To the end that is near
what people have feared
an inevitable path to a life
that can't be denied

A true moment in time
when tears must be shed
to remember the day
what you really should have said

You should have been there
to say what you felt
a time in your life
the worst had been dealt

You can't change the past
what's been lost can't be changed
what to do is to live
a new goal to attain

A competitive month for all of my Top Entrecard droppers. We had 3 ties this month, so congratulations on making it to the top and continuing to read Friends Revolution.

I just recently ran into an old classmate at an ad hoc high school reunion. He’d moved from the area, and mentioned that he was getting more into mountain biking, but isn’t sure where to ride in Arizona. Naturally, I promised him some tips … and then I thought, “hey, maybe some other people besides Mitch would dig some advice!”

So here are 5 places in the metro Phoenix area where you can ride. Each will offer something different. These are in no particular order. I’ve linked each to my buddy at MTBikeAZ.com, who has produced some fine maps and profiles! 5 great places to ride a mountain bike

Compliments of my friend Wandering Justin from the Arizona Trails

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Urges of a young woman, acted upon in a moment of extreme clarity.

The brain is empty
like a drained sea of angels
longing to find the words
to express feelings within

The gaze is piercing

like a hot sphere of lava

the longing is insurmountable

to touch the heart of the forbidden

From afar it's a struggle

for the soul a constant turmoil

in the dark we will surrender

to the passion that streaks the eyes

and floods our limp bodies.

They call it the "place where ghosts don't jump", the location where many sea-vessels met their demise, hitting the inner banks of rigid rock formations. It was the steepest theater in the World, causing theater guests to hold on to their seats instead of each other. Read more about Archeological Finds in Turkey

Written by Lauren Axelrod

A fresh fruit with graham cracker and cream cheese dessert. There will be no left overs with this dessert.

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Trash Bag Bikini Slip and Slide and Sexy Videos"My second slide sent me down the entire slide all the way up to the Sysco truck that was starting to pull up. How embarrassing for me but, how sexy for the Sysco driver. He, He"

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A second trip around the globe to some of the many resorts you may have never heard of. Relax, sit back, and grab a cup of coffee while you follow me, your travel guide, around the world.

Written by Lauren Axelrod

The Uros people of Lake Titicaca have a unique way of life - they build their own islands, float them on the lake and then proceed to live on them. Here is a glimpse of their world, where their home made "islands" are truly "in the stream".

Floating islands? It may sound like something out of a Jonathan Swift novel, but to the Uros people it is a fact of every day life. This small tribe of South American indigents retain a great deal of a culture that goes back millennia and one whose unique domestic arrangements stem from that age old fear - the dread of suppression by other, stronger and more populous peoples.
Lake Titicaca itself affords a deal of protection. Continued

Written by RJ Evans

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A secret that lies in the deep abyss.

There is a path that leads
into a deep trench that holds
a piece of eternal life where
sea creatures speak and oceans
give advice

In the darkest abyss
where self never roams
but secrets give birth to
understanding of what was
and what has become

This life, this day is a
bleak existence, but then
it was turmoil fighting against
truth for the justice of what
was right, is being found
in the darkest places where ghosts
don't speak,but breath history

Written by Lauren Axelrod

You know your life has meant something or you have affected people in some sort of small way to receive a standing ovation in English class.

The discussion went something like this:

My professor asked if anyone would make the first introductions and of course, no one volunteered, except for the overly annoying child like student dressed in baggy pants, messy hair, and an overuse of the term "word ". Very eloquent~!

Some more students proceeded to tell their stories and dive into their reasoning as to why they were there. When it came to me, and I think all of you know I am not at all ashamed a bit of which path I have traveled, I said " I love the Giants and the Colts, of course since I love the Mannings. I owned 2 restaurants and recently sold them in order to go back and obtain my Doctorate in Archeology." After I did this, I received a standing ovation, and you can't even imagine how amazing that feels when it comes directly from your peers.

In my eyes, and I say this all the time, "live is to short to live the same day twice." When I set out to accomplish something and it actually happens, nothing else can really top it.

