Viki Ackland Tick tock
This is life. Constant change. Motion. Movement. Love. Love lost. Hope and fear followed by more hope and fear. Being swept in by another person just to be shoved away in the next breath. Total realization followed by unreasonable doubt. Welcome to life. Some say it is too short, I say it is long.
Viki Ackland Oblongroom - a poem
Viki Ackland The not quite spring yet blues
I am sure those closest to me are getting sick of my pissy moods, unpredictable disappearing acts and woe is me darkness. But because I am in this state of mind called depression I can only think fuck you if you do not like it.
Viki Ackland A vegan in a butcher shop
There is an old saying that humans are creatures of habit. We begin anew often and while it seems very difficult and foreign at the start we gradually start to breath again, taking in the scenery for what it is worth.
Viki Ackland THE Valentine's Day Retail Rip-off
In Ancient Rome, February 14th was a holiday to honour Juno, Queen of the Roman Gods and Goddesses. The Feast of Lupercalia started the next day.
Viki Ackland Blue Monday
It is said that Monday, January 21st is the most depressing day of this New Year. I am not sure how or why these sentiments came into being but alas we live in a world where we must label and analyze everything in front of us, instead of just living the moment and knowing ourselves what is the truth. The truth is all relative to the person.
Viki Ackland Changing it up
While I do not believe in resolutions pertaining to a new year I do believe that it is refreshing to start a new year, if the previous year was not the best. Resolutions to do with personal growth should be a year round thing, and I do not buy into anything that was written or passed down by man.
Viki Ackland Cycles in Life
I believe for some people, perhaps of a certain free spirited temperament or creative personality, that life is largely ruled by cycles, which can be measured in years. For me the cycle is 5-6 years, after which I long for a change of scenery, different faces and a change of pace.
Viki Ackland Edible Honey Powder
I have a jar of edible honey powder, Kama sutra, well traveled, came with a fine feather brush those many years ago when I bought it.
Viki Ackland Put a sock in it
I wonder where certain phrases originate from often. Idioms, a natural way of speaking. We all repeat and talk the talk passed down to us from generation to generation. I often laugh aloud when I just blurt out something that seems appropriate when afterwards I wonder what the hell it even means. So I started looking things up obsessively and vowed to never utter idioms unless I know the meaning.
Viki Ackland Poor Ellen
I heard on BT this morning that Ellen Degeneres had a breakdown on her show regarding a dog that she had adopted then given away to her hairdresser, apparently it violated a contract and they took it away and she is quite outraged about it.
Viki Ackland Poor Ellen
I heard on BT this morning that Ellen Degeneres had a breakdown on her show regarding a dog that she had adopted then given away to her hairdresser, apparently it violated a contract and they took it away and she is quite outraged about it.
Viki Ackland A call to all
I call on all free thinking people to stop and really look around at what this world has become, not is becoming.
Viki Ackland Quoting Marianne Williamson
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Viki Ackland Choices
I understand life is about choices. Easy to say when we live in a country where we are allotted that freedom. Easy to think our small dilemmas are noteworthy. Whether we should get a decaf soy latte or a short espresso.
Viki Ackland I have a confession
I have a crush on the channel 23 weatherman. I recall that fateful day years ago when I awoke one morning, wanting to see what the weather for the weekend would be,
Viki Ackland Job hunting is lonely in the big city
I have always worked. That may not seem like much of a testament, but perhaps if you knew my upbringing and life it is a feat of sorts to be proud of. I had a child as a teenager and while I did have moments where I needed a bit of help with daycare and school, for the most part I was self sufficient.
Viki Ackland Is it me or are most men really just stupid?
I go through phases where I think perhaps I am just too picky; too opinioned, too demanding and my expectations are too high. In reality my expectations are pretty basic, I want to be treated with respect and I do not feel I need to engage in sex talk with a stranger in order to procure a date.
Viki Ackland Tidal Wave
There is no ocean of love
no tidal wave to wash clean the stain
Viki Ackland In memory of Fluffer My old cat passed a month back … he was twenty so I am not sure why I was, and still am, surprised that it happened. I guess in people years his almost 20 years old put him over 100. I still expect him to walk into the room and yell at me for food, or follow me around hollering when I get the brush out, or lick my foot or hand if it accidentally dangled near his reach.
