Demeter prayer

Honored Demeter, rooted in the dark earth,
tender shoots and golden sheaves alike are yours.
Noble goddess, fair-haired provider of reward
to those who work the land, trading sweat and toil
for fruit and grain; mother of Persephone,
your will and devotion turn the world, the seasons.
Demeter, awe-inspiring goddess, wrathful one,
endless one, I pray to you. Grant me hope in despair,
love and loyalty so fierce no foe can best me,
sufficiency, growth, transformation. Demeter,
bring me through darkness, temper my spirit,
show me the joy within pain, the life within cold soil.

Friends lists

Old news, but I almost never check LJ's site news page; today, for some reason, I did. They are planning on changing the Friends system. Specifically,

One of our big goals for February is to split up the overloaded concept of "friends", turning it into separate categories relating to who you read on your friends page, who you trust to read your entries, who you know in real life, etc.

Isn't that kind of the same thing as filters? And I think (although I haven't used it so I'm not sure, have seen folks refer to it though) that you can also control who of your Friends list you actually see on your Friends page (some people don't include communities, for example). So I'm wondering if there is anything new here functionally, or is this just a different way to do the same things.

I can't imagine that I would do anything differently in any case--I figure that if I can read your journal, you can read mine :)--but I am curious to see what they come up with.