bring out your dead ~

[lookingland]

thought on dead communities:

i apparently belong to a lot of dead livejournal communities.

i occasionally post to them, hoping to rouse some discussion, but not much has been happening. i leave them on my list because it's not like they clog up my friends' page or anything.

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thought on a dead person for the day:

harriet beecher-stowe ~ earnest and ill-informed reformer or deliberate propaganist? what is the responsibility of writers to tell the truth?

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things that kill:

once you've had good quality tea, there's just no going back to celestial seasonings, is there? bleh.

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dead projects worth resurrecting?:

just how long does something have to sit in a closet rotting before you declare it dead. much as i hold onto a number of very old and very abandoned projects, i still consider most of them to be viable. but i do have a handful of truly dead ideas that will never see the light of day. should i destroy all evidence of them? does anyone else have a horror of the thought of work being published posthumously which should never see the light of day?

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dead ends:

i need a hair trim really bad. this northern weather is wreaking havoc on my tresses.

: D

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Science says: "We must live," and seeks the means
of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life,
of making it tolerable and acceptable.

Wisdom says: "We must die," and seeks how to make us die well.

~ Socrates

Comments

[akirad.livejournal.com]

Communities are weird aren't they? It's a bit like trying to build a fire when you're camping - it begins with a spark, and a flame, but there's a lot of effort to keep it going, until there comes a magic moment when it can survive by itself and you can relax, sit back and enjoy it.

Yeah, that's what I think! :)

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

good analogy!

but even when the flame seems to be burning steady, if you don't continue to feed it, it will eventually die.

: o p

[magdalene74.livejournal.com]

Dont i know it.. ive started several communities that seemed like a good idea at the time, but with no one feeding the fire or fanning the flames but me, heck i curled up under a blanket and said to heck with it.
With Love,
Marie