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Picture yourself spending some time with congenial friends, sharing your lives and pictures from your cell phones." They're curious about that cool game, song, movie, camping trip, art show, or other event that fascinated you. You talk about all kinds of stuff, poetry, styles, personal achievements, relationships, and bad days. You can share your inner child, and laugh together. They sympathetically listen to your feelings about serious topics like politics or climate change, even when they don't agree.

Personal validation comes from paying attention to one another, giving more than you get. Everyone respects you and themselves, despite our amazing range of personal tastes and interests. They'll tell you they don't agree with an idea or behavior without implying you're a bad person or somehow deficient. It's an "I'm OK, You're OK" kind of fellowship, where nobody tries to make himself look better by picking on somebody else.

Nobody here is into mind games. A discussion started with a loaded guilt-throwing question will be deleted.

This group is not intended to compete with other groups on topics they cover but to "fill in the cracks." Whenever a discussion dwells at length on a topic for which there's an existing group, we urge you to provide members a link to that group to continue along their tangent.

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Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Joan Denoo 8 hours ago. 4 Replies 2 Likes

This captures my opinion of Facebook. AN is so much better.Continue

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A tribute to my father

Started by Brent Feeney. Last reply by Debra Stevenson yesterday. 12 Replies 1 Like

So, I guess most of you here know that my dad died back in January of complications of Parkinson's disease. There have been times that have been rough since then, but I'd think it's all part of the process, so to speak.Today was Remembrance Sunday…Continue

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Comment by Steph S. on April 22, 2012 at 12:00am: Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

Comment by ɟǝןıx dǝʇɹɐɹ on April 11, 2012 at 4:22pm: Hi Mrs Anthony-Gardner. Sorry that only after one year I am honouring your invitation. Your group seems very interesting. I will browse it a little bit. :-)

Comment by Patricia on April 11, 2012 at 1:08pm: I was born in Alberta, live in British Columbia, & no question about our country's scenics. That is a terrific video!

Comment by Debbie Deal on April 11, 2012 at 10:35am: Love the video!

Comment by booklover on April 11, 2012 at 8:57am: sk8eycat, thanks for sharing that beautiful video. :)

Comment by sk8eycat on April 11, 2012 at 1:51am: Ruth, I hear Mom say my name.

I took care of her off and on for the last 9 years of her life (she made it to 87, despite metastatic cancer, and various other ailments after she was cancer-free), and I also still simetimes wake up thinking I have to go in her room to check on her before I'm completely awake.

Another weird thing...in the fall of 1957 I was 17, and on my first tour with HOI, and about half the show had come down with the first wave of Asian Flu. I did NOT write home about that. By my 18th birthday, I was pretty sick, but I decided to splurge and call home, anyway (from Macon, GA. Remember how much long distance calls cost back then?). The first thing mother said when she picked up the phone was NOT "Happy Birthday!" She said, "What's WRONG?"

Spooky.

Comment by Barend van der Merwe on April 11, 2012 at 12:45am: Beautiful video sk8eycat - wish it didn't end...

:-)

Comment by Barend van der Merwe on April 11, 2012 at 12:42am: Hello - I think that is just awesome Ruth.

Always something new and amazing about the natural world and ourselves.

Thanks everyone - love the discussion.

Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on April 11, 2012 at 12:19am: Sk8eycat, I'd like to reply to your hearing your mother's name. We have language only in the higher brain, with one exception, recognizing the calls of mothers to children. Just like the penguin who can find her chick in a colony of tens of thousands by recognizing his cry, mammals know their mother's call with the lymbic system. I had a similar experience once, when I was lonely, and just as I was falling asleep I thought I heard family quietly moving about in the house (as if I were not alone). It was comforting. We have these primitive brain memories of being loved, and can call them up involuntarily with an inner voice. I've learned to be comfortable with these primitive parts of myself.