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<title>Coffeespark / Latest Stories</title>
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<description>Coffeespark. Interesting people, interesting issues  votes</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:06:31 CDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Have Your Cake And Eat It Too]]></title>
<link>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=Have_Your_Cake_And_Eat_It_Too</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:06:31 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mey</dc:creator>
<category>Love / Relationships</category>
<guid>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=Have_Your_Cake_And_Eat_It_Too</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I've always told my daughter to find someone who would shower her with affection, who would think the world of her and love her more than she loved him. The reason for this is that a woman always tend to put something more into the relationship emotionally because that's how we are wired anyway, so to find a man who is completely smitten puts the equal in the equation.It is better that a man loves you more because men have a bad habit of becoming bored, more than women. Men get lazy in love. <br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A SOUL KNIFED SHUT]]></title>
<link>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=A_SOUL_KNIFED_SHUT-1</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:17:56 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>summer</dc:creator>
<category>Love / Relationships</category>
<guid>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=A_SOUL_KNIFED_SHUT-1</guid>
<description><![CDATA[like a snowdrift clingingto a hillsidelike shadow to lightmy misery clothes mechases meso remorselesslyloving- from Bough's poemon 08 Sept 2003 at 5:02am Summer wrote:It's not the things we have, but the things we enjoy, that constitute our abundance.We can never run away from sadness Bough, but we can always meet it with a grateful heart… and perhaps hope to conquer it. A 'sunbeam,' the morning after a night laid to rest, would be enough for me.Summer<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ignorance]]></title>
<link>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=Ignorance</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:29:39 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mey</dc:creator>
<category>Miscellaneous</category>
<guid>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=Ignorance</guid>
<description><![CDATA[She was typical. Her face rouged too pink at the cheeks, pouting lips a little too red for comfort, eye liner smudged from crying, spaghetti top too clingy for comfort and a low skirt revealing a roll of belly fat on both sides which she should be better off covering. She wore high-heeled wedges with cork soles that had seen better days. She walked back and forth as she awaited the lab results.She was being tested for HIV and hepatitis, her lifestyle finally catching up with her.    She was<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[TEARS]]></title>
<link>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=TEARS</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:03:25 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>summer</dc:creator>
<category>Love / Relationships</category>
<guid>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=TEARS</guid>
<description><![CDATA[on 03 Sept 2003 Summer wrote:‘Movements in C Minor'… just about but not quite. In this sense, I can see how the nomenclature applies Bough. :)It's easy to think about this entry as surreal, although it's not easy to give up the hope that it's not.Years ago I read a book entitled ‘Tully' and there a line went, ‘If somebody loves you, or even as much as cared for you, he will get it.' I know it's not always easy to guess how somebody thinks or feels; that sometimes one will have t<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[AT FIRST LIGHT]]></title>
<link>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=AT_FIRST_LIGHT</link>
<comments>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=AT_FIRST_LIGHT</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:03:51 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>summer</dc:creator>
<category>Love / Relationships</category>
<guid>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=AT_FIRST_LIGHT</guid>
<description><![CDATA[on 29 Aug 2003 at 3:09am Summer wrote:I do not think it is our place to greet sunrise with freshness.I always thought morning dew comes to cleanse before the sun's first rays bring to us a new day… more fresh and brand new than the first.It is life's gift to us.Summer~o~on 05 Sep 2003 at 6:35am Bough wrote:Ah, to be always seeing possibility in every gasp for air everyday To see beauty in a compost heap - what a divine way to overcome this growing weightfulness o<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[JOY APPROXIMATED]]></title>
<link>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=JOY_APPROXIMATED-1</link>
<comments>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=JOY_APPROXIMATED-1</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:28:55 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>summer</dc:creator>
<category>Love / Relationships</category>
<guid>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=JOY_APPROXIMATED-1</guid>
<description><![CDATA[on 26 August 2003 at 11:01am Summer wrote:Sometime in my adolescence, I wrote, on my bedroom wall, with a red lipstick, &quot;The deepest joy, like the deepest sorrow, is silent.&quot; My mom made me scrub it off but that is neither here nor there…For some reason, your last paragraph made me want to weep. It makes me think that living in a world where so much angst can be had, joy has indeed become a rare treasure that sometimes people have lost sense of how to deal with it. The way you described<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[To Love And Be Loved]]></title>
<link>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=To_Love_And_Be_Loved-1</link>
