Rain

Skin and my fingertips

fresh...

Rime blending in our warmth

Misty twinkles on brown waves of hair

Your shimmering eyes

I'm sinking and flying

Drinking raindrops of smooth, burning lips

...I'm slipping

Don't let go!

Always You

There's someone close to you

Now a fairy,

Next a man, 

Then a moon...and another..and another...

They all absorb your presence

They're drawn to your light

You infuse their minds

You fill their hearts with delight

They need your touch on their souls

They long your energy to fuel their spirit

You are their morning sun, warm and giving

You are all that to them, and I can see you don't even know it!

I wish I could travel from body to body

To dwell in each and every one of them

Always close to you

Always embraced by you

Always merged with you

The World...Every Day Smaller

I'm sure that if you're reading this blog entry you're basically just like me: spend a considerable amount of time on line, communicate with people in your life on a daily basis ...wait, what am I saying? You can do that even more often, with the help of the small device we all seem to love: our mobile phone, or simply via Internet, in an e-mail, on Facebook or Twitter and other social networks, and on top of that you can take the internet on the go, you don't just talk on that phone, you use it to stay on line. It's overwhelming how the world is getting smaller and smaller and we let ourselves carried away with it.

We take for granted our phones, our computers, the internet...we forget how it all started. We need it, I admit, and we went so far with it! Maybe too far?? Not so long  ago, in terms of history, a letter was the only way we could contact people that lived in another city, country, or even in our neighborhood. And when we sent a letter in another country, we'd have to wait for weeks for an answer. Today, we'd "freak out" if we had to wait for so long to hear from someone.

And to think it all started with the thin can telephone :) or "the lover's telephone", going through the electrical telegraph and finally to the telephone. I'm sure we all remember images like this :

or maybe this switchboard in an old movie:

And of course the old soon to be extinct all over the world pay phone:

Can you remember those times? Or do you need to ask your mother, father, grandmother or grandfather? I live still with pay phones around, but even those don't use coins like it used to be, they use cards. 

I'm excited to see where we're going with all this, split second communication... Are you? Should we jump into it head first? What do you think? 

SHE

I'm looking at her. She's beautiful, she's smart, confident and powerful. She wants something, she takes it and makes it her own. She can do anything, go anywhere, nothing and nobody can stop her. She feels her fears, she faces the terror. She wins, she loses... but even when she loses, she finds something to gain in her loss. So she always wins!

Can I be like her? Seems she's everything I'm not! But ...who is she?? Do I know her? Do I ?!  I should! She was born from my mind, I made her who she is. Every single thing about her comes from me: her strength, her beauty, her mind, her heart, her confidence and her boldness are all my gifts to her.

I watch her every move, she lives...through me! I guess...I know her, I see her in my mind, I feel her in my heart...she is me !! I'm all she is! 

I  AM  HER !!!

 

Being Locked Out of Twitter

Last night I had such a scare. It was late, I was logged in with HootSuite as usual. Suddenly, no more tweets coming. The strange thing is one of the columns was still refreshing, one of my Twitter lists. But the rest, just this: "The Twitter credentials are not valid" or something close. Also advice to update my password in HootSuite if I've recently changed my Twitter pass. But I hadn't done that. So...what the hell was happening? I try to login again, same result.

I got on Twitter's web page to login: username and password not valid. Suddenly I got scared! What had happened? Was my account hacked?? And who in the world would want to hack my account, for what?! I try with Echofon, same, I try with Twhirl, same. At this point I was imagining someone starting to tweet from my account, making sick jokes to my friends or sending spam.


Turned to Twitter's support, letting them know about the situation, and I was still scared. What if they answered too late??? Meanwhile I was checking and refreshing my Twitter page over and over. I was scared of seeing tweets that weren't mine. I know it happened before. A friend's account was hacked a while a go. The hacker tweeted as my friend's mother, supposedly letting us know that she had died in a car crash! SICK!!! Of course, it was just a joke, but such a cruel twisted one!

Checked my mail, and found the reply from Twitter, but surprise, not only that. It seems around the time they locked me out, they also sent me a warning to change my password:

"Due to concern that your account may have been compromised in a phishing attack that took place off-Twitter, your password was reset. Please create a new password by opening this link in your browser" and the link followed. I did it and immediately I was back in!

I have to say this was one of the scariest hours on the web for me! Ha, ha, ha! And I have no idea how it could have happened, I'm very careful with the apps I allow access to my account. BTW, I revoked access to all of them, the smart thing to do after this. I'll let back in the ones I trust :p

In the morning I was so relieved to see I could still log in and that nobody had tweeted while I was sleeping! All I can say, you can never be too careful with this! Be careful people, the web is full of wonders, but also of crazy sick people that have nothing better to do that mess with your mind and your web identity!