I think the fact that I'm older and wiser now helps me adjust to a new course of study. It's really quite amazing and terrifying at the same time.

Written by Lauren Axelrod

Any type of medication is hard on your body and may do damage to organs, so why not protect your body and treat your symptoms with natural cures and remediesHere are some natural cures for headaches.In today's society medication and pain relief pills are pushed onto people to take for whatever symptoms they are experiencing. With the constant drug use, people build immunity to medication and so when they really need it, it's not going to help and they'll have to take higher drug dose than they would have initially needed. Any type of medication is hard on your body and may do damage to organs, so why not protect your body and treat your symptoms with natural cures/remedies? Here are some natural cures for headaches. Five Natural Cures for Headaches Continued

Written by Holly Sendy

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They are bizarre, strange, and deadly animals and we will never fully understand them. However, according to conservationists and scientists, these species can get a bad rap for the wrong reasons.

In studies of Science, Zoology, and Marine Biology these species are given new light. Their aggression and actions are based upon environment and predatory beings that are endangering their life spans. These particular species do not kill without ill will, they fight when their domain is threatened. Read More

Written by Lauren Axelrod

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Well, the vacation is over and I am on my way tomorrow to continue what I started. After some deep reflection, I was thrilled to be able to experience the college experience again. The lugging of heavy bags filled with hardback books, walking miles around the campus trying to find my next class which was the door 10 paces back that I missed. It's all so surreal to me especially when I am sitting next to an 18 year old in one of my classes and all that concerns them is where the next party is and I'm thinking I can't wait to put some sweats on and take a nap. Yes, the beginning of old age. I kid, I kid I'm only 31.

I wanted to leave everyone with one of my favorite poems that I wrote yet, it still reflects the next passing days and my journey of everlasting educational bliss.

Mystery of Life's Intuition

A squandered moment in silence
an obstruction that failed to ignore
a changing of minds little process
a flow like the smoothness of the pour

A break in the organized outline
a confusion that left us perplexed
a mystery of life's intuition
a muscle that should have been flexed

It should have been smooth as silk
a direction of change should be easy
the people that want you to fail
in a world that's usually appeasing

You've made it your purpose in life
to move on and obtain what's presented
a gift of success in the masses
to give up your modern defenses

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Carl Bernstein's coverage of Hillary Clinton's life primarily focuses in the 1990s when she became exposed as a rather complex woman in the political arena - a leader and brilliant lawyer in her own right, at the same time the wife of the US president. The account of the former first lady also reveals the challenges behind her life, and so too, as a woman with a strong opinion.

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Bernstein based the book from over two hundred interviews of those who know Hillary Clinton, both colleagues and enemies, along with materials written about her and by her. Continued

Written by Tel Asiado

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Education in social studies always brought out the benefits of competition. The facts seemed to support that companies that had others vying for customers was healthy all around.

We now see fewer airlines, so the prices are higher for most flights than we would like to pay. Those bankrupt aircraft companies tried many methods before succumbing to the ill fated demise of travel options for the public. When the straw that broke the camels back arrived, the airlines ended the service they rendered.

Each of the companies such as Levi Strauss, and many others too numerous to list, saw the writing on the wall, they stopped selling in this country. Little by little some of the biggest named stores are closing their doors and calling it an end to business as usual. Furniture stores to car makers, even food suppliers have gone else where to call home. Is There a Monopoly in the Making? Continued

Written by Goodselftime

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People have long been concerned about the overflow of illegal immigrants into the United States. It is a matter of record that our borders lack sufficient protection to keep immigrants from entering our country. The government is spending millions in tax payer dollars to care for people who have entered the borders illegally and millions more to hold them while they await being returned to there native countries. The latest thinking is that the building of a wall to contain the emigrant population will protect our border, again costing the tax payers of this country millions of dollars. I am concerned that the government isn't thinking of the consequences of their actions in terms of tax payer dollars.