<comments>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=To_Love_And_Be_Loved-1</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:39:39 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mey</dc:creator>
<category>Love / Relationships</category>
<guid>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=To_Love_And_Be_Loved-1</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Can we still love someone who has stopped loving us in return?People come and go into our lives.. friends.. lovers..sometimes even family. We say we love them but do we? Really? What do we do when they stop returning the feelings we have for them?  Do we only  show love  because we are loved back?I have heard and read numerous advice given to  lovers to get out of a one-way relationship, or a friend to terminate the relationship when he or she is being taken advantage of.In all the case<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[INTO A VOID]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:25:07 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>summer</dc:creator>
<category>Love / Relationships</category>
<guid>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=INTO_A_VOID-1</guid>
<description><![CDATA[on 22 August 2003, Summer wrote:In a twisted way, silence, brought forth out of dismal moments, or maybe not that… maybe even just somber quiet… can be beautiful.It brings to fore a lot of things we either ignore or unintentionally overlook… things that make us sad or happy, even things that render us defiant against life and its hard knocks… things we've never honored with a conscious pervading thought.I think we need these moments… but not too much. If one would care to toss a bot<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What is this GUY? Any Clue !! What should I do??]]></title>
<link>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=What_is_this_GUY_Any_Clue__What_should_I_do</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:54:20 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>priyakumar</dc:creator>
<category>Personal</category>
<guid>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=What_is_this_GUY_Any_Clue__What_should_I_do</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It might be weird for you guys to read this. I seem to be liking a guy who is tall and built. The way i like the guys to be. He got introduced to me first. But then later i introduced one of my friend's to him. She also works with me in the same city. And we have been buddies since school (From KG to 12th ) !! ..awesome frens actually. Then, after the introduction this guy hardly messages or speaks with me. But at the same time he seems to be be calling her all the time.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[MEMORY AT REST]]></title>
<link>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=MEMORY_AT_REST</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:47:52 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>summer</dc:creator>
<category>Love / Relationships</category>
<guid>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=MEMORY_AT_REST</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Still I'd embrace itlike a pillow to my colduntil the warmthof anotherdarkness- an excerpt from Bough's poem~o~on 18 August 2003 at 3:53am, Summer wrote:Goodness Bough… how is it that these words have been concocted yet were not meant for me?… :)It's beautiful… and yet, not as if beauty is all that it takes to be in love… profoundly in love, if I had been… if I ever were.Summer<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[&quot;Blue&quot;]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:22:56 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mey</dc:creator>
<category>Love / Relationships</category>
<guid>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=Blue</guid>
<description><![CDATA[There was this little caterpillar...her name was  Blue. This caterpillar was named after her constant mood. She was often  lonely, wallowing in a sea of tears. It was past the time when she should have been transformed into those tiny flying things up in the air. She was a sad little creature who thought that she'd be forever earth-bound. She envied the tiny moths who flitted and floated.. dived and glided with their tiny wings up in the air. She wished she had their freedom.      In her m<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[BETWEEN EXISTENCE AND DISSOLUTION]]></title>
<link>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=BETWEEN_EXISTENCE_AND_DISSOLUTION</link>
<comments>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=BETWEEN_EXISTENCE_AND_DISSOLUTION</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:34:42 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>summer</dc:creator>
<category>Love / Relationships</category>
<guid>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=BETWEEN_EXISTENCE_AND_DISSOLUTION</guid>
<description><![CDATA[16 August 2003 at 1:57am, Summer wrote:I used to find it a bit stiffening and suffocating to have to curb my ways because of their effect on people and what they bring about. I always thought that we must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.As I grew older, I realized it's not so much ‘curbing my ways' as polishing my person… not so much ‘other people's limited perceptions' as my own crude behavior.One Cathy Better said:Life is raw material. We are artisans<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Monday Mourning]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:23:04 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mey</dc:creator>
<category>Personal</category>
<guid>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=Monday_Mourning</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I feel so sad today..sad for the passing of a love that wasn't even given a chance to blossom..sad for the lonely heart that is clueless of its fate.. sad for the wandering heart that cannot recognize true love it holds in its hands.     I feel so sad today..sad that I cannot put into words how my own heart is breaking..sad how I am unable to make my love felt by the persons who only see me as some form of window dressing.     I feel so sad today..sad that I have to talk in riddles abo<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SLUMP]]></title>
