Serenity Quest

Ladies and Gentlemen, you will now find me at http://tishabest.blogspot.com

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Magnificent writer!

"The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth."


“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.”


“It is never to late to be what you might have been.”


“What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined ... to strengthen each other ... to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.”


- George Eliot English Victorian Novelist (Pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, 1819-1880

Published in LifeScript HEALTH NEWS BYTE
Wednesday, July 19, 2006

While smoking is never a healthy habit, a new study finds that women may be more sensitive to the effects of nicotine than men. Researchers at the University of California-San Francisco report that female patients in a recent study showed a faster rate of nicotine absorption than men. Perhaps most intriguingly, nicotine absorption rates were fastest among women who were taking oral contraceptives. Researchers called for further study, but hypothesized that hormones such as estrogen may play a role in the body's metabolism of nicotine. The study also suggested that nicotine remains in the body longer in men than women.


Interesting study. Nasty habit anyway and I will stop smoking tomorrow!

You've probably heard about this by now but since it seems to be a nasty trend I think we all should do something about it, don't you think?! First, what am I going on about:

Bloggers' fury as India blocks sites
Randeep Ramesh in New Delhi
Wednesday July 19, 2006
The Guardian

Indian censors have blocked access to a number of popular blogging sites on grounds of national security, causing outrage to thousands of bloggers.

The directive from the department of telecommunications (DoT) came days after the Mumbai blasts, and was aimed at shutting 17 blogs which carried material from religious and political extremists. But service providers were forced to cut all major sites, including the popular Geocities, Typepad and Google's Blogspot. Since then cyberspace has been filled with angry emails from bloggers in India who have attacked the government's "ham-handed, delinquent" move.

Contrary to what we see coming out of the region lately the Middle-East is awe-inspiring.

I took this photo in Petra, Jordan and if you haven't visited it yet you must!



Just behind those boulders is the extraordinary “Rose-Red City”.

For a moment there we thought that the Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah had gone to be with the virgins. But since God was out of them, virgins that is he sent him back to us for our amusement!

As George W. Bush confided "See, the irony is what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it's over."

IDF ground movements will advance the troops deep into the nest of Beirut the home of the terrorist group.

Was feeling queasy and ravenous this morning and a delicious ¼ roasted chicken fixed me right up. Oh and my pleasant telephone - yes some of us still use it – chat with a friend helped a lot too.

Off to Budapest, Hungary next week for a conference: International e-Participation and Local e-Democracy Symposium . Have never been there and honestly that’s what excites me the most. Sure the conference topic impassions me and the idea of meeting hundreds of new people excites me, however I will also be meeting up with a friend and former roommate I haven’t seen in more than 10 years! How marvelous! We met in Jerusalem and are now getting together in Europe. Small world and full of so many wonderful surprises we take for granted on a daily basis.

Ok, it's not Thanksgiving or anything so maybe I'm in a mushy mood or something but APPRECIATION, know the meaning of that word? Gratitude, thankfulness goes a long way. We don't show each other enough appreciation and it's really not that difficult to do in fact. A small word of thanks won't hurt us. Appreciation is mutual.

Efharisto poli. Thank you. Merci. Shukran. Todah Raba. Gracias. Danke. Xie xie. Obrigada. In every language possible THANK YOU for lending me a listening ear! Yeah you know who you are! Thanks!

I organized a meeting last week, which turned out rather well by the way, and as you know it's not the easiest thing to do when hi-execs are involved. Well, I had it out with one of the participants and told him "hey, you NEVER reply to my emails" and he had the nerve to respond "I'm here aren't I. I don't have time to answer e-mails. I read them, take action but don't answer them". Wouldn't we all save a lot of time if we did the same? If I don't answer yours you'll know why LOL.

My brother, lovely as he is just can't get his head around time zones. He called a half hour ago, 4:27 am and woke me up. Now I can't go back to sleep. Such a rude awakening! At first, I thought there was a family emergency and got nervous but then he started talking to me normally and I realized the fool got the time zones mixed up. I asked him "Are you crazy?", he apologized and said to call him tomorrow. Brother it is tomorrow here. Well after that I nevertheless wondered if he was ok and needed to talk, you never know if someone is in emotional distress. Nah, he was calling to talk about the war in the Mid-East. That fucken war! Why can't those damn Arabs stop threatening the existence of Israel? I'm so fed up with it and ask myself if it will ever end. The Bible says it won't...not that I take the Bible's word for it but sometimes you have to wonder!