The people of this country need to intervene with ideas that will lead to policies that solve this problem. Having said that allow me to present a broader more simple view of why I feel emigrants are here. Many are working to support their families Continued

Guest piece Written by Sharona

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I was so thrilled to receive a triple award from my girl Madelyn from My Life's Journey. It has been a real challenge trying to make a go of Friends Revolution. We are finally finding our bearings and we are now trying to promote and support all the writers that contribute here at the Revolution.


Here are the rules for the recipients:
1. Put the logo on your blog or post.
2. Nominate at least 10 blogs which show great Attitude and/or Gratitude!
3. Be sure to link to your nominees within your post.
4. Let them know that they have received this award by commenting on their blog.
5. Share the love and link to this post and to the person from whom you received your award.

Time for me to pass this on to my sweet, good, best, sisters, caring, you name them - ITS YOU:), YES YOU:

• Glynis at Scribbles by Glynis
• Michele at Spectrum
• Christy at Creativity in writing
• Lanne at Crocodile Soup
• Julie at Designs by Julie
• Arizona at Say What?
• Single Teenager at Un-secret Diary
• Michelle at Michelle Megan Photography
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• Icy at Wave Weaver

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I had just started to plan where my next vacation would take place and I was torn with the amount of ideas my family was throwing at me. I already live in Florida so many people would think I’m on vacation already but, ever since I went to Chicago to visit my sister, I wanted to plan another trip back and started looking for Chicago Theatre Tickets and a hotel.

As I started to plan my agenda, I figured why not throw in a trip to a baseball game by looking for Citi Field Tickets, since my last visit was spent watching the White Sox in my pin stripe hat that I still have hanging in my closet.

Now since I was going to be visiting my sister who has an adorable 6 year old daughter that takes circus lessons and already knows how to swing on the trapeze, I figured we would also plan to purchase Ringling Brothers Circus Tickets, since I hadn’t gone to the Circus in years and was missing the excitement.

The trip would not be complete without a stop at the Big Bowl restaurant and of course every coffeehouse in town. I remember I dragged my sister out in the middle of the night to hit a coffee shop. Why you ask? It’s Chicago and all things are possible in the Windy City.

Written by Lauren Axelrod

Military men and women (excluding revolutionaries and terrorists) should be treated with dignity and respect as they are authorized by the government to defend their country or to attack other countries perceived to be threats. Although there were some in the military who did not uphold to the duty and honor of being a soldier, we must not judge the entire army based on the actions of a few. Here are some notable scandals that involved the military.

Numerous accounts of Iraqi prison abuse scandals began emerging just a few months following the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, the best known of which took place at the Continued

Written by Eddiego65

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A cool mist floated low over the turquoise blue water below the waterfall. Athlon and his wife had been coming here on this day every year since they met.

This is where they had first seen each other and fallen madly in love. Today was Athlon’s birthday and they were still as much in love as the day they met. They planned to have a relaxing picnic by the waters edge, well, as relaxing as anything can be when you are King and Queen. This was the one time of the year that they could get away from it all for a little while. Even their guard stayed back a ways to give them space. Continued

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This is a tribute to stars we no longer see but their voices will never die. They may have sang for years with many hits, or as in the case of Richie Valens, just starting out on their career. Whatever their life map was, they remain with us in the form of music. They may have died the same way but they were all very different in the way they entertained us.

Take time to sit back and enjoy, I could have filled the page with facts and figures but their music would have outshined all research.

Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and The Big Bopper

They were killed 50 years ago on February 3rd 1959. They were taken by the skies but their music lives on. Continued

Written by Glynis Smy

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Choosing a wedding dress is one of the most important decisions a bride will make. Before the flowers or bridesmaids dresses can be chosen, the bride first has to decide on her own dress. However, selecting a wedding dress is also the hardest choice to make in some cases, especially considering the wide range of colorful options available to modern brides. Although the headlines may read “Red is the New White,” your family and friends may not agree. If you aren’t sure that stark white is your color, there are many things to consider when making your choice.

Many cultures actually prefer a bright and colorful wedding dress. In some cultures, red is a sign of happiness or prosperity, Continued

Guest piece by Dorthy Wilden

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Hey kids, another day of updating and when the domain change finally took place today, I lost widgets, links, and some other things.