<link>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=SLUMP</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:01:33 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>summer</dc:creator>
<category>Love / Relationships</category>
<guid>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=SLUMP</guid>
<description><![CDATA[on 13 August 2003 at 4:13am, Summer wrote:Through my readings, I came across these words which come to mind as I was reading your post: ‘When life seems just a dreary grind; and things seem fated to annoy; say something nice to someone else and watch the world light up with joy.' I'm sorry that I cannot provide the source because my memory fails me on that. For all I know, it's something I read out of a Hallmark card… heh.I think people would have these moments at any given time… I know<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ON QUESTIONS AND CHILDREN]]></title>
<link>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=ON_QUESTIONS_AND_CHILDREN</link>
<comments>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=ON_QUESTIONS_AND_CHILDREN</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:50:06 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>summer</dc:creator>
<category>Love / Relationships</category>
<guid>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=ON_QUESTIONS_AND_CHILDREN</guid>
<description><![CDATA[on 25 July 2003 at 11:05am Summer wrote:Have you ever had a conversation with kids wherein they ask you a whole barrage of ‘why' questions?I remember having one such conversation with my niece before. It was getting on in a way that it was really running my patience thin but I felt I had to go out of my way to accommodate her cause I didn't want to leave her with a bad feeling about asking questions.Just when I thought I'd given her an answer that left no room for another ‘why' ques<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Got A Light?!...Anyone?]]></title>
<link>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=Got_A_Light---Anyone</link>
<comments>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=Got_A_Light---Anyone</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:07:26 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mey</dc:creator>
<category>Personal</category>
<guid>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=Got_A_Light---Anyone</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Smoking, like cancer, runs in our family.    When my father succumbed to lung cancer fifteen years ago, my brothers and sisters and I, vowed to avenge his death. Not by heeding the dreadful warning of the surgeon general but by smoking more...red filters.. menthols..name it, we smoked it! On hind sight, I think it was our way of coping for being left behind. More so with ME.    I smoked like a chimney, my children used to say! In the morning, coffee tasted better with the smoke of cigar<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SURVIVING THE LION'S DEN]]></title>
<link>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=SURVIVING_THE_LIONS_DEN</link>
<comments>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=SURVIVING_THE_LIONS_DEN</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:28:36 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>summer</dc:creator>
<category>Love / Relationships</category>
<guid>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=SURVIVING_THE_LIONS_DEN</guid>
<description><![CDATA[on 24 July 2003 at 5:04am Summer wrote:Life will always have questions, and answers to those questions and questions to those answers… and round it goes as the world itself rotates. At any given time, the measures we impose might have to be the same measures we have to bear.I always try to remember to take everything in my life with a grain of salt. There will always be worries, and troubles and uncertainties. But then, I find that these things are punctuated by moments of joy, of trium<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Say Something...Please!]]></title>
<link>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=Say_Something---Please</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:51:45 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mey</dc:creator>
<category>Personal</category>
<guid>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=Say_Something---Please</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Let it go.    You let them get to you...You let them dictate your life...Who are they , anyway?     Opinions of others? You always had to stand up for your right to live your own life. So many voices telling you which way to go. The loudest are the voices within your head... the things you imagine everyone is going to think of you...the worried little voice that steals all your courage.       How do you deafen your ears to the voices of doubt and fear?      Double-minded. Make u<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[BY WHAT NAME DO I KNOW YOU]]></title>
<link>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=BY_WHAT_NAME_DO_I_KNOW_YOU-1</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:48:07 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>summer</dc:creator>
<category>Love / Relationships</category>
<guid>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=BY_WHAT_NAME_DO_I_KNOW_YOU-1</guid>
<description><![CDATA[----- Original Message ----- From: BoughTo: SummerSent: Friday, July 18, 2003 7:37 AMSubject: Re: Hello..The first time I noticed your email addy, I immediately thought of a Morris West book that I read a long time ago -- one of my favorite reads. Startling name to choose. The noun is meaningless to me when I associate it with clowning, but when I think of it... I think of another word… chameleon. The one nobody ever knows; the one you see is what you may not know. Definition-wise<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Scatterbrain]]></title>
