON OUR DUST
WORK IN PROGRESS
…maybe that should be a sign I wear around my neck, too. Ha!
Anyway, yeah. Hi! I’m Xiane, I’m a mess but I’m trying to be better, and I REALLY appreciate and am awed by the patience that you [...]

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I love sun-dappled streams that slink under foot bridges and empty into larger rivers.

The fungus among us. Little things too often pass us by, unnoticed. Of course, we’re the ones that pass IT by, right?

Girl. Cabin. Trees. Outdoors.
Want to see more? They’re stored here: Artist’s Dates @ Flickr

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At the coffee shop!
Originally uploaded by xiane threeravens

Helen mentioned through Twitter that when I tweet about being at the coffee shop, she now has a mental image for that, since she’s seen my usual haunts now. I figured it might be nice to clue everyone in to how I look when I hang out here, [...]

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Today was a fantastic day!
I’ve been hanging out with my pal Helen Mosher all weekend, as she’s in the area for a visit - and we decided that Saturday was obviously “go to Asheville and see the sights” day. I know I was just there last week with Melissa and Bo, but there’s never enough [...]

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Lyrics: The Police [synchronicity I]

No real reason to post this photo of a petunia [from an Artist's Date!] other than to give you something I found pretty, to start your day off with a potential smile.
One of the things that The Artist’s Way says I’m supposed to keep an eye out for is occurrences of [...]

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I rejected my first attempt at an Artist’s Date this week - a trip alone to Gastonia and to a craft store and a book store - because I felt that it wasn’t a sufficient date. Maybe that’s not the point, but I felt like I was cheating myself on the first date. So I [...]

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” A day once dawned from the ground
Then the night she fell
And the air was beautiful
The night she fell all around.
So look see the days
The endless coloured ways
And go play the game that you learnt
From the morning.”
Nick Drake [from the morning]
After a week of feeling rather under the weather, I awoke today with a smile [...]

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No music quote to start this off! How odd! However, I can share that my latent DJ brain has been working overtime, throwing together in the Big Mix In My Head a mashup between:
The Who [my generation]
Jet [are you gonna be my girl]
Iggy Pop [lust for life]
I haven’t actually tried any of these out together, [...]

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