If you notice that your link isn't on here let me know and I'll get it back on. I think I have everyone back but, if I don't leave me a message on comments.

There is nothing random about the formation of sand dunes; amazingly they are quite consistent in their configuration of patterns. Depending on the nearby vegetation, the directions of the wind, and the amounts of sand available are the deciding factors in which a sand dune will form.

The highest sand dunes in the world are located in Africa in the Namib Desert where they reach heights of over 1200 feet high. The largest sand dunes in N. America are surprisingly found in Colorado in the Great Sand Dunes National Park where they are known to reach heights of 700 feet. Continued

Written by Lauren Axelrod

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Adultery has become so commonplace in society today that it is rare to hear of a marriage lasting for many years. Why do people commit adultery? Why do they get married if they do not want this person to be their partner for the rest of their lives? Everyone seems to assume that when they hear of someone having an extramarital affair that there are problems in the marriage. This is not the case as affairs occur in just as many good marriages as bad ones. In fact the spouse may never even know that the husband or wife is cheating and think that everything is fine Continued

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That period again, the yuletide! Periods to retro twist your mind. Sober reflections, oh I must mention… the highs and lows, success… sorrows. I made the best of my Christmas day… an opportunity, I reckon, to sleep… or play.
Then came, the call… time for the mall. Great fun for all… was thrilled for sure.

I lodged in a grand hotel in style, to cap the daylong freaky miles. Time for some snacks and drinks; unwind… straight to the pool I went… reclined. Now alone, mind-boggling zone, my head tries retro-life bemoan. I fight it off with tricks I mustered, more drinks, more drinks… Oh what a cluster. Continued

Guest article by Fred Omorogbe

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It isn't always easy to express love through spoken words. Most writers will reach for their pen or quill and sit by candlelight to feel inspired by a certain someone. Others, will travel to their favorite resting place and be moved by the moment.

For me, most of my poetic expressions of love come from dreams that occur after visions during the daylight. I may have been imagining myself in a certain place or with a certain someone that I am deeply in love with or would like to be.

One of my recent visions of love was a bit to real so I am sharing it with you by way of the pen.

A Heart That Beats for a Dream

I am seeking something that is not
within my grasps; nor does it present itself

in the dawn of the day but, in the darkness
of closed eyelids.

A longing for a soul engulfed heart
a passion that only exists in the dreams
of enraptured lovers and fairy tales of
lost loves.

For this day there is a vision, a question
of what will be when the path has
ended and the direction has led to
the dirt in the desert.

The love this soul will seek may be
found in the hole of ancient history
a blood boiling love that stretch’s the sea
that shall remain until the heart beats no more.

Written by Lauren Axelrod (published on Triond)

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Announcement, Announcement!

The Blog is officially changing to www.friendsrevolution.com. In the mean time, when you type in the old address, you will be redirected to the current one.

No worries. It will all be worked out in about 3 days!

The wondrous world of a Friday night fight with Google Page rank. Has anyone on the internet super-highway ever figured this out, really?

I recently had the pleasure of running into a friend that had went from a higher page rank to a rating of 1 in a matter of days. They proceeded to set up a new blog entirely to avoid the headache of remedying the situation by going back to older posts and pages and making them Googlebot friendly.

It's a difficult task, I assure you if you have never done this on your own or have no experience doing it at all.

I have noticed that simple things that can be changed in order to crawl the ranks once again. This is a personal lists and I hope you find it helpful. I am by no means an expert since my expertise lies in restaurant ownership and cooking but, this is a sort of Pagerank for Dummies approach.

• Put heading tags on your pictures. Google loves these.

• Use keywords in the first 100 characters of a post.
  
  
• When you continue a story to another url, don't just say "read more" or "continued". Example...Why I love Google continued.
  
  
• Grab up some backlinks. The more you have the better your rank.
  
  
• Find blogs that allow comments and follow tags. If you can leave a comment that is actually helpful to the reader, the site owner will leave your link and comment alone.
  

