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The Invitation by Oriah the Mountain Dreamer

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for,
and if you dare to dream of meeting your hearts longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love,
for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon.
I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow,
if you have been opened by life’s betrayals
or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!
I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own,
without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it.
I want to know if you can be with JOY, mine or your own;
if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of
your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, or
to remember the limitations of being a human.

It doesn’t interest me if the story you’re telling me is true.
I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself;
if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul.
I want to know if you can be faithful and therefore be trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see beauty even when it is not pretty every day,
and if you can source your life from its presence.
I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine,
and still stand on the edge of a lake and shout to the silver of the full
moon, "YES!"

It doesn’t interest me to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair,
weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done for the children.
It doesn’t interest me who you are, how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.
It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away.
I want to know if you can be alone with yourself,
and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.
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I have the following account:

(A)
apham.posterous.com
email: apham@apxs.net

and I registered for the following accounts:

(B)
anp.posterous.com
anthonyp.posterous.com
email: anp@apxs.net

and I would like to know if it's possible to roll the accounts in group B to be managed by the apham@apxs.net email used in creating the info in group A. Please advise and I do apologize for the inconvenience as I did not know it was possible to have multiple posterous accts tied to one email until it was too late.

Thanks for your time.
Anthony
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Anyone else using AT&T U-Verse out there that could comment? I currently have Dish Network, but think I could save some money with the U-Verse bundling of AT&T services

Learning Strategies is offering StevePavlina.com visitors a free download of their Peak Performance Paraliminal, which they normally sell for $29.95. They’re only making this offer available for a limited time though, so if you want to download the freebie, please follow the link to get it now.

this is awesome since I’m an auditory learner. Got mine, now get yours!

wow, this is not good since I use Carbonite for my offline backup

Wow, great that posterous can be the central hub and post to everything!