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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.

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Life offers many opportunities for health and flourishing

Started by Joan Denoo 1 hour ago. 0 Replies 0 Likes

Life offers many opportunities for health and flourishing and our bodies have all kinds of red flags it sends up to tell us something is wrong. Pay attention to those flags, they can save your health and your life. I talked to a lady yesterday who…Continue

Tags: tools, for, living, denial, delusions

Oklahoma Tornado

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Steph S. 2 hours ago. 3 Replies 1 Like

An amazing photo of the tornado's power,Continue

Tags: Oklahoma Tornado 2013

What are your Memorial Day plans?

Started by Steph S. 2 hours ago. 0 Replies 0 Likes

I just wanted to make a fun discussion and see what all of you are doing on Memorial Day.Anyone attending a parade?Anyone honoring vets?Here is an event in Austin that looks very interesting to me.Austin, TXClose Assault 1944 is living history and…Continue

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Comment by Steph S. on October 2, 2012 at 7:46pm: So behind on the posts here. But never fear - I'm getting caught up right now. I will make sure to look at everything.

Comment by sk8eycat on October 2, 2012 at 7:34pm: Ruth, years ago I practically lived on the Cheezburger web site, but they've made so many changes in the past 6 months or so that I hardly recognize the place, can't find anything, and I flat "DO NOT WANT!" I particularly dislike all the FlakeBook connections that they've added.

It just doesn't feel like "home" anymore. So I don't go there, unless someone tells me to. My sister still spends a lot of time there...she specializes in Trek LOLz...

Live long and prosper!

Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on October 2, 2012 at 7:16pm: Thanks for the great quotes Tony and Loren! And for the chuckle, Chris!

I'm upset because Cheezburger had a front page picture of a man smashing a woman's face, like it was something to cheer for. I always went there for cute cats, not to be virtually assaulted.

Is the cat with the really big bite yours, booklover?

Have a peaceful night, all.

Comment by booklover on October 2, 2012 at 4:49pm: That's true Lillie!

@sk8eycat, that is a scary situation to be in. We are in tornado country here, but there is also a fault-line, but I don't think it would do too much damage in my city.

Comment by sk8eycat on October 2, 2012 at 4:29pm: @booklover and Lille: I live in Southern California...I think most of my (English-speaking) neighbors would get the joke. We know from experience that you can't "stop" it, but wish we could. We're ALL sort of quietly biting our nails knowing "The Big One" is 25 - 50 years overdue. 1994 was bad enough.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Northridge_earthquake

Comment by Lillie on October 2, 2012 at 3:49pm: Or they wouldn't know you couldn't stop it. (plate tectonics, that is)

Comment by booklover on October 2, 2012 at 1:31pm: Love your thought for the day sk8eycat. I'll bet if you put that on a shirt, 3/4 of the people you ran into wouldn't even know what it meant.

Comment by sk8eycat on October 2, 2012 at 1:21pm: Thought for the day.... (I recently bought a book about Anne McCaffrey, one of my favorite wriers, and there was one photograph of her wearing a sweatshirt with the following)

STOP
PLATE
TECTONICS