Archive for the 'dreams' Category

Nov 23 2008

An inspirational shampoo commercial:

Published by jrittenhouse under adoption, advertising, asia, beautiful, children, cool, dreams, music, timeless, video, youtube

No, really.  This is.  A web friend who adopted a young girl from China who is deaf (but has cochlear implants) posted this on her blog, and it took my breath away.    It’s the story of a deaf girl who wants to learn how to play the violin…watch it.  it is about four minutes long, [...]

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Jul 03 2008

Projects: overview

Published by jrittenhouse under AH, Eisenhower, FTL, Goldwater, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Suez_crisis, UK, X-craft, africa, animals, anthropology, astronomy, australia, austria-hungary, biofuels, brazil, canada, caves, china, climate, coal, computers, dinosaurs, dogs, dreams, dutch, environment, exclave_enclaves, france, gardening, gates, geography, geology, global_warming, goo_goos, great_auk, india, library, linguistics, linux, mammals_old, maps, marmots, masstransit, mongols, mysteries, nearstar, paleobiology, paleoclimatology, paleogeography, paleontology, pandemic, personal, pollution, prehistory, radio, religion, science_fiction, spaceflight, sudden_impact, television, thoughtful, trains, water, wind_energy, writing_projects

At various times, I get into research projects; some simmer on for decades in various forms, and some break off and pick up speed because I happen to run into something that really fuels the fire, so to speak.
My library here is largely one that I use for reference. I have a huge amount [...]

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Jun 16 2008

Father’s Day means:

Published by jrittenhouse under children, dreams, meredith, parenting, weird

When your 8 1/2 year old sneaks into bed with Mommy and Daddy and wakes you up at 1:30 in the morning by stretching our her arm and sticking her sharp fingers into your ear like she’s trying to dig the earwax out, you do NOT immediately strangle her or break her arm.  You reach [...]

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Mar 03 2006

The Weird Dream Channel:

Published by jrittenhouse under dreams, illinois, ohio, sex, weird

The drugs that have been controlling my itchies (which I’ve stopped taking) gave me some wowzer dreams.
In my dreams, I often reuse *places* - places that are similar to places I’ve lived - Chicago, Dayton - but radically changed. I’ll dream one of my ‘el’ dreams, and i’m on this commuter line that is part [...]

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