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DK Mok wrote:Danimorg62, I'm glad you're finding a system that works for you.

Regarding my avatar, when I first started getting published, I didn't have an author photo for my website or social media. The only picture I had that remotely summed up my personality was a stick figure I'd drawn as part of a webcomic, and now it's sort of become my online face. It was originally drawn to represent the ambivalence I felt at having graduated with a degree in psychology, but then my becoming a fantasy writer instead of a psychologist. The flower growing out of the figure's head alludes to lovely things growing from unexpected origins.

Also, it does look a lot like me. Just imagine a hat instead of the flower :)
Love that! "... lovely things growing from unexpected origins..." What a positive statement!

ps... maybe you should eat something; you're looking a little thin. (I was going to write, "Are you sure you're feeling okay? You look a little... drawn." tee hee
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Thanks, Danimorg62. I like to think that our experiences shape who we are, and that whichever path we end up taking, we can try to leave a positive impact on those around us.

And I am actually a bit on the scrawny side, but hopefully I don't look too sketchy :)
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this has been puzzling me, too, lately. When I listen to BBC internatonal I get one set of news items, when I tune into Radio France International, i get a totally different take on what is news. So which is important? I've been following closely the events in Ferguson, but why has there been no uproar about the 12 year old boy shot dead in US lately? And if i take an interest in affairs thousands of miles away, perhaps others would reciprocate. I get very upset about the Ebola crisis, about the people murdering in the name of Islam, but then, there are heroes as well. The nurses and doctors who risk their own lives for others, the Imams who speak out, etc. Sometimes i think i'm not going to listen any more. Just recently at our village we had a small baby dying of hydrocephalus. We asked for help, and one guy said he did not care whether the baby lived or died. It caused an uproar. I think watching the news does give you an opportunity to help if you want, even if in a small way.
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heledd wrote:this has been puzzling me, too, lately. When I listen to BBC internatonal I get one set of news items, when I tune into Radio France International, i get a totally different take on what is news. So which is important? I've been following closely the events in Ferguson, but why has there been no uproar about the 12 year old boy shot dead in US lately? And if i take an interest in affairs thousands of miles away, perhaps others would reciprocate. I get very upset about the Ebola crisis, about the people murdering in the name of Islam, but then, there are heroes as well. The nurses and doctors who risk their own lives for others, the Imams who speak out, etc. Sometimes i think i'm not going to listen any more. Just recently at our village we had a small baby dying of hydrocephalus. We asked for help, and one guy said he did not care whether the baby lived or died. It caused an uproar. I think watching the news does give you an opportunity to help if you want, even if in a small way.
heledd, it's a shame how insensitive a person is who wouldn't care whether the baby lived or died... that's just sad.

Yes, there are heroes everywhere. We don't hear as much about them but when we do it feels like a light in the darkness. We have not (yet) become numb.
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I think a lot of television news is scripted anymore, even down to the comments and jokes made by our local anchors. It's becoming increasingly hard to find accurate news on the internet as well. I wish we had the journalists of yesteryear (in the time before googled research). Those reporters didn't rely on half-truths, and sensationalism to guide their reporting constantly. Where are the great editors to cull this trash news that feeds fear and ignorance. I rarely listen to more than the weather anymore, as I don't like watching people having their lives destroyed by what amounts to gossip even when some are exonerated in courts.
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I am haunted by waters.”
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