• Use a variation of your keyword. Google is intelligent. If you stuff your keyword everywhere, chances are the entire page will be dropped. i.e. Italy travel, travel to Italy, traveling to Italy. Get it?

• Finding pages that produce a 404 message can easily be deleted by going to the Webmaster page for Google. It usually takes 3-5 days , but ultimately it is helpful in the long run.
  
  
• Are you getting an error message in Webmaster for duplicate pages? This simply means, and I found this out personally, that the results for your pages are showing up in this format http://www or http://. Google see's 2 different pages of the site yet, they are identical. What you need to do is go into your Google webmaster account and put a preference for the domain. If you didn't previously, this is why it's happening.
  
  
• If you get a message "URL restricted by robots.txt me", it simply means that in your meta tags it states that you are restricting that certain page by a no index tag.
  
  
• When in doubt, go back to your posts and check the links to make sure they are pertinent to the posts, they are unbroken, and the url for that particular post is simplified. Meaning they would rather see a url like this http://www.google.com/high-heel-shoes.html rather than http://google.com/10-reasons-I-Like-high-heel shoes1515451578.html. Get the picture?

That was my last and final edition of Pagerank for Dummies. Stay tuned for more posts on a more enlightening, educational, and entertaining nature.

Believe it or not, my goal is to turn the Revolution into a magazine with field writers and researchers. I want to include all points of interest like Travel, Science, Music, Cultures, History, Archeology, ans so much more.

When I initially started my blog Friends Revolution, I was there primarily to promote my own articles since I wasn’t receiving as much exposure to certain communities as much as I would have liked.

I tweaked the platform a bit and I now have a site that is so far from a niche site that it makes the Google Spiders crazy.

It was my hope to gain more views but, during my bumpy travels I started taking submissions for articles from Triond writers and displaying their byline and a link to their complete article. Now, that’s really the basis of Friends Revolution is to push people to be great and to share a slew of articles that focus on all topics from cerebral to satire.

Standing Out Amongst the Crowd

Words that set yourself on paper
through scribbles and constant

coffee breaks leave the mind
perplexed to wonder what will they
read?

Hours spent on content that leaps
off the page yet, lacking of outward

folly presented for those that seek knowledge
not for the dense minds of younger days.

What’s in store for Friends Revolution

Believe it or not, my goal is to turn the Revolution into a magazine with field writers and researchers. I want to include all points of interest like Travel, Science, Music, Cultures, History, Archeology, etc.

If you’d like a taste of the topicology check out my Squidoo lens and you’ll see which direction I am going in particular, if you’re interested that is.

Sequenced by Design: Intelligent Design - Science, Theory and Evolution

Supporters of Intelligent Design, a theory that seeks to combine God with science in respect to the origin of life and the universe, have never asked for much - save for having the opportunity to teach intelligent design as an alternative to the theory of evolution. Unfortunately, teaching anything in biology class while mentioning the word “God” is a difficult task with ever growing liberal views in government. The argument that religion is not science has held strong, as has the opposition to at offering anything relating to the creation theory - even at Christian schools who Teaching Intelligent Design Continued

Guest Piece by Joe Hayes

Thanks for the tag Sistah Madelyn Basalo-Sells.

As promised, I am posting the 6th picture in my 6th folder in my pictures on my computer. This picture in particular was from an article I wrote about the overuse of cell phones. I found this picture utterly ridiculous considering it's a monk using a cell phone. Full Story Here

Here are the rules:

1. Go to your Picture Folder on your computer or wherever you store your pictures.
2. Go to the 6th Folder and then pick the 6th Picture.
3. Post it on your blog and tell the story that goes with the picture.
4. Tag other glorious people to do the same thing and leave a comment on their blog telling them about it.

West Penwith, also known as Land's End, is a tiny tip of land that forms the southwestern extremity of England. It is a living demonstration of our geomantic heritage coming from the balances of the forces of the Earth, the movement of the heavens, and the silent shimmer of human consciousness.

