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		<title>By: nina aoki</title>
		<link>http://lazygeisha.com/2008/04/23/mirrors/#comment-6665</link>
		<dc:creator>nina aoki</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mark,

Oh I agree -- we tend to view the world thru our own perspective, and if we're a positive person or have a positive perspective - that's how we tend to see things; and vice versa.

I'm actually okay -- this had more to do with a couple of intersecting situations which have become a little clearer over the last couple of days -- but I'm just fine with where I am.

But thank you for this.  I sincerely appreciate the kind words and support!

nina</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mark,</p>
<p>Oh I agree &#8212; we tend to view the world thru our own perspective, and if we&#8217;re a positive person or have a positive perspective - that&#8217;s how we tend to see things; and vice versa.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m actually okay &#8212; this had more to do with a couple of intersecting situations which have become a little clearer over the last couple of days &#8212; but I&#8217;m just fine with where I am.</p>
<p>But thank you for this.  I sincerely appreciate the kind words and support!</p>
<p>nina</p>
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		<title>By: Mark</title>
		<link>http://lazygeisha.com/2008/04/23/mirrors/#comment-6646</link>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There is an old saying that I will likely butcher but the intent should be obvious. Every day we wake up we have a choice. We can choose to be negative or we can choose to be positive. Of course that might be harder for some due to extenuating circumstances but we all have that choice and we all have some control over out situation (again, of course there are some exceptions but I"m directing this at those who whine and complain when others are far worse off). Shrug it off girl. Don't let the negativity of others bring you down. I may have had my hydro cut off the other day and be deep in debt. Work has not lived up to it's expectations either lately but I have a beautiful son and he is healthy and happy so far be it for me to jinx that by dwelling on the negative. Keep doing what you are doing cause for every negative comment directed your way there are hundreds of nice thoughts never mentioned but trust me they are there. Just cause you choose to live your life in a positive manner don't let others jealousy or disbelief throw you off. Positive vibes have the strangest way of creeping into other peoples lives. Keep on creeping!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is an old saying that I will likely butcher but the intent should be obvious. Every day we wake up we have a choice. We can choose to be negative or we can choose to be positive. Of course that might be harder for some due to extenuating circumstances but we all have that choice and we all have some control over out situation (again, of course there are some exceptions but I&#8221;m directing this at those who whine and complain when others are far worse off). Shrug it off girl. Don&#8217;t let the negativity of others bring you down. I may have had my hydro cut off the other day and be deep in debt. Work has not lived up to it&#8217;s expectations either lately but I have a beautiful son and he is healthy and happy so far be it for me to jinx that by dwelling on the negative. Keep doing what you are doing cause for every negative comment directed your way there are hundreds of nice thoughts never mentioned but trust me they are there. Just cause you choose to live your life in a positive manner don&#8217;t let others jealousy or disbelief throw you off. Positive vibes have the strangest way of creeping into other peoples lives. Keep on creeping!!!</p>
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		<title>By: nina aoki</title>
		<link>http://lazygeisha.com/2008/04/23/mirrors/#comment-6617</link>
		<dc:creator>nina aoki</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Pegxx,

Yes -- sometimes it truly is.  It's a scary world out there sometimes.

Thanks hon,

nina</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pegxx,</p>
<p>Yes &#8212; sometimes it truly is.  It&#8217;s a scary world out there sometimes.</p>
<p>Thanks hon,</p>
<p>nina</p>
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		<title>By: Pegxx</title>
		<link>http://lazygeisha.com/2008/04/23/mirrors/#comment-6616</link>
		<dc:creator>Pegxx</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>'“A little girl and her crayons”

Suddenly today I feel very small, very much like that little girl, but still very lucky.'

I loved your six word memoir, almost wish it was my own! It's nice to feel small when it's a safe place to be small :-) I think it is something everyone needs!

Pegxx</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8216;“A little girl and her crayons”</p>
<p>Suddenly today I feel very small, very much like that little girl, but still very lucky.&#8217;</p>
<p>I loved your six word memoir, almost wish it was my own! It&#8217;s nice to feel small when it&#8217;s a safe place to be small :-) I think it is something everyone needs!</p>
<p>Pegxx</p>
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		<title>By: nina aoki</title>
		<link>http://lazygeisha.com/2008/04/23/mirrors/#comment-6607</link>
		<dc:creator>nina aoki</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Heavenly,

As always your words make me smile and give me many warm feelings.  It always means something special coming from you too.

Thank you sweetie - you're always in my thoughts.

Mwah!

nina</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Heavenly,</p>
<p>As always your words make me smile and give me many warm feelings.  It always means something special coming from you too.</p>
<p>Thank you sweetie - you&#8217;re always in my thoughts.</p>
<p>Mwah!</p>
<p>nina</p>
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		<title>By: nina aoki</title>
		<link>http://lazygeisha.com/2008/04/23/mirrors/#comment-6606</link>
		<dc:creator>nina aoki</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Adam,

The short answer for this is no - they do not, and I sincerely appreciate you sharing your own thoughts and perspective on all of this and for your support.

