musings

In contrast with ramblings, which carry a slightly more negative connotation, musings are a string of thoughts characterized more by their contemplative nature than by their strung-together quality. They are everywhere in the blogosphere because they are valuable yet egalitarian commodities; they can be priceless, but everyone can have a piece of them.

They are meditations or reflections on any subject, from the sociopolitical and the confessional, to the sacred and the profane. They can be a conscious decision to let your stream of thoughts flow, or inadvertent mental wanderings that transport you to the most unexpected places.

Musings have been around as long as the mind has, but they were made particularly popular through the stream of consciousness mode in modernist literature, by writers such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner. Yet this flowing form of expression is far from frozen in the past; it has survived modernism and reflected, contemplated and meditated itself into postmodern literature, surfacing in the writings of Bret Easton Ellis and Jonathan Safran Foer, among others. Rest assured, people will continue to muse for years to come.

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• The Film Geek’s Worst Films of 2009!!!

  
  MnDialog — Authority: 115
  Hello everyone and welcome to New Year’s weekend.  2009 has come to an end, so you know what that means.  End of year lists!  Now, there are still two movies I need to see (THE LOVELY BONES and CRAZY HEART) before I post my best of the year.  That’ll be in a couple of weeks.  But I will share with you the ...
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• What happened to 2009?

  
  Rumours of Angels? — Authority: 120
  I really liked this image by Jonny Baker (on Flickr) . I thought it was a good picture as we move from the old year into the new. We don’t really know what the new year holds for us... it has no clear shape or form as yet ... except perhaps in our heads where we have hopes and dreams...and expectations. The ...
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• Cleanse

  
  Swirly Girl — Authority: 126
  [Taken at the Meiji-jingu Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, 2005.] Before entering a temple in Japan, visitors stop by a chozuya, a small trough of water that serves to "cleanse and purify a persons hands and mouth so that they can give offerings and prayers with a clean body and mind."  There are many such spots of repose ...
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• BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition: CIA chief confirms Afghan deaths

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 474
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition , available at BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition . The CIA chief confirms seven officers - reportedly including a mother-of-three who was station chief - were killed in Afghanistan.
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• NYT > World: Briton Kidnapped in 2007 Is Freed in Iraq

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 474
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . Peter Moore was preparing to return to Britain Thursday as new questions emerged about where he had been held and how he had managed to survive.
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• NYT > World: C.I.A. Confirms 7 of Its Employees Were Killed in Afghanistan

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 474
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . The suicide bomber who killed them wore an Afghan National Army uniform, according to NATO officials.
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• NYT > World: Protesters Gather on Gaza-Israel Border

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 474
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . Hundreds of demonstrators gathered on both sides of the Israeli-Gazan border to mark a year since Israel’s three-week war in Gaza.
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• NYT > World: Nigerian May Have Used Course in Yemen as Cover

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 474
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . The suspected airplane bomber used a school as a pretext to legally reenter Yemen after being recruited by Al Qaeda, the school’s director believes.
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• NYT > World: Afghans Charge Second Case of Civilian Casualties

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 474
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . Afghan government and NATO officials are investigating reports that seven civilians were killed in Helmand Province in a NATO missile strike.
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• Charitable giving. American Express is Scrooge.

  
  Fred Klonsky's blog — Authority: 135
  While we make charitable contributions throughout the year, today is the day we sit down and figure out how much and to which groups we’re going to give. Of course, one reason is that this is the tax deadline. But it really is just a ritual. The tax benefit to us is pretty small. It’s just a reminder, like ...
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• End of Year Wrap Up

  
  Private Mars Rocket — Authority: 124
  Consider this a laundry list of things on my mind at the years end. 1) Much has been made about how anti-militaristic the plot is in the movie Avatar . Im definitely not anti-military (I did serve in the military, after all) but I will say anytime somebody says "victory through shock and awe" they are cruisin for a ...
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• Top Ten Things That Im Looking Forward To Seeing In 2010

  
  The Seventh Sense — Authority: 439
  (10)  The media trying to tear down some icon, and failing miserably.  "Sully" Sullenberg is my guess. (9)  Sarah Palin trying to be taken seriously as a political thinker now that shes had some time to crack a few books on the current issues of the day. (8)  The 2004 Red Sox.  Not the same guys of ...
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• New Years Eve musings

  
  Somerset Seasons — Authority: 127
  the last day of 2009 is drawing to a close. Night has fallen, its dark outside, and its getting really cold out there now. Ive been out with a warm supper for the hens, and extra straw, and now the henhouse has fallen silent as they have snuggled down into the sweet smelling straw, little heads tucked under wings, to ...
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• BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition: Thousands prepare to see in 2010

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 474
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition , available at BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition . Hundreds of thousands of revellers around the UK are expected to gather in temperatures close to freezing to see in the new year.
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• Kings And Chronicles, 2009 Edition

  
  Goldfish And Clowns — Authority: 429
  I heard a Bible teacher once comment that the two books of Samuel and Kings are history written from man’s viewpoint while Chronicles is history written from God’s viewpoint. For example, consider how King David is remembered in each. In Samuel and right into Kings it’s tabloid fodder galore. You get it all: ...
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• BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition: Degas painting stolen from museum

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 474
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition , available at BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition . An artwork by Impressionist painter Edgar Degas is stolen from a museum in Marseilles, local authorities have said.
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• So Long 2009 and So Long Daily Posting!!!

  
  Dominic "The Hodge" Hodgson — Authority: 127
  Well… what a year… I had a post the other day going through some of the things thats happened so I won’t reiterate, what I will do however is just say Thanks for reading, I’m not going to let the site gather dust by any means but I will certainly be glad tomorrow when I don’t have to feel forced to be ...
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• Top Ten Things of 2009 That I Would Like NOT To See in 2010 Thankyouverymuch

  
  The Seventh Sense — Authority: 439
  (10)  People getting rewarded for doing bad jobs .  Im talking mainly Wall Street executives and people who run their company into the ground, then get bailed out by taxpayers, and then get huge bonuses as part of their executive compensation package (9)  People who cannot deal with the fact that Obama is ...
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• Happy new year, dear readers and friends!

  
  tonyocruz.com — Authority: 109
  Thank you dear readers and friends for your support last 2009. I look forward to be with you too this 2010. I look up to you for inspiration (see picture, hehe).I also started writing for AsianCorrespondent.com last 2009 on a blog I titled Bullet Points, hoping to give the international audience my take on what’s ...
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• I turned 21

  
  SMOKE — Authority: 122
  This year I turned 21. In a hurry, I left home, emancipated. And didn’t come home as anticipated. I saw the day lose its sun, and saw in it a metaphor a way of understanding what everything else stood for. I fell in love and had my heart torn to bits I lost my balance, my serenity, my wits. I went looking ...
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