Viki Ackland Our hypocritical world
I believe we should love and be kinder to our planet. I think we should get rid of plastics and drive less and use energy efficient products. I have believed all this for years, because it is the right thing to do, not because Al Gore presented us with half truths, partial
Viki Ackland Shiny Things
I have come to realize that humans are not unlike birdies in that we are drawn to and seem to like shiny things. We want to buy them up and take them to our nest, much like birds and other small animals do.
Viki Ackland Aging sucks
Whoever said aging is a lovely thing to be approached with good health and attitude obviously did not inherit there father’s aching bones, bent spine and bursitis hips. Now I have as good of an attitude as anyone.
Viki Ackland A world of hate
Why does it seem, that extremist fanatic religious sects hate women so much? They use the guise of religion to mask an intense insecurity and fear of women, who are systematically killed in barbaric stoning rituals or executed by firing squads.
Viki Ackland Behind the looking glass
Why does there appear to be an increase in domestic violence? I suppose the answer to that is simple, it has really only been against the law to beat one’s wife the last hundred years. People’s behavior is shaped by the laws and the sediments that the society they live in creates.
Viki Ackland Sunday (a poem)
Viki Ackland Free Paris, smurfs are real
The uproar and media attention regarding the impending jail sentence of Paris Hilton for driving with a suspended license, which was suspended because of drunk driving is beyond my comprehension.
Viki Ackland 2012, the magic year?
I find it hard to completely discount the 2012 as being propagated by some radical fanatics when you take into account the various goings on in the world. It is not inconceivable there could be a major change that year.
Viki Ackland Why are men so … pathetic?
I was watching the news today and a male in his thirties scoped out a hospital while there earlier in the day and went back specifically to target and sexually attack a ninety four year old woman. Yes you heard me correctly.
Viki Ackland Fashionable to kill
The city, Guatemala. Guatemala's homicide rate is among the highest in Latin America, one of the most violent regions in the world. Where it is fashionable and treated with total indifference to kill women.
Viki Ackland White lumps and things
Aging is a funny thing, not as in Chris Rock doing his stand up about rap music funny, but as in kill me now funny.
Viki Ackland What about me?
I seldom write about anything personal, perhaps because I am a private person, and more importantly I would rather write about the many issues in the world that occupy my thoughts. Ranting and complaining are two entirely different things.
Viki Ackland The Atheist Tale
As assistant editor and writer I know the rules most site regarding overtly religious articles and ramblings, yet I question why? It is an idea that any discussion regarding religion will be to criticize one person's beliefs in favor of ones own. Hence not wanting to offend others makes this rule make perfect sense.
Viki Ackland She Women Man Haters Club
A good friend of mine, who is male, recently called me “Viki, testicle destroyer Ackland.” After I finished giggling and sending more silly MSN faces to show my amusement I realized that he really did see me that way, as someone who detests men. And no wonder. We used to date and that morphed into a friendship of a platonic nature.
Viki Ackland Running backwards, full speed
One need only watch TV commercials with an open mind to see how absolutely ridiculous our culture has become. In particular ads regarding eating or rather stuffing our faces with chemical laden unhealthy fatty foods.
Viki Ackland Brainwashed
I believe with all my heart that the majority of the population is completely brainwashed and live their lives doing as they are told and what is expected of them as dictated by the masses. But who are the masses?
Viki Ackland Corporations are evil
All these Profiteers are guilty of committing atrocities (war crimes, torture, toxic dumping and stifling freedom of speech) against mankind in the name of Greed.
Viki Ackland Are we fighting a losing battle?
I was watching a show about sex in the wild life, matter of fact it was a marathon and I found myself appalled and fascinated by hours and hours of animal rites, passages and oddities. From cross dressing to amorphadites, the wild kingdom has it all. But what I found fascinating in particular about Chimps, of which we share a 99% DNA commonality.
Viki Ackland Survey
I think meat eaters seem to be not getting where the meat they are enjoying is coming from. Ignorance is bliss they say. If it is not looking at you and you were not actually the one slitting its throat I guess someone has to eat it, I mean it’s already dead, packaged and seasoned.
