I was going through recent images of me in search of a new default icon. My old one is a bit outdated, and I'm ready for something new. As a bonus, my new one matches my layout. I was also doodling with gradients, and so I played with a few pics of me from the same batch. Here's what I came up with:



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So, last night, Heather and I covered Taking The Stone, Crackers Don't Matter, The Way We Weren't, Picture If You Will, Home On The Remains, and Out Of Their Minds.

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Only the "Main," link on Farscape-Caps.Com is working for me-- all of the other buttons in the navbar still take me to the index page. Is my computer being weird?

The Prayer Cycle
A multi-lingual choral symphony in 9 movements

Words and Music by Jonathan Elias
Orchestrated and Conducted by Lawrence Schwartz
Various translations by Alanis Morissette and Gustavo Santaolalla

These will be up for 7 days or 100 downloads, whatever comes first. If they run out, I will upload .zips as needed.

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If you enjoy this work, I do encourage you to buy it. I'm providing it here because it is so rare, and I want to spread it around. However, you can find it at Amazon.Com. I first heard this work on 9/11/2003, on the way back from a concert. NPR was doing a musical memorial to those who were killed in the attacks by airing works inspired by the event. Even though I was sleeping, I was awoken from a dream to hear movement 6, Innocence. This is a prayer for our world, for where it is heading, to end the pain we cause each other. I searched and searched for this, and I finally found the disc, so I'm sharing it with you.

Michael left me the sweetest message today, telling me how he misses me wholeheartedly, and that I was beautiful, that he came back to look at my picture post about fifty times while he was supposed to be working, and that he can't wait to see me this weekend. He sounded so shy. He sounded the way one sounds when they are smiling. We leave each other messages like these quite often. Last night, we were talking and he told me that he can't wait until the day he knows he has me to come home to. It will be our secret eden.

I know we have had our rough patches, and sadly, those are the things I write about the most often because I need to work things out in my head. But it's a testament to the strength of our relationship that 3+ years into it and we can be just as sweet with each other as a couple just learning each others' bodies and minds. We make cinematic love, and he still makes me smile. He makes me feel wholly loved. I am a lucky girl.