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[2010-10-10 10:12:32 +0000 UTC]
"Daniel walker"
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 10; Deviations: 753; Watchers: 18
Watching: 23; Pageviews: 11583; Comments Made: 371; Friends: 23
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: Victor CalderoneOther Interests: Gardening, mixing music
# About me
I think this is about the third time I said I was back and I really wasn't back at all. It's been a difficult few years amid lots of loss for me. This time I'm really feeling the need to be producing some form of art again. After all it is in the eye of the beholder. I don't usually think of myself as an "artist" but I love doing things that real artists do which is produce something that is artistic. As I laugh I'm very aware that this is some form of therapy for me. I mean really...you give even the least artistic man on earth a piece of white paper and a black pen and he just might make a masterpiece...in his eye anyway....isnt that what matters most? Sort of but not really...anyway here I am...so we'll see what happens...# Comments
Comments: 16
now I dont call anybody by anything other than their given name and I expect the same from everybody else. If you cant act like an adult you'll have to be treated like a child. I AM a gay man but am NOT a faggot.
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I think your absolutely right about what Jesus would do...with his index finger. I've thought this for a long time...people taking things to an extreme....thats what they always do. Like that will get them into heaven easier.... good point on your part..
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Oh Lord, all joking aside, a nurse of 30 years taking care of premature newborns... My friend, my brother, I love you, and I thank you from the absolute depths of my heart and soul and every FIBER of my being -- I was a premature baby whose life was saved on account of countless, tireless efforts made by the nurses who took care of me. In my fuzzy infant vision, I know I looked up at them, the nurses caring for my tiny, feeble body, and I saw God. Sure, call it "bad infant vision" if you would like to, but I don't think any profession on this earth is as God-like as those who embark into the profession of healthcare... those brave, incomparable souls who tend to the ill, the weak, the dying... who comfort us and heal us...
I am a proud (but TOLERANT!) Christian, and I've read my holy texts as well as those of many other sacred religions and spiritual belief structures from all over this humble floating rock we call Earth, and they all agreed on this one tenant of Faith; God comforts. God cares. God heals.
And I challenge you to refute me. I was taught ever since I was old enough to retain this information that God saves, and knowing what I know of the nurses who did just that for a tiny little baby with an APGAR reading of less than two, who was thought to have no chance, I will NEVER forget the nurses who believed in me, had faith in me, held me and whispered "grow, grow." They were angels. What else could they be? Who else would have sent them but God Himself?
My late father James offered the staff that saved me free car repairs at his self owned garage after I was pronoucned "thoroughly better and markedly improved." And God bless those selfless people, they turned him down on the offer. He said he had to repay them somehow, and one nurse literally looked right at him, honest to goodness confused, and asked "Thank us? For what?"
He knew the reason he got to waltz up and down the maternity ward that first week of April with his new baby girl, singing to her an old Al Jolson tune, that the only reason he had the gift of this moment of divinity with his daughter that it was only through the tireless work of the Madison General Hospital nursing staff of 1983 that he was allowed to have it.
From a premature baby who was believed in and cared for by such immense, wonderful and pure souls like you, you have my deepest thanks, but moreso than this, you have my love.
A. L. L. Pope
PS - The song my father sang to me, which the staff that saved me told him brought them to happy tears, was Al Jolson's 1920's hit, "Yes Sir, That's My Baby."
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Mandi, I am pretty amazed...not many infants who have an apgar of two go on to very well. You are very lucky for sure. The apgar is a score given by the RN after usually 1 minute of life. Repeated at 5 and then at 10 minutes. Is based on color, respirations and heart rate. Ya gotta have breathing and heart pumping to survive. If no respirations or heart rate (or very low we start cpr and continue until respirations and heart rate are such that would support life ...or we intubate with an endo tracheal tube and ventilate while someone else does chest compressions) or an MD says we can stop.. Once we start lifesaving measure we can't stop until someone with more training (such as an MD) gives us permission. Kind of complicated to explain but when in the moment goes extremely fast....
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Dear Democratic Dude Daniel,
You are made of pure, unadulterated Win. I've just browsed your gallery and I simply ADORE you. As such, I've humbly put you on my Friends List so I can keep up with your comings and goings, because I, myself, enjoy pure, unadulterated Win and I like to spend as much time around it as I can.