As I said in a comment above - I'm not so preoccupied with what people think of me or my blog or my writing anymore.  Much of what I've been writing over the last few weeks was me coming to terms with all of that and setting myself free.

I think on that point I'm doing pretty good.  ;)

Thanks so much sweetheart,

nina</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Adam,</p>
<p>The short answer for this is no - they do not, and I sincerely appreciate you sharing your own thoughts and perspective on all of this and for your support.</p>
<p>As I said in a comment above - I&#8217;m not so preoccupied with what people think of me or my blog or my writing anymore.  Much of what I&#8217;ve been writing over the last few weeks was me coming to terms with all of that and setting myself free.</p>
<p>I think on that point I&#8217;m doing pretty good.  ;)</p>
<p>Thanks so much sweetheart,</p>
<p>nina</p>
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		<title>By: No Rules &#124; lazy geisha</title>
		<link>http://lazygeisha.com/2008/04/23/mirrors/#comment-6598</link>
		<dc:creator>No Rules &#124; lazy geisha</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] if I were to believe half of what I read&#8230; but then again&#8230; we&#8217;ve already crossed that bridge, haven&#8217;t [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Heavenly Zhao</title>
		<link>http://lazygeisha.com/2008/04/23/mirrors/#comment-6594</link>
		<dc:creator>Heavenly Zhao</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Before my big sister mentioned you, I had a dim view of blogs in general. My thinking was that most blogs were just the product of a lot of selfish overindulgent people that like to rant.

Your blog was really one of the few in my experience to bring something informative about issues that matter to me. 

 It mystifies me why some people choose to ignore that rather than waste your talents participating in juvelilia.

 Screw them. 

 Heavenly</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Before my big sister mentioned you, I had a dim view of blogs in general. My thinking was that most blogs were just the product of a lot of selfish overindulgent people that like to rant.</p>
<p>Your blog was really one of the few in my experience to bring something informative about issues that matter to me. </p>
<p> It mystifies me why some people choose to ignore that rather than waste your talents participating in juvelilia.</p>
<p> Screw them. </p>
<p> Heavenly</p>
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		<title>By: Adam Narcross</title>
		<link>http://lazygeisha.com/2008/04/23/mirrors/#comment-6593</link>
		<dc:creator>Adam Narcross</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Does any of these negative people pay your bills? Pay your insurances? Do they contributer to your mortgage becoming satisfied? Are these individuals there to clean up or assist when the going gets rough?

  If not, then how do they feel qualified to direct the method, which you choose to express yourself?

  I draw and paint because I love doing it and its fun even when its hard. But sometimes better established artists, whom have never so much as offered to advance my early education in art, strangely feel they are in a position to critique my efforts AFTER I've achieved some level of modest success.

 I feel that you wanted to produce a blog that leans toward the positive. I perceive the "high road" element you take because its too easy and too simplistic to equate truth with neagtive melodrama. 

  You offer your readers a challenge that helps us discover positive sides of ourselves we sometimes forget in the midst of populist misery. 

 When I'm reading scripts for the graphic novel, I'm deeply impressed at the girl's insight that recognizes that its not just a sex story, but a real human examination of a couple's growth. 

  Only a complete fool would imagine that the lives of adults are conflict free based on their flawed interpretation of what you choose not to constantly specify in your blog.

  A lot of people in my inner party remain very proud of you.

   To Yoriki, Michy, Susannah and Heavenly, and all the LSD guys you write a basic relative truth. And that truth is that in the end life, love and our place in this world has its ups and downs and its always worth putting in the work to be better persons however flawed we may be.

  You just keep doing what you do, as you feel best to do.

