day 56 and 57

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questions, questions.

I borrowed these questions from Amylia, who has a short history of their origin and her answers up on her blog. Answer if you’re willing, and I’ll gladly read and learn more about my favorite online community.
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1. What is your idea of perfect happiness? Finishing up a walk with my husband, drinking a sugarless Vanilla [...]

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a sad story

A friend of my mother’s is a teacher, who has a little boy in her class on an insulin pump. Yesterday, the boy’s mother came and took him from school, saying that she was taking him home to remove his insulin pump because God had told her that he would be healed if she did [...]

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day 55

More than 1000 photos of life with diabetes can be seen at Diabetes 365.

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late night poetry reading

Some of my favorites.
The Day Of My Death
In a city, Trieste or Udine,
along the linden boulevard,
when in spring
the leaves change color,
I’ll drop dead
under the ardent sun,
blonde and tall,
and I’ll close my eyes,
leaving the sky to its splendor.
Under a warm green linden
I’ll fall into my death’s darkness,
scattering linden and sun.
The beautiful boys
will run in that [...]

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awesome!

Paste Magazine is having a holiday sale through Thursday where you choose the price of your 1 year subscription… as little as 1$ for the whole year. 1$ total, not per magazine. And they’ll let you do gift subscriptions as well!
Go here and look on the right hand side of the page for the [...]

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day 54

Today is a pretty remarkable day for us over at Diabetes 365… we’ve just gotten our 1000th photograph of life with diabetes, uploaded by the Flickr group founder himself, Bernard Farrell!

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day 53

Diabetes 365.

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art projects

I’m beginning to work up a plan and sketches for my next art project, a series of etchings: portraits of peace leaders and activists. I have several names in mind. I’m really excited about the project for several reasons…. primarily, the opportunity for portraiture without a need to cleave too closely to the desires of [...]

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day 52

Diabetes 365!

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