<link>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=Scatterbrain-1</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:45:14 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>aveleen</dc:creator>
<category>Personal</category>
<guid>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=Scatterbrain-1</guid>
<description><![CDATA[My heart and mind isn't working well. Actually I don't think they're working at all.I am in a middle of some crisis I can't define. I can't finish any of the books I bought to take my mind off things. I haven't worn new shoes I bought for night outs because I would refuse invitations. I can't understand the required journals for my class despite reading them over and over again.  I haven't finished researches and technical papers for work.  I've started missing deadlines and making errors<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[TRUE COLD]]></title>
<link>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=TRUE_COLD-1</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:27:26 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>summer</dc:creator>
<category>Love / Relationships</category>
<guid>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=TRUE_COLD-1</guid>
<description><![CDATA[on 18 July 2003 at 4:15am Summer wrote:I'm sorry to hear about this… late as it may be. I'm a nurse myself and have taken my board exams in the Phils. I know it's not easy. You go through 4 years of studying facts and concepts and just when you think you're all through with it, you're tested for the same facts and concepts and you have to remember everything in a span of hours… talk about information overload.Bough, I got through that exam and I got through my CG. But guess what, I'<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[GOING PRIVATE]]></title>
<link>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=GOING_PRIVATE-1</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:40:44 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>summer</dc:creator>
<category>Love / Relationships</category>
<guid>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=GOING_PRIVATE-1</guid>
<description><![CDATA[----- Original Message ----- From: BoughTo: SummerSent: Monday, July 14, 2003 2:06 PMSubject: Hello..Hi Summer...Thanks for sharing your own &quot;footprints&quot;...as you know it is a lonely shore that has no other footprints, other than your own, to affirm that one has a choice not to be lonely...I wanted to add you to my list of people I go and visit...on my sidebar...but everytime I try to go to your weblog I get error messages, and the site never comes up on my screen. I don'<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ON THE WHIMS OF UNCARING WINDS]]></title>
<link>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=ON_THE_WHIMS_OF_UNCARING_WINDS</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:26:30 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>summer</dc:creator>
<category>Love / Relationships</category>
<guid>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=ON_THE_WHIMS_OF_UNCARING_WINDS</guid>
<description><![CDATA[on 17 July 2003 at 5:07am, Summer wrote:Whenever friends tell me about their troubles, I always tell them to hang on… that it too shall pass, as everything else does in life… even life itself. And the thing is, in the face of such an eventuality, nothing really matters after all.But life is still there for the living as long as we have it, Bough. And so live it we must, whether we do it going through the motions or picking up a few lessons here and there, gaining a few friends, savoring<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dancing The &quot;Cha-Cha&quot;]]></title>
<link>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=Dancing_The_Cha-Cha</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:11:00 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mey</dc:creator>
<category>Personal</category>
<guid>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=Dancing_The_Cha-Cha</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Old age is a gift...      I am now, probably for the first time in my life, the person I always wanted to be. Though the wrinkles, the baggy eyes, and the sagging butt are causes of despair sometimes, my body has ceased to be a concern any longer. I've learned not to agonize when I am taken aback by the old person who lives in the mirror.       I would never trade my family, my friends, and my colorful life  for less gray hair and a flatter belly. As I have aged, I have been kinder to <br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[TOWARD MOVEMENT]]></title>
<link>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=TOWARD_MOVEMENT-1</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:32:54 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>summer</dc:creator>
<category>Love / Relationships</category>
<guid>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=TOWARD_MOVEMENT-1</guid>
<description><![CDATA[on 11 July 2003 at 7:10am, Summer wrote:I agree with you when you say that contentment is, for the most part, a state of mind. But Bough, I do feel that it is achievable.I speak for myself when I say this, and in all humility if you will allow, that generally I feel contented with my life. I am not rich and moreover, I am unemployed. I keep house for my husband who is lucky enough to find work here. It's lonely being away from my family and all the things we grew up with back home. We h<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[PERSPECTIVE]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:08:30 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>summer</dc:creator>
<category>Love / Relationships</category>
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<description><![CDATA[on 11 July 2003 at 6:04am, Summer wrote:This is all so true, Bough… and very positive. I guess in a nutshell, our life's experiences serve to diminish us to our true essence, unadulterated by our misconceptions about ourselves, what we are made of and what we can become, by pruning away the peripheral borders of our life prisms, so we can get to the very source of light. It may be less colorful in the end, but we will see ourselves more clearly and with all the brightness of reality. This i<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[I'm Afraid to Fly]]></title>