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This unique balance is demonstrated in two ways. West Penwith is certainly in line for the distinction of being on the World Heritage List and it is also the site of many ongoing research projects involving the ancient sites and megalithic stones in the area.

Astronomy

At the turn of the twentieth century, Sir Norman Lockyer chose the megaliths of West Penwith as one of his study areas while developing his work Continued....

Written by Bren Parks

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Four hundred years ago, Galileo was the first person to view the night sky and this was where modern astronomy was born. With the United Nations declaring 2009 as the International Year of Astronomy, take a look at these awesome interactive and animated websites to give you a little night sky delight.

Thanks to some clever flash animation we can see the solar system in motion on this site. Not only that, we can click on each individual planet and watch the track of its own satellites. If you get through all of that, then you can fly out of our solar system and have a look at a few that have been discovered by astronomers. Animated and Interactive Astronomy Websites Continued

Written by RJ Evans

I do not go a week without the media putting out a report or hearing somebody say that video games are a waste of time and that there is very little value in spending time playing them.I can personally say that video games have been hugely beneficial to both my social and professional life. I have learned first-hand many of life’s lessons from video games and I constantly draw upon my experience as a gamer to be successful in any goal or challenge that I face. Here are some of the life lessons that I have learned from playing video games.

Playing video games has taught me…

1: …to set goals and overcome challenges.
Video games taught me to set goals. On the surface, the goals in most video games are clearly defined and easy to understand. When I first started playing video games, Continued

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It's great to be a kid again with these hilarious and outrageous videos. Takes me back to a day I wore a Garbage Bag as a bathing suit to slide down the slip and slide in the back of my restaurant.

Last summer in Florida, it was ridiculously hot. I actually wondered why I still live here. I was cooking in the restaurant during the summer and it was about 95 degrees in the kitchen.

I had sweat running down my back, I had already drank over 8 glasses of water, and I was ready to pass out from heat exhaustion. My employees and I decided to construct a slip and slide out of restaurant grade trash bags in the back of the restaurant on the grass into a kiddie pool.

It was the middle of the day so we figured there wouldn't be to many customers coming in so we started our plan. We pieced together all the trash bags into a winding slip and slide through the parking lot. Story Continued with Videos

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Trying to have a grand affair for a wedding on a very tight budget can be hard, but it can be done. Many people have huge aspirations for their big day, but when it comes to the bottom line, you may have to make some concessions. However, it is possible to have a beautiful wedding on a budget if you know the inside tips and tricks.

One of the best things you can do to lower your flower budget is to buy locally. If you you’re your flowers shipped in, you’ll wind up spending hundreds more – especially if you buy out of season. Your favorite Read More

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When a person becomes terminal, they should have the right to embrace a peaceful death.

When I watched my mother slowly die from a painful struggle with cancer, I vowed that I would never allow myself to follow in the same path. Her journey was fraught with pain that was never ending, and it seemed as if the cancer would never let her go. The pain medication that was given to her in order to “manage” her hardship only seemed to mask her ordeal. She was given three months. Three months turned into little more than a year.

When I told my husband my decision to end my life when it came to a point that I could no longer be able to care for myself, he told me I was a defeatist. How dare I give up on him and the family. After all, it wasn't my life I had to think about, and Read More about Euthanasia: The Right to Die

Written by Lost in Arizona

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I had the pleasure of stumbling upon Darren Goad on Triond a few months ago and I am so glad I did. When I initially read a section from his series "The Village", I was engulfed and enthralled with his genius and innovative style.

Wickshaw High Street ( an excerpt from the Village series)

The Village coming to life.

The High Street was the only thoroughfare
that could actually be called a "Street".
Any other mode of traveling
from one place to another
was just a lane or way or road
or mews or passage or court or close.

But Street held that special connotation
that it was something particularly more. More

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"I'm rather a 'Jack-of-all-Trades'​. My passion lies in theatre – performing, directing, writing and designing. I also teach at a physical theatre school in London. Writing poetry is like melodrama - When normal language will not sufice, something higher must take it's place."