  Adam</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Does any of these negative people pay your bills? Pay your insurances? Do they contributer to your mortgage becoming satisfied? Are these individuals there to clean up or assist when the going gets rough?</p>
<p>  If not, then how do they feel qualified to direct the method, which you choose to express yourself?</p>
<p>  I draw and paint because I love doing it and its fun even when its hard. But sometimes better established artists, whom have never so much as offered to advance my early education in art, strangely feel they are in a position to critique my efforts AFTER I&#8217;ve achieved some level of modest success.</p>
<p> I feel that you wanted to produce a blog that leans toward the positive. I perceive the &#8220;high road&#8221; element you take because its too easy and too simplistic to equate truth with neagtive melodrama. </p>
<p>  You offer your readers a challenge that helps us discover positive sides of ourselves we sometimes forget in the midst of populist misery. </p>
<p> When I&#8217;m reading scripts for the graphic novel, I&#8217;m deeply impressed at the girl&#8217;s insight that recognizes that its not just a sex story, but a real human examination of a couple&#8217;s growth. </p>
<p>  Only a complete fool would imagine that the lives of adults are conflict free based on their flawed interpretation of what you choose not to constantly specify in your blog.</p>
<p>  A lot of people in my inner party remain very proud of you.</p>
<p>   To Yoriki, Michy, Susannah and Heavenly, and all the LSD guys you write a basic relative truth. And that truth is that in the end life, love and our place in this world has its ups and downs and its always worth putting in the work to be better persons however flawed we may be.</p>
<p>  You just keep doing what you do, as you feel best to do.</p>
<p>  Adam</p>
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		<title>By: nina aoki</title>
		<link>http://lazygeisha.com/2008/04/23/mirrors/#comment-6592</link>
		<dc:creator>nina aoki</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>lazy ichi, philosopher,

Babe - I'm right there with you.  It took me some time to get there, but I have.

No, today was much more about finally having a circle completed and having a layer of obfuscation lifted.  But I'm good sensei.  :razz:

lmao!

Mwah!

nina</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>lazy ichi, philosopher,</p>
<p>Babe - I&#8217;m right there with you.  It took me some time to get there, but I have.</p>
<p>No, today was much more about finally having a circle completed and having a layer of obfuscation lifted.  But I&#8217;m good sensei.  :razz:</p>
<p>lmao!</p>
<p>Mwah!</p>
<p>nina</p>
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		<title>By: lazy ichi, philosopher</title>
		<link>http://lazygeisha.com/2008/04/23/mirrors/#comment-6589</link>
		<dc:creator>lazy ichi, philosopher</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, you know my motto Grasshopper...
&lt;i&gt;Don't know, don't care, don't give a damn!&lt;/i&gt; 

Seriously!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, you know my motto Grasshopper&#8230;<br />
<i>Don&#8217;t know, don&#8217;t care, don&#8217;t give a damn!</i> </p>
<p>Seriously!</p>
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		<title>By: nina aoki</title>
		<link>http://lazygeisha.com/2008/04/23/mirrors/#comment-6588</link>
		<dc:creator>nina aoki</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Terry,

Thank you for this -- I'm actually okay and am very comfortable in my own skin and with how and what I choose to write and share.

Today was about finding something out, discovering a secret, a very dark secret, about someone who once put me and my blog in their crosshairs and how I felt about all of that upon learning of this secret today.

But I do thank you for your kind words and support.  It means the world to me.

Mwah!

nina</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Terry,</p>
<p>Thank you for this &#8212; I&#8217;m actually okay and am very comfortable in my own skin and with how and what I choose to write and share.</p>
<p>Today was about finding something out, discovering a secret, a very dark secret, about someone who once put me and my blog in their crosshairs and how I felt about all of that upon learning of this secret today.</p>
<p>But I do thank you for your kind words and support.  It means the world to me.</p>
<p>Mwah!</p>
<p>nina</p>
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		<title>By: Terry</title>
		<link>http://lazygeisha.com/2008/04/23/mirrors/#comment-6587</link>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I so agree with Neaya &#38; hapes! Where do people get off telling you what you should or shouldn't write? You should write what YOU want, and NOT what you don't want. If they want to read something other than what you write, all they have to do is look at other blogs til they find what they want. Shouldn't take long. The hard part is finding one like yours. Mature, sensual, intelligent, erotic, honest, engaging. Just keep doing what it is you want to do. That's why we love you.

Terry</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I so agree with Neaya &amp; hapes! Where do people get off telling you what you should or shouldn&#8217;t write? You should write what YOU want, and NOT what you don&#8217;t want. If they want to read something other than what you write, all they have to do is look at other blogs til they find what they want. Shouldn&#8217;t take long. The hard part is finding one like yours. Mature, sensual, intelligent, erotic, honest, engaging. Just keep doing what it is you want to do. That&#8217;s why we love you.</p>
<p>Terry</p>
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		<title>By: nina aoki</title>
		<link>http://lazygeisha.com/2008/04/23/mirrors/#comment-6578</link>
		<dc:creator>nina aoki</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hapes,

I would tend to agree with that, and thank you as well.

nina</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hapes,</p>
<p>I would tend to agree with that, and thank you as well.</p>
<p>nina</p>
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		<title>By: nina aoki</title>
		<link>http://lazygeisha.com/2008/04/23/mirrors/#comment-6577</link>
		<dc:creator>nina aoki</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Neaya,

There's a lot I want to say - but a lot I don't want to say here.  So, let me simply just say thank you.

