Aurora's comments

Summer Silliness - Journal Entry

14 Jun 2006 08:42 AM

:-) Nichole - I am so lucky to be able to share this fun time with my kids. We jsut had Wacky ahir day at preschool! What fun to see the kids enjoying being different!

Worries - Journal Entry

14 Jun 2006 08:41 AM

Thanks Nicole. It is very hard. we take in these pets, we love them without reservation even knowing that someday we will lose them. And then, we do it all over again

My Daughter and Lee Valley - Journal Entry

07 Jun 2006 07:12 PM

Michele - it really is a gift to be able to have this time with them. My oldest is off to kindergarten in the fall and these are the last few months that I will have her all to myself - next fall the world starts to get to pull on her. I'm treasuring this time!

Of Heroics and Heros - Journal Entry

07 Jun 2006 07:00 AM

Thank you for reading it Nicole. I have been following the stories of the climber on Everest this climbing season with a number of climbers from my area making the trip. Andrew's story moved me, and I wanted to share it. :-)

Senate Votes & Marriage - Blog Entry

05 Jun 2006 12:26 PM

I think that there is a risk here in defining marriage in religious terms - how can we make that definition firm without nullifying all marriages that took place outside a chucrh? I think once we decide that we won't give equal rights to some our citizens, we risk losing them for all our citizens.

Maybe, Someday - Journal Entry

02 Jun 2006 07:03 PM

Hi Carson, a lot of things inspired this poem, but the thing that inspired me to finish it was a passage from the blog The Tao Of Pauly :

"If more Americans read books every night instead of watching TV, we'd live in a more productive society. If more Americans watched the news and read real newspapers and magazines, instead of crappy programs like American Idol, then I'm confident that George Bush would not be our president. But heck, that's what our leaders really want deep down... a mindless, uneducated populous that will work 40 hours a week so they can earn enough money to buy things to keep them distracted from the evil deeds that our leaders and suits in Fortune 500 companies are conducting everyday under your noses."

http://mcgrupp.blogspot.com/2006_05_01_mcgrupp_archive.html#114904960398558763