I love you, my Dem Brother. We are some hot pieces of "ass," are we not???
Love,
Mandi
PS - In the spirit of Bipartisanship, I will agree to hug their elephant if they would agree to kiss my ass.
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Mandi, I absolutely love your bipartisanship statement....wow.getting back a little bit...I have a sort of unique viewpoint regarding religion. I was pretty much a middle of the road believer most of my life. I WANTED to believe in God but never really saw any proof of it. Being in medicine makes it kind of difficult at times. I know of people who claim being in medicine makes it easier to believe in God, etc. For me..it just added to my confusion. Being in medicine, you sort of turn into a scientist...science does not support religion. I HAVE to believe there is God, some sort of after life...or I could never get out of bed in the morning. I mean, What is the purpose of all THIS craziness in the world, if THIS is all there is? I mean, maybe the world truly is devoid of GOD as we know or think we know..for us the living, I guess we will never really have any proof. I've thought, maybe religion is primitive man's way of accepting the universe and being able to adapt to the absolute of it all...dieing and being able to do so without being in too much turmoil. I think that because of all this, a good portion of people in the gay community have next to no religious beliefs. They feel it is impossible to be gay and fit in with any religion. I disagree with that. I try to not listen to the religious right with all the crap they spew. They don't know whats truly in my heart... Thanks again got your comments. Your exceptional...
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HEY, MAN, I love your stuff a lot!!! DEMOCRAT POWER!!!
Do you like Bill Clinton?? ;D
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The fact that you have The Man in your icon makes me just... instantly love you. I don't even know your name and I frankly don't care, I flat out love you.
Mandi, age 29, cardholding member of the Democratic Party of the State of Wisconsin and most of all, unapologetic Clintonite!
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Mandi I love the way you think. I personally think MR Clinton is...easily the greatest President of the last century....EASILY. With or without the monica bs...he ROCKS!
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DUDEEEE, I FUCKING LOVE YOU, TOO. I'm Katie, age 19, also a cardholding member of the Democratic Party, fellow midwesterner (Iowa), Clintonite, and Democrat for life, man. :')
[link] That's my car, HAHAHA
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In the words of someone no longer with us, Republicans tend to be "a bunch of money grubbing, green house gassing, seal clubbing, oil drilling, bible thumping, missile firing, right-to-lifeing, lethal-injecting hypocrites"
I LIKE THIS...
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The lethal injecting part is what makes me the angriest of all. All life is sacred, (and yes, I believe this and am personally pro-life but COMPLETELY and TOTALLY unwilling to force my personal tenants of faith and beliefs onto ANYONE else for ANY reason whatsoever), or so these Republicans cry at women's clinics with their signs with pictures of aborted babies, and yet... all life is sacred until it comes to that dude over there who committed a murder (I am not justifying this, mind!) and also, on top of his legitimate crime that deserves punishment, had the audacity to be, gasp, NOT WHITE! They cannot even see the hypocricy of their hateful rhetoric; they're too busy pushing the plunger on the syringe down.
I will NEVER support capitol punishment -- the people we are doling out justice to who did such an unspeakable, heinous act do NOT share our sacred belief that NO ONE has the right to take away the life of another; doing it under the guise of "justice" is simply more blood on more hands and solves nothing. We HAVE to hold true to that simple Truth that LIFE IS SACRED -- it is the thing that separates US from THEM. State sanctioned murder in response to a murder committed is NO LESS MURDER. If these Bible Thumping Turds want to get their values straight and be true to the God they haul out at every opportunity they get... did they conveniently forget that He left them with SPECIFIC instructions on those tablets handed down to Moses in the desert that "thou shalt not kill?" .... I've read the books, I didn't read anything that said, "unless they killed someone first, then you can kill them back and it's cool! And hell, do it in My name while you're at it, because I preach love, tolerance and mercy, and you killing people in my name makes total sense."
I hope Jesus returns to earth. I really do. I'm so anxious to see Him come down in a cloud of Light and Glory, shake his index finger at these Christian Extremists and say, "You guys, this is NOT what I meant!"
Love,
Mandi
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