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of the Month (Summer 2005)
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"Change is a strange thing"
"it cannot be denied" "It can help you find yourself" "or make you lose your pride" "Move with it slowly"
Jerry Santos, Olomana, "Ku'u Home
O Kahaluu"
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CRAP!!! This is the second time I could not
make up my mind on which verse to use. This is the one I know I should
have used, but the reasons to go with the other were just way too coincidental
to ignore. When that many factors just line up accidentially, you kind
of just go with it. The other verse I thought a lot about while sitting
on my favorite spot at my favorite beach, but at least once or twice of
someone specific in the future (maybe about 60-100 years) sitting in the
same spot, thinking of the same song, and thinking back to me sitting there.
I hate those kind of loops, but they happen sometimes. There were other
good reasons to use that other set of lyrics, "We're not the same color,
we're not even the same kind", etc. but the coincidences are what made
the final decision easy. I wanted a view of the world, kind of what you
see underneath what I am typing or underneath what you are reading, depending
on your point of view or mine. The only view I saw which I could use with
a big mess of ocean was the off the West coast of the United States. It
was too big to use the whole thing, and I needed to crop it to roughly
the same size as the previous months' backgrounds were. After selecting
it, testing out the lyric to see how it would look, I decided to try to
figure out where Hawaii was. Not only was it under the lyrics, but the
spot where I was sitting, the spot on Earth that the song lyric meant to
me in particular, was right under "Long ago a young man sat in this place
by the sea", AND right under the "p" in the word "place", with the letter
"p" pretty much pointing to the spot, at least on my HTML editor. Thus
that place and lyric to me I have imagined seeing both from another point
in time, and from pretty much an "X" marks the spot by the lyric itself
from far above it in space. Thus, I had to go with that lyric. This is
the lyric I wanted to use more though. It has the whole thing about change
not being able to be denied. How change can make you a better person than
you are today, or, if you are not careful, slowly, little by little, piece
by piece, become ashamed of who or what you are becoming because of life
itself, where it takes you, and how you may end up regretting it or not
being thrilled with who you are becoming. For which of course I might add,
you would have no one else to blame but yourself, so GTF over it, and start
doing and living by what you think is right, and as soon as possible. Right
**cking now because tomorrow might be too late. Just my opinion. Your mileage
may vary. Living by your own guide does not. That is bullshit proof, unless
you lie to yourself. Many do. I don't. I know myself well enough to know
when I am trying lie. :-)
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