<link>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=Im_Afraid_to_Fly</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:42:39 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mey</dc:creator>
<category>Personal</category>
<guid>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=Im_Afraid_to_Fly</guid>
<description><![CDATA[What, start blogging at this age? When the years have spread their gray experience on my head? Is this all that I can come up with to assuage my feelings of emptiness? Wise men did say that emptiness is borne out of not living creatively, of letting your talents wither and go to waste because you're either too lazy or too scared of whatever great art you might come up with..    I am scared--not because I didn't know how to put words together but I am more scared of using the computer than<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[LANGUID WITH POETRY]]></title>
<link>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=LANGUID_WITH_POETRY-1</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:04:11 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>summer</dc:creator>
<category>Love / Relationships</category>
<guid>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=LANGUID_WITH_POETRY-1</guid>
<description><![CDATA[When I first started going to B's site, I told her I loved being there because I'm a frustrated poet. I've tried but the more I did, the more it became apparent that I could never be one. And so I stopped, for my sanity. I had to make my peace with the fact that there are just some things I could never do and that it would be best left to the gifted… heh.But I've never stopped loving poems. And I admire people who can write it well. For some reason, and this I've also mentioned to B, I like<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[HELLO]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:23:17 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>summer</dc:creator>
<category>Love / Relationships</category>
<guid>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=HELLO-1</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This is how it started... how it all began.~o~Hi Bough. I got here through B's site… unthinkingly. It was easy enough with my mouse… heh. Apparently, I didn't know what I was getting into.First, I want to say I am so dumbfounded at the beauty of your prose. Aside from this post, I've read your introduction and believe me, it raised the hair on my back. It's so raw and spontaneous… so self-revealing and honest… so beautiful and well-crafted. I love words myself and with what little t<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Tainted Halo]]></title>
<link>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=Tainted_Halo</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:52:46 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mey</dc:creator>
<category>Personal</category>
<guid>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=Tainted_Halo</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I am not perfect nor do I pretend that I am near perfection.   I never said a word when you decided that I did not deserve to be loved. I didn't pull my hair or cry to high heavens just because you thought indifference was a better way to make me see how utterly disappointing I am to you, that I am not the saint you thought I was, that although I hide behind my years for the respectability I project I am nothing but an idol with feet made of clay.    I make mistakes, I hand out flawed <br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Golden Ticket]]></title>
<link>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=Golden_Ticket</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:07:29 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jobert</dc:creator>
<category>Personal</category>
<guid>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=Golden_Ticket</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I have been telling myself that there is something grand awaiting me. It's like everything is temporary until that one big thing.It's been 25 years now and still no big thing. Did it already happen and that it wasn't as big as I thought it would be? Was I so distracted with the waiting, that I miss the arrival?For some reason, the feeling is still strong with me and that there is something ahead of me, just waiting. That the world around me would be a better place when it happens. An<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Forty]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:36:01 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jobert</dc:creator>
<category>Personal</category>
<guid>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=Forty-1</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Forty things about me.Some, I cannot comprehend but everything, I cannot deny.<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ROCK MY WORLD]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:10:20 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mey</dc:creator>
<category>Personal</category>
<guid>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=ROCK_MY_WORLD</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I will never think of this day again without a grin on my face!    After weeks of playing the recluse,I said enough to the boring days of tinkering with the laptop and spending the day just watching out for people who are online, hoping to strike out a conversation or two. Virtual interaction just left me wanting for more company and made me more lonely. So I decided to shake things a bit, get away from the routine and add the zing to my otherwise too staid existence. Today, we were to emba<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[THE LOVE LETTER]]></title>
<link>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=THE_LOVE_LETTER</link>
<comments>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=THE_LOVE_LETTER</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:51:40 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mey</dc:creator>