Viki Ackland Why I cannot tolerate old movies (and old music)
Well to start with Old Movies, whenever I watch one all I can think is that anyone really could have been in the movies and a star back then, the prerequisite being only the ability to read, having all your own teeth and being moderately attractive, have a voice that was considered pleasing
Viki Ackland How did we evolve into this unethical race of meat eaters?
The last thing I want to become is one of these preachy vegans, but then I realized I was a preachy vegetarian and so I must be true to myself. I find I feel troubled lately that I ever ate meat at all, or was not open to being vegan.
Viki Ackland Poetry
Viki Ackland Frail Ego of Man
As any of you who have been following the mud slinging by Donald Trump in the direction of Rosie O’Donnell over her making fun of him on the VIEW, you can clearly see how even someone who claims to be intelligent and has wealth is still just an insecure little boy when poked fun at. And how do insecure little boys retaliate?
Viki Ackland Questions to Women
* I want to understand why the need for the wedding complete with the expensive dress, the china, the debt and the drama. Do we ever stop and ask “why” and “how” these traditions started? We live our lives like sheep, doing what is expected of us,
Viki Ackland The scales Life is very much like the scales, an up and down ride, one pain and bout of sorrow giving way to another and another.
Viki Ackland Change in the times I am forty nine and while I do not find that old I realize I am middle aged and have witnessed and experienced quite a lot. It surprises me when I stop and think about it just how much the world has changed in my short life time.
Viki Ackland The Government and the Mob, Why They Are Alike Gangsters by their very nature are sworn enemies of the law, they are always on the other side (opposing) of the law, and they do little to hide it, flaunting their many illegal activities.
Viki Ackland Eat beans not beings Like the song says, “I’ve been everywhere man”, would apply to me and my various stages of foodities. Suffice it to say I have been a vegetarian, vegan, almost vegetarian, no red meat and now vegan again.
Viki Ackland The true meaning of Halloween Halloween is approaching at a frighteningly fast rate and everyone is preparing their children and homes for the celebration and festivities. But lost in the midst all the spookiness and Halloween-ing frenzy that we are used to participating in, we often forget the true meaning behind why we are really celebrating.
Viki Ackland Jerry Springer : Rot in Hell There is much about the US and even more about American television that I despise. I would even go so far to say that I think TV is evil and is becoming the downfall of our society, but Jerry Springer is a breed of evil all on his own.
Viki Ackland 10 Things all you people obsessed with celebrities need to know (monomania)
Viki Ackland Black days ahead I am confused and incensed lately watching and reading the news. This latest man in the news, who murdered all these helpless innocent girls, did it because he had molested children 20 years prior. Why not just kill yourself?
Viki Ackland A light at the end of the tunnel I often write articles complaining about how society over the years has completely destroyed the goddess and female image while making men feel it is their right, as men, to own a media image fed doll of their very own.
Viki Ackland Scale, don’t rate me sucka So here we are, women, all together, all shapes and sizes, some big, some small, I say cheers to all.
Viki Ackland Clothing appropriate gene lacking What is it when the weather does that subtle shift from blazing hot to pleasant and bearable that makes people want to drag out all their sweaters, vests and parka’s?
Viki Ackland Junk Food for our pets It is true that in a world of increasingly overweight people we have correctly pointed the finger at the obsessive consumption of junk food.
Viki Ackland A day in the life Are we in touch with the things that truly give us pleasure? Do we spend the bulk of our lives “waiting” for the timing to be perfect before we venture into the unknown, cross the imaginary line that has been drawn for us by years of brainwashing and obedient education?
Viki Ackland Are Humans Idiots? The answer is yes. We must be, it is the only explanation and yet perhaps if we just embrace our Inner Idiot and let the Inner Child go we can be happy in this chaotic idiotic world. We have been starting wars since the beginning of time, and the one thing it clearly shows is how morally and spiritually wrong it is, yet we continue to do it. Only idiots never learn from their mistakes.
Viki Ackland Divorcing Friends I have always been amazed at the bond and connection between friends. You can clearly recognize friends who have a great deal of respect for each other and who work on maintaining a positive friendship. There is a secret language, knowledge that you do not and will not judge, no matter what the situation.
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