Al Jarreau - Tenderness 1994 Marcus Miller / Joe Sample/Steve Gadd / Eric Gale / Paulinho da Costa / Philippe Saisse / Michael Patches Stewart / Neil Larsen / Sharon Young / Jeffery Ramsey and featuring David Sanborn
I've changed this journal's theme. Third one in 10 years. [Well. Considering I was afk for most of the last 5 years, maybe that's not so surprising.] It just felt like time for some freshness.
Learned a week ago I've been re-accepted into a professional training program I had to drop out of [about the same time I went afk]. So excited, and somewhat anxious, because money/health/whatever, but have confidence that as a way is needed a way will open: I just need to keep myself open to it. More on this later- I'm probably going to friends-lock those entries, just to keep the professional side of my life minimally more isolated from fandom.
Speaking of fandom, the 15th anniversary of Fellowship has brought all sorts of things back to life, including my looking for and finding fics written for exchanges and communities. Anything I had ever saved off-line is in the dust of an old computer two computers ago. If there are any fics of mine that you've liked, saved, or been given by me, would you do me the favor and link me? The urge to write is surfacing [hope springs eternal] [and there's an oblique Aragorn reference that's only moderately porny] [hehe] and I'd like (?) to look over some of the old works.
Many good thoughts to one and all in these trying times. As much as you can, hang on to Sam's elven rope and Galadriel's golden hair; carry a jar of dirt; and may the Force be with you.
http://slashfairy.livejournal.com/398530.html Table of contents for Despair-Work, an essay by Joanna Macy on the weight of the Nuclear Age on each/all of us, whether we are consciously aware of it or not, and some ideas of what can be done for/by each of us to ease that burden.
Please take a few moments and go read this. Keep breathing, have some water. Connect with someone else, whether real or one of your fave characters, someone who calms you, supports you, understands you.