Words of Wisdom

The Invitation
By Oriah Mountain Dreamer
(A Native American Elder)

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting in your heart's longing.

It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain.

I want to know if you can sit in pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own,if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tip of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, or to remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn't interest me if the story you're telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul.

I want to know if you can be faithful and therefore be trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see beauty even when it is not pretty every day, and if you can source your life from God's presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of a lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, "Yes!"

It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have.

I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done for the children.

It doesn't interest me who you are, how you came to be here.

I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.

It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied.

I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone with yourself, and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.

Aspie Quiz

My results:

Stable version, release 2.2 (2007-08-14)
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Your Aspie AS score: 162 of 200
Your neurotypical NT (non-autistic) score: 33 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie
(note: I have tested as high as 189 out of 200 on similar tests)

"Cure Ignorance project from

Aspergian Pride

: No reasonable person in today’s society would suggest that racial minorities ought to be cured of their skin color or their hair texture. And yet, when the genetic traits of a minority group include a neurological configuration that differs from the majority population to any noticeable extent, society’s tolerance for diversity goes out the window. The Internet and the mass media are filled with profoundly negative and inaccurate stereotypes about the Aspergian population.
To ensure that others will respect and value our diversity, instead of calling for our extermination by way of prenatal testing and eugenic abortion, we must refute these stereotypes. "

For additional links about Asperger's/Autism Spectrum check this page out:

PASSING FOR NEUROTYPICAL

Or these ones:

Lots more info

even more info

A quote from Jared of crazymeds.org that I like, " There isn't an NT inside of us waiting to get out, there's just a pretend NT painted on top of us so the child
abuse would just stop."

The image is from Postsecret.com

One of the most annoying webpages ever

Click the title and you will see for yourself! By annoying I don't mean the content, which is fine. I mean the graphics on the page itself. As you scroll down the page you can see:
2 Flying Flags
2 Reader boards with 2 moving stars ~Large & Small
3 Flashing borders
1 pop-up box suggesting proper viewing size for this page
3 Flying Birds
1 Dancing Spinning Nun
2 trees morphing through seasonal changes in color with attached reader board
and last but not least
A sparkling diamond rose

I am almost positive that most of these things, if not all of them have nothing to do with the content of the page itself, which is actually a Russian Steam Bath. I have no idea what a Russian Steam Bath is though because I never made it past the awful graphics.

March 1, 2004

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Mingle² -

Chicago 4 the weekend

Some of the Chicago photos are up...

now THIS is a car!

The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 is currently the fastest, most powerful, and most expensive street-legal full production car in the world, with a proven top speed of 407.5 km/h (253 mph), though several faster or more expensive vehicles have been produced on a limited basis.
Vehicle type: mid-engine, all-wheel-drive, 2-passenger, 2-door coupe
Base Price: € 1,127,210 (£757 359, $1,440,800)
Engine type: quad-turbocharged and intercooled DOHC 64-valve W-16, aluminium block and heads, direct fuel injection
Displacement: 7993 cm³ (488.8 in³)
Performance Ratings as Tested :
Zero to 60 mph (97 km/h): 2.5 s
Zero to 100 mph (161 km/h): 5.5 s
Zero to 150 mph (241 km/h): 9.8 s
Zero to 200 mph (322 km/h): 19.5 s
Zero to 250 mph (402 km/h): 55 s [5][6]
Zero to 100 km/h: 2.5 s [7]
Zero to 200 km/h: 7.4 s [8]
Zero to 300 km/h: 18.2 s [9]
Zero to 400 km/h: 55 s [10][11]
Top speed (Handling Mode): 233 mph (375 km/h)
Top speed (Electronically Limited): 253.2 mph (407.5 km/h)[12]
Theoretical Top Speed (Drag Limited): 257 mph (414 km/h) [13]

0-100-0mph / 0-160-0km/h: 9.9 s [14]
Standing Quarter-Mile / 402 Meter: 10.2 sec @ 143 mph / 230 km/h [15]
Fuel economy[16]:

EPA city driving: 7 mpg U.S. (34 L/100 km)
EPA highway driving: 10 mpg U.S. (24 L/100 km)
Maintenance will be possible at Bentley dealerships, but repair service will require a flown-in mechanic, whom the company promises will be available 24 hours a day.

(I wonder how much the mechanic costs?!)

This is so true!

“If feelings were food, adult feelings would be things like chocolate-covered steak, mashed potatoes with pineapple bits, Special K with chili powder sprinkled on it instead of sugar. Like some weird déjà vu, came that recurring sense of adulthood’s strange contradictions: a world where you could order blackberry meatloaf or eggs fried in lemon-juice” - Stephen King, Gerald’s Game

Yes this is a repost but I'm having a twilight zone, deja vu sort of week :)