July 15, 2003

  • Turn, turn, turn ...


    To everything there is a season.  Yesterday, I wrote about how much I dislike change.  And yet, today, my site has a new look.  Of course, it's been almost a year since the last time my site got a make-over so I don't think I've rushed into anything.  Many, many thank you's to TinaCantrell for designing this page.  I think she did a beautiful job. 


    No one can wear a mask for long.  Seneca


    I have for some time enjoyed the benefit of several seanmeister codes that didn't appear in the skin version of my site look.  You may notice that (at least for now) my SIR list is public.  I was asked after I blogged about how very impressed I am with the quality of your work to please share who I was talking about.  I am convinced that the best of the best of Xanga can be found through my SIR.  You guys are simply wonderful wordsmiths.  Thanks to seanmeister, my list is alphabetized.  Isn't that fabulous?  It does my little obsessive compusive heart all kinds of good to see that kind of order around here. 


    Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.  W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

    The inspiration for the new look is a blog I wrote a couple weeks ago, Unmasking on the Internet.  Realizing that there may be a few people out there who missed it has caused me to take notice that I need to spend some time updating the links to previous blogs.  A quick check has revealed to me that in the past 8 weeks I've gained 30 new subscribers.  (I had to get that in here quickly before Xanga deletes all you annonymous ones, because then the numbers will be less impressive.)  Not that I'm egotistical or anything . . .  okay, yes I am.  LOL.  But even if I weren't, for those of you who are new to the site, the links to previous blogs will give you a tour of a few of the high points of my time here on Xanga.  These aren't necessarily the blogs with the most comments or eprops, but I think they will be the ones that reveal the most about who I am and how I think.  Over the next few days, I'll be changing those links. 


    'If a person were to try stripping the disguises from actors while they play a scene upon stage, showing to the audience their real looks and the faces they were born with, would not such a one spoil the whole play ? And would not the spectators think he deserved to be driven out of the theatre with brickbats, as a drunken disturber ?... Now what else is the whole life of mortals but a sort of comedy, in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each one his part, until the manager waves them off the stage ? Moreover, this manager frequently bids the same actor to go back in a different costume, so that he who has but lately played the king in scarlet now acts the flunkey in patched clothes. Thus all things are presented by shadows.'
    Erasmus, The Praise of Folly

    And one more quote related to mask wearing just because I find it to be funny ...


    Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.  Oscar Levant

Comments (33)

  • lovely new look!

  • I like the new design and IL ook forward to roaming through your SIR's. Have a great day!

  • Love the new look.  Very classy page for a very classy lady.   Love the mask quotes too...especially the last one.

  • I changed COLORS on mine.....

  • This is beautiful. I love it.

  • Woo...  you look pretty exotic while you are unmasking!   I *LOVE* that last quote.  In a hurry, have to come back when I can absorb them all.  Have a GREAT day!

  • It looks lovely...I especially like the masks in the header.

  • Thanks for the list of sites you read. Talk about increasing my to-do list exponentially! :) I have a question for you -- As a homeschooler, how do you find time to write so much and not feel like you are neglecting your children? It's all I can do to whip off a half-assed blog entry here and there. Not only do you have a lot of output, your posts are always so polished and well written.

  • Wow... I didnt recgonize you there for a moment... lovely!!!

  • You site looks AWESOME!  I love the color scheme!  Great job!

    I've been meaning to tell you that your profile picture reminds me of an angel!  Every time I see it I can't help but smile, it's so heavenly.   

  • AbFab new look Terry, Dahhhling! 'Ever so stylish, and distinctive-- just like you and your writing... it is a delight and inspiration to stand back and watch your site's evolution just from the short time I've been a subscriber. Although I don't comment as much (especially lately while I'm sorting myself out), I read you constantly, and this time, instead of just silently appreciating your efforts, I felt I oughtta say how I felt... you know?

    smoocheroonies to ya!

