Words to live by...

This came over the Twitter transom via @markos:

@SrWHOfficial: I learned in negotiating school that you start by giving concessions to show you're coming from a position of strength

Anybody out there in AdoptionWorld want to sign up for negotiating school?

BJ 11-19-2010

BJ Lifton, bodhisattva, I hear your voice tonight. As always, you are asking questions, and my answers spill into the deep well of your compassion. Tonight my answers are all "Thank you".

BJ, tonight the bastards are sitting with the loss of you. You are comforting, irritating, empowering, confounding; we sprang from your mind as ripples on a forest pond.

BJ, tonight I want to hear rain pour from the sky and fill the streams and creeks, to create a water realm worthy of the return of your kappa-spirit. I will look for you there.