A friend of mine did a blog asking all her friends to comment with their definition of love. This is mine…

Most people think of love as a concept – an intangible element that we spend our lives searching for, grasping like grains of sand but rarely holding tightly enough to fully experience. Some people even believe it’s a myth – a poor attempt to place a label on excuses for human inadequacies.

I say love is something you can see, almost everywhere, once you put reason in the trunk and allow whimsical to ride shotgun.  It’s physical and metaphorical, apparent and incalculable, subtle yet smothering. Right now, where you sit, look and you’ll see it.

Love is the sweat dripping from a father’s forehead as he tightens the chain on his daughter’s bike. It’s the tension in the muscles of a hand holding a pick over the strings of Stratocaster illuminated by flood lights and vibrating from twenty thousand screams. It is the water drawn 300 feet in the air by a redwood tree.

Love is the smacking sound of an old man’s lips as he sips his morning coffee and the smile on an old woman’s face as she takes the compliment. It is a teacher rubbing her eyes so they will function after midnight as she grades her student’s work, the record sprint of a child from the bus to the lap of her mom, the tightness of the hug between the two, and the electromagnetic force behind the piece of rubber holding the paper with a big red “A+” on it to the refrigerator.

Love lives at that exact point at which an artist’s brush makes contact with the canvas. It jumps off a puppy’s wet nose, goes through a child’s face into his blood, and straight to his heart, and love softens the rough handle of a shovel when the family pet is buried. Love pushes the atmosphere out of the way of sound waves created by every blues song, and feeds off the embrace of couples on the dance floor.

Love follows tears down faces that cry and follows the edge of the moth up faces that laugh. It follows wave to the beach and sunsets out to sea.  It is the stitching that holds together the quilt your grandmother made that lays folded on the back of the chair in the corner, and the neck tie from your son in your closet that doesn’t match anything.

Love tugs at the hands of outside hospital waiting rooms and makes the slides on playgrounds slicker. It is the thing that brings people to your house unannounced. It is a losing player offering a handshake to the winner after a football game and scabs on his arms and legs when he tries harder the next week. Love has never gone to war but has never left the side those affected by it.

Love is that is those things, and love is the feeling over your entire body at the exact moment you realize that all is this is true.

Timmy

So basically I hate the DDS. First of all I don’t get why they changed the name to begin with what was wrong with the DMV? But I guess the reason why I hate them is because it seems like there is always one person who truely hates life and wants nothing more than to make you hate it too. and then on top of that they’re being a complete asshole to you even though you’re simply trying to figure out of to take care of your problem in a nice and calm manner. Then you find out that they can’t help you and you have to mail your stuff off to the Dept. of driver’s services in conyers. What is so special there. I just wanted to give them my money and form and leave. but no. i had to leave without accomplishing anything and return to the bank to deposit the money i had withdrawn so i could write freaking check! today just kind of sucked. probably because i’m sleep deprived. i’ll probably go crash in a minute. But thats my rant about the DDS. I should start calling it the department of dick sucking.

Les Paul, who invented the solid-body electric guitar later wielded by a legion of rock ‘n’ roll greats, died Thursday of complications from pneumonia. He was 94. As an inventor, Paul also helped bring about the rise of rock ‘n’ roll with multitrack recording, which enables artists to record different instruments at different times, sing harmony with themselves, and then carefully balance the tracks in the finished recording.

Pete Townsend of the Who, Steve Howe of Yes, jazz great Al DiMeola and Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page all made the Gibson Les Paul their trademark six-string. Over the years, the Les Paul series has become one of the most widely used guitars in the music industry. In 2005, Christie’s auction house sold a 1955 Gibson Les Paul for $45,600.

So in about two hours I’ll be on my way to my first of four days in a risk reduction class. I have no idea whats going to happen during it. I just know that i’ll be there for 8 hours and that its costing us a fortune. Has anyone ever to take a DUI risk reduction class before? If so what do they make you do? I really hope there is no test at the end. If theres a test and I fail it, I’m going to be seriously pissed. I think that people with drug related charges go to the same risk reduction class as DUI’s, if thats case its kind of retarded. I don’t think its a good idea to force people with substance abuse problems into the same room for extended periods. It just gives them a chance to network and get more connections. I really don’t want to be around people with substance abuse problems (that are content with their current situations. rehab is fine, but most people in risk reduction are there becuase its court ordered), because i’m still trying to overcome my issues with it and i’m doing pretty well for once. I’m easily persuaded and the thought of it scares me. I know it kind of sounds rediculous. but i don’t know if i can bounce back the next time so i don’t even want to be in the position to where it could happen.   UHG… i’m sorry i’m kind of ranting now. I’m just worried and in a nervous hyper state. Have a wonderful day.

You know how difficult it is to get people to do shoots for my site? I didnt think that many people turn down free sex, but its especially hard to find women to do girl girl with. Ive been on a very well known adult dating site and still just about nothing. A little easier to find men , but not much. Whats going on with this? ALot of “couples” are just uys lookin to cheat on their wives…roblem is Im just as interested in her as I am him. It gets really frustrating because Ive been trying to do girl girl since Ive started..hell , I want to do it for fun too…but no luck ..it is a real bummer.