  • Pretty design...have to scroll sideways to read you though, guess my monitor isn't set where everyone else's is. I can't wait to have MY anons gone, that's bugged me since the stalker days!

  • 1 reading you was always a wonderful experience and now it is much more so with the new look. you know it is almost like opening a special hard-bound book?

    2 now i have my work cut our for me: i need to go down that SIR of yours and discover other good writers (just what i was wishing for). thank you for sharing.

    3 i can't believe i'm in that list.

    4 i thought i was the only one reading zen master! too bad he has not been updating.

  • I am so glad you like it!!!

    I am a happy camper!!!

    Love ya

    tina

  • Ooooooh. I like the new look. Mike

  • This is a gorgeous new look.  I will look forward to perusing some of your older material, as I was late in arriving to this great place!

  • I like! It's ~legible~! I hate those people with backgrounds where you can't make out the text against whatever picture they've plopped there.

  • WOW!!  Love the new look!!  Very Glamorous!! (sp?) Tina did a great job!!  Now I just need her to do one for me ......

  • I still think my general mask type quote is the following, (and no, I don't remember who said it)

    "Inside every fat person is a thin person screaming to get out, who can usually be quickly sedated with a nice piece of chocolate."

  • Love the new graphics, but I liked the old one, too.  They have two different feelings; I suppose reflecting different dimensions to your personality? 

    I am confused in that I thought your SIR list was previously displayed...because I remember thinking how mind-boggling long it was!  I do love the look of an alphabetized list, though.

    In reading today's blog I was impressed at how you were able to locate just the perfect quotes (a feat that is not particular to just this entry for you).  So here's an OCD question for you:  How do you organize your quotes?  I like to "collect" quotes, but have not figured out a way to catalog them. 

    Have you read The Moon and Sixpence?  Based on that quote alone, I am interested in reading it!

  • Great new look I have to visit sean to get some of those scripts. I want my SIR's alphabetized too!

  • omg it's gorgeous! I love the brown/gold combination. Ruff!

  • Wow.. love the new look , goes with your site and what you are writing very well.

  • I am back, rereading... I don't think the SIR's in order is compulsive at all... simply an orderly aid for the visually impaired, LOL!!  I don't know HOW much time I have wasted scanning that list for a particular person and overlooked and overlooked them ~ not anymore, I have a tool!

  • *pRoPpiEez* fo yEw.. hiT mEe baCk? vv

  • "AMEN!  My husband is like you, if all a person were going on was the way his traits fit with John Gray's overgeneralizations - they'd believe him to be a woman.  I on the other hand am about an equal mix - but I'm hardly a sexless androgyn!  That whole movement just irritates me.  (And I think it encourages laziness.  Why get to really KNOW people if you can interact with them based on a generic label?)  "

    Yes, exactly.  As I pointed out to another of my readres, my issue isn't so much that this stereotyping is used to define behavior--it's that it's used to predict it.  And once you start with that, you're right back in 1900, when people were sorted by looks or ethnology or bumps on their head. 

    Haven't we learned anything in the last 100 years?

    Anyway, I like the new site.  Are you familiar with Nietzsche's comments on wearing of masks?

    --Scott

  • Beautiful and well written blog! What a pleasure to come across this site

  • WOW!  Tina is amazing

  • Great New look.  I liked Your sister's site too.  I really appreciate what You add to my days.

    Love and Light

    Mara

  • Well, first of all, it's been so long since I could enter many blogs to comment. the DDoS attack on Xanga had my site frozen for days!

    Also, I love the new look of your site!

    Faith

  • o/
    God Bless - Dale

  • oooh I love your blog and your entry, and will be back..often!!  Kira

  • I commend you, Teri.  The new look, the unmasking, all of it.  You always inspire me.  Today more than ever. 

    Have you ever read The Denial of Death, by Ernest Becker?  It was a Pulitzer Prize winner.  His main theme is what it takes to unmask, to disassemble what he calls "the character lie."  That book changed my life.   And you remind me about it again, here, now. 

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