<category>Love / Relationships</category>
<guid>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=THE_LOVE_LETTER</guid>
<description><![CDATA[...&quot;I hate it when you cry. I always get that feeling of helplessness. I wish I could hold you then you'd tell me what it is that made you cry and I'd make it all go away. If only it was that easy...&quot;    Slowly, I folded the letter carefully. She wanted me to keep it for her. As a keepsake, a remembrance from some guy she didn't love..    How time flew!  Wasn't it just yesterday when my daughter was  reeling from a love affair gone sour? Didn't I witness the bitter tears, the sel<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[I'm so confused what to do...]]></title>
<link>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=Im_so_confused_what_to_do---</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:45:14 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>coledude21</dc:creator>
<category>Love / Relationships</category>
<guid>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=Im_so_confused_what_to_do---</guid>
<description><![CDATA[There's this boy that I met that I've been really digging, but the problem is...he wants to be friends with benefits for now.  Do you think that'll change?Okay, so you're probably thinking 'no way Jose, things aren't going to better, you're setting yourself up for a breakdown!'  Let me explain the situation a little bit better.This &quot;boy&quot; is my best friends cousin.  One day we were at their grandmas house and thats when we first met.  Both of us automatically had radars going o<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ALL THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:15:04 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mey</dc:creator>
<category>Personal</category>
<guid>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=ALL_THE_DAYS_OF_OUR_LIVES</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Orly and I were about to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary but my groom was missing in action! How does one recite the wedding vows  without a partner? This anniversary brought out the stubborn side of my husband that I never knew.     A week before the wedding, what started out as a minor disagreement about the kids' academic performance, turned into a full-blown argument. Orly stomped out the house to cut short the stream of angry words we were hurling at each other and to cool off <br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[DEY'S ANATOMY]]></title>
<link>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=DEYS_ANATOMY</link>
<comments>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=DEYS_ANATOMY</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:44:17 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mey</dc:creator>
<category>Family</category>
<guid>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=DEYS_ANATOMY</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Having five kids to raise is no mean feat especially if it comes to discussions about the basic facts of life. When my boys' time came for the most awaited  rite of passage, it was Orly who took the reins. I was just his intern, Dey was my attending!   I remember the summer when Dey took my two eldest boys to the river together with other friends and playmates for a &quot;picnic&quot;.It was an event treated with utter secrecy where no females were allowed, Mey included. My sons came back, donning l<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[conversation]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:08:06 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lonelypetunia</dc:creator>
<category>Personal</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Me : im seeing this guy Me: well Me: not really Her : how old? Me: it's one of those &quot;complicated&quot; stuffs Her: lol Me: 29 Me: and single Me: for a freaking change Me: kaso psychotic. :)) Her: of course Her: we like em psychos Her: psycho what? Me: he's the &quot;artist&quot; type Her: nerdy psycho? o bad boy psycho? Me: moody Me: likes mind games Her: nice Me: i dont. Her: <br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[burn out]]></title>
<link>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=burn_out</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:25:46 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>iamsandino</dc:creator>
<category>Personal</category>
<guid>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=burn_out</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I'm tired of the sun, let it rain. I'm tired of Nadal always winning on clay. I'm tired of Hillary bitching about losing. I'm tired of rallies and fucking chants. I'm tired of messages to oblivion. I'm tired of watching adults act like children. I'm tired of parents dressing their daughters like 21 yr old strippers. I'm tired of the same old god damn shows revamped and hosted by a celebrity. I'm tired of american Idol and Seacrests stupidity. I'm tired of always being there when it co<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sometimes, Miracles Do Happen...]]></title>
<link>http://www.coffeespark.com/story.php?title=Sometimes_Miracles_Do_Happen----1</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:24:13 CDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mey</dc:creator>
<category>Family</category>
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<description><![CDATA[&quot;... Your son has leukemia. &quot;     For a few moments, the world stopped spinning. Shocked and utterly devastated, I clutched  the blood test result of my youngest son, Jonathan. It was a moment when words failed me. As silent tears cascaded down my cheeks, my husband dejectedly sat on the floor sobbing heart-wrenchingly. It was then that I realized it everything was real! My husband never cried publicly, not for the death of his parents, not for any quarrel we had, not for anything. But th<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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