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Had a lovely walk to the bookstore this afternoon, crystal clear spring day, with everything in bloom. You know that old saying that April showers bring May flowers? Apparently now it is March showers bring April flowers. Was so warm this week - the trees and plants decided it was May or June. Now watch - it will get really cold towards the end of April and everything will freeze.

Bought Changes at B&N for twenty-five percent off, which was still about ten to eleven dollars more than what I would have paid if it was delivered to the Kindle. Am reading the Rachel Morgan novel and am frustrated by the writing, which seems lacking somehow. Maybe I've been reading too much well - written fanfiction. It's a sad thing when unpublished fanfiction writers are writing better than the published ones. That's what the information age has done - it's given us too many choices. Too much content. To the point that we are almost overwhelmed by it. Also the media advertising machine is in overdrive - I can't get away from I-Pad ads, the news, the newspapers, the magazines, everything is telling me to buy the I-Pad. I don't want the I-PAD. I have enough info as is, I don't need more apps and things.

Watched some brilliant tv tonight.
( Being Erica, The Good Wife and In Plain Sight )

Collaborative Works of Art - Credit where Credit is due and other things...

Lovely lovey day today. 74 degrees. Walked from church to the promenade for a lunch of Icelandic Ginger and Orange yogurt, chocolat mousse, and an apple - (yes, I'm wildly eccentric or so I'm told. Sisinlaw said this to Momster, who laughing replied the whole family is eccentric. I find her comment a bit amusing - considering Sis-in-law named her kid after at tree and an elephant and a butterfly, got married in a swimming pool by a minister of the church of craft and bought the equivalent of a tree house to live in...plus owns two Siberian show cats that are the same size as a full grown racoon. I'm guessing they scare most dogs. Eccentric is in the eye of the beholder.)

Church brought up some interesting bits..and in a wonderful way allowed me to make peace with the sturm and drang of my week. There was this lovely song about how Love leads the Way, if you can't sing like angels, or speak in front of thousands, then give with all your heart and love as best you can. I found myself thinking about love today. It is not a selfish emotion. True love isn't. It's actually the opposite. It is about caring more about someone else. Caring about their needs. Wanting what is best for them. Putting them first. And you can't love someone until you love yourself and actually have something to give. If you are an empty well and it is all about your needs, your wants, your desires, than that is not love. Love is when people go down to Haiti and attempt to save the children. Love is what makes life worth living. It is what gives life importance and meaning. Without love? There is nothing. Hell for me is the absence of love.

Regarding the Buffy comics and my current attitude towards them - there's professional review on Comic Book Resources that sums it up rather nicely: http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=user_review&id=2093.

There's also this rather insightful post/meta on Whedon's writings after Buffy, which re-affirmed something I've been thinking about for quite some time now...and hits on a topic that I discussed with friends today after church. ( about collaboration )