Dorian’s Demitasse

(|_| Drink Deeply |_|) of my own writing @ coffeesister.net

• Beauty, Bread and the Beloved
  My singular guest-poster has returned to celebrate our return to Camp Nelson, allowing me to crosspost his marvelous Xmas Eve reminiscence from the perspective of all three Christmas ghosts at once (thank you, Hunny). I married a girl some time ago and there was this whole family that came along with the deal. My dad had drawn [...]
• 30 Things About My Invisible Illness You May Not Know (for Invisible Illness Awareness Week)
  With Invisible Illness Week wrapping up, I was determined to blog again (as promised) & what better way than to do the meme created for the event. These 30 queries have been 3 days in the answering but I hung in there because awareness of illnesses & issues that are so often not recognized, much less understood, is crucial to the well[ish]-being of t […]
• What’s getting in YOUR way?
  Whatever it is, don't let it.. not completely anyway. We all have things we're putting off & issues that are holding us back. The damn dirty deal of it all is that we don't always have a choice. Now, don't get me wrong; we always have a choice but sometimes all we can choose is our attitude. The simple truth is that we can't do a […]
• What the Hell, right?
  What's with the 404s?! Yesterday, the whole site was gone & today there's another missing post. Who's running this site anyway!? Oh yeah, that'd be me; you know, the one typing this. Of course, I'm done typing now as it's been published & is being read by you -- thanx, btw! :grin: My weekly[ish] tweet posts require editi […]
• Tweets, Retweets & Quotations
  People don't change w/the times, they change the times. -PK Shaw (in challenging ourselves, we challenge the status quo) # retweet of @klamach: i would rather die on my feet in peaceful dissidence than live on my knees in oppression #iranelection # Iranian Women & The Uprising: Culture, Rights & Roundhouse Kicks # @bust_magazine http://tinyurl.c […]
• Independence is a State of Mind
  The Declaration of Independence was adopted on the 4th of July but had yet to be signed & started as a resolution a month earlier. True change is never instantaneous but each choice plants a seed & every action waters it. What may start as unrest or discomfort often leads to declarations of intent yet it's what we do with those good intentions t […]
• Hang in there w/me?!
  Thanx for your patience (hopefully ~_~) w/these weekly Twitter posts. Not only am I in the process of editing them but the intent behind them was to intersperse regular posts. *oops* Seriously tho', they are meant to share the best tweets of the week: the links, photos, quotations & videos. The one below is the only one edited so far, the rest will […]
• Tweets, Retweets & Quotations
  Welcome to June, dear Tweeps.. many a new beginning lined up, incl. our 19th wedding anniversary tomorrow & @RhodesTer's 50th b-day the 9th! # from the keys of 1 of Twitter's founders-@Ev: retwt of @evskeys: Even I know love's not based on the hardware you're born with. No one can tell you the shape of the key that opens your
• YOU so silly!
  Silliness should be prized. I've had the good fortune of being raised with it as it's always been one of my family's most prized pursuits. None of us are class clowns or cut-ups but we love to laugh. We laugh readily & easily as well as good & long, especially when a shared bit of silly is the cause. Of course, it's not so much th […]
• Blessed
  My 1st ever guest post, about my 1st ever soulmate, by my 2nd one; thanx Hunny! We are blessed to have known her She made our lives rich - vibrant - better She was our mother - our grandmother - our friend wife - sister - aunt She's gone on now, to be with those who wait for us and look over us and pray for us She knows and understands and loves all the […]
• Dorian’s Demitasse
  "Don't curse the darkness - light a candle." ~ Chinese Proverb ~ (we all have light to lend & light sources to draw from, find what ignites you) [SEE this quotationary's full post @ the Demitasse blog.] The "Dorian's Demitasse" blog posts can be requested by e-mail, perused @ coffeesister.info &/or subscribed to via […]
• Happy Damn Holidays!
  What the Hell's so special about December? Absolutely nothing. Calendars are changed time & again, traditions are tweaked over the years & holidays are moved about as if in competition. Thus, it's not the month, the time time of year nor even the holidays being celebrated we should give a damn about. It's the opportunity to do so. Alth […]
• Thankfully grateful or gratefully thankful?
  Surely those options scarcely differ yet they do strike me differently. Either I’m fundamentally grateful & thankful for that disposition or I’ve ascertained there’s much to be thankful for & am grateful I have. We may each innately lean one direction or the other; either appreciative at the outset or reminding ourselves why we shou […]
• To rest, perchance to live:
  Ay, there’s the rub; We compromise the quality of our lives when we don’t include quality rest. Many find it difficult to stop, to be still — within & without — yet we must. There’s no timetable but if we refuse to step down periodically, our bodies will eventually throw us down. Even with wonky [...]
• Allhallows Even
  Halloween is an opportunity waiting to be seized; not only to let our imaginations run free but as a meeting of minds. Originally celebrating summer’s end, over time — as holidays are wont to do — it got hijacked became more. Having long been a festival of the dead & now the lead-in to All [...]
• A portrait of poverty (Blog Action Day)
  Perspectives have been written, definitions offered & statistics studied yet, amidst it all, two things hold true; poverty is more widespread than people realize & there, but for any moment’s given grace, go all. We’ve all suffered setbacks, perhaps even encountered a chain reaction of them & our successes are as attributable to us as […]
• Dear Mary Ann,
  If I could say only two words to you, they’d be thank you. Since I can no longer say anything directly to you, why stop at two? I always had more to say than you did so this refusal to yield will come as no surprise to you. A refusal to yield is, in fact, [...]
• Be it bias or brilliance..
  ..I kick ass! An audience of one is sufficient to make a difference. Were my hunny the extent of that audience, I’d still have a reach that matters for such support is not to be taken lightly. Knowing neither of us offers compliments to be naught but nice though, RhodesTer declaring me a “kick-ass blogger” [...]
• Under Construction
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• Independence found, freedom fostered
  What’s your freedom? Last Friday was Independence Day, Canada Day was the Tuesday before & this coming Monday is Bastille Day. That’s a hell of a lot of freedom being celebrated this month. Whether mindful of existing freedoms or aware of any lack thereof, July offers food for thought. It was also this month that [...]