Mwah!

nina</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Neaya,</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a lot I want to say - but a lot I don&#8217;t want to say here.  So, let me simply just say thank you.</p>
<p>Mwah!</p>
<p>nina</p>
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		<title>By: hapes</title>
		<link>http://lazygeisha.com/2008/04/23/mirrors/#comment-6575</link>
		<dc:creator>hapes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I sense 'load of crap'.  Your blog, write what you want, to hell with anyone else.  Period.  Maybe I'm being a little inconsiderate in my comment, but I stand by the theory, if not the practice.  This is your blog, if you want to write about how you fuck dead chickens while dressed in a batman suit, dangling from light poles, hey, go ahead.  Be aware that you may be arrested for necro-beastiality, and WOW that's creepy, but go ahead!

Whether someone thinks you aren't a good writer, or don't really reflect reality, well, then, THEY should get a blog.  And THEY can write about fucking dead chickens, etc, and how hard it is to find light poles.

You, keep writing about the happy place.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I sense &#8216;load of crap&#8217;.  Your blog, write what you want, to hell with anyone else.  Period.  Maybe I&#8217;m being a little inconsiderate in my comment, but I stand by the theory, if not the practice.  This is your blog, if you want to write about how you fuck dead chickens while dressed in a batman suit, dangling from light poles, hey, go ahead.  Be aware that you may be arrested for necro-beastiality, and WOW that&#8217;s creepy, but go ahead!</p>
<p>Whether someone thinks you aren&#8217;t a good writer, or don&#8217;t really reflect reality, well, then, THEY should get a blog.  And THEY can write about fucking dead chickens, etc, and how hard it is to find light poles.</p>
<p>You, keep writing about the happy place.</p>
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		<title>By: Neaya</title>
		<link>http://lazygeisha.com/2008/04/23/mirrors/#comment-6573</link>
		<dc:creator>Neaya</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>"how could anything I wrote possibly be true because I never wrote about the bad stuff"

Okay Nina,
This one has hit too close to home! That is the only real crap that I have heard about our blog. For me I have said to the masses that I share what I want to &#38; what I feel to "ME" is worth sharing, Daddy &#38; I disagree just like any body else but those times are few &#38; far between, and we don't dwell on the negative so when it's over it's over! Why continue to give life to it by writing about it, telling people (that it doesn't make or break one way or the other) about it &#38; stir it back up when for us it's a dead issue? So if people think I'm not telling the truth because I don't give them a blow by blow account of every lil tiff daddy &#38; I have so be it! My question is Who do they think they are that they feel entitled to such information? Our families don't even know our business so why the hell would I go &#38; pour it all out for a bunch of nameless faceless strangers? They don't pay not a single bill in my house! &#38; We know we are Blessed, Fortunte, Lucky, whatever you want to call it to have each other &#38; the life we have built, fought for &#38; worked for, I'm thankful for every bit of it! Just because I don't report everytime I whipe my ass that doesn't mean that I don't use the bathroom! "Misery Loves Company" &#38; that's just not the kind of company I care to keep! People read two paragraphs of your life that deosn't even equal 5 minutes in real time &#38; think the know something about you! Okay I'm done!
Sorry for the ramble,
Keep Your Head Up!
Huggs, Love, &#38; Smooches
Neaya</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;how could anything I wrote possibly be true because I never wrote about the bad stuff&#8221;</p>
<p>Okay Nina,<br />
This one has hit too close to home! That is the only real crap that I have heard about our blog. For me I have said to the masses that I share what I want to &amp; what I feel to &#8220;ME&#8221; is worth sharing, Daddy &amp; I disagree just like any body else but those times are few &amp; far between, and we don&#8217;t dwell on the negative so when it&#8217;s over it&#8217;s over! Why continue to give life to it by writing about it, telling people (that it doesn&#8217;t make or break one way or the other) about it &amp; stir it back up when for us it&#8217;s a dead issue? So if people think I&#8217;m not telling the truth because I don&#8217;t give them a blow by blow account of every lil tiff daddy &amp; I have so be it! My question is Who do they think they are that they feel entitled to such information? Our families don&#8217;t even know our business so why the hell would I go &amp; pour it all out for a bunch of nameless faceless strangers? They don&#8217;t pay not a single bill in my house! &amp; We know we are Blessed, Fortunte, Lucky, whatever you want to call it to have each other &amp; the life we have built, fought for &amp; worked for, I&#8217;m thankful for every bit of it! Just because I don&#8217;t report everytime I whipe my ass that doesn&#8217;t mean that I don&#8217;t use the bathroom! &#8220;Misery Loves Company&#8221; &amp; that&#8217;s just not the kind of company I care to keep! People read two paragraphs of your life that deosn&#8217;t even equal 5 minutes in real time &amp; think the know something about you! Okay I&#8217;m done!<br />
Sorry for the ramble,<br />
Keep Your Head Up!<br />
Huggs, Love, &amp; Smooches<br />
Neaya</p>
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