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Comment by booklover on December 6, 2012 at 7:08am: Good Morning All! Bonjour Napoleon! Patricia, that is one of the cutest videos I have ever seen! Thanks so much for posting it! I shared it with a bunch of people. Seeing animals do such amazing things makes me really happy.

Have a great Thursday everyone!

Comment by booklover on December 6, 2012 at 7:00am: Joan, thank you for that post. Your outlook on life is positively WONDERFUL and so are YOU! I'm grateful you're my friend, and I love to read your posts! I never had to go what you went through, but reading the things you write makes me appreciate life and love and nature even more because of the way you describe it! I do get to be with my son also, but he lives here while he goes to school, so I do get to experience a having a daughter and a son. They don't have spouses yet, or children, so I still get them pretty to myself (well, I do have to share them with my husband, lol.) I cared SO MUCH about what others thought of me when I was younger, I think I got cared-out! lol. It IS freeing to not care what others think. I love to just be who I am. I agree animals make the world happier and better, and it IS awesome that someday we will just go back to the elements we came from, and particles of us will become something else. You are so kind and I learn so much from you. All of us here do. Love you. Your friend, Melinda

Comment by Chris Breman on December 6, 2012 at 1:26am: It must be fear, Sk8eycat, because the believers have taken an unseemly advantage of other lifeforms, by claiming to be better or more important. But the effect is bad, as I found out when growing up fundie: it isolates you from everything, even from yourself. I really came into my own when I discovered that we're all stardust - it's a source of happiness to me.

Comment by Ian Mason on December 6, 2012 at 12:19am: That's a very charming video, Patricia. Sort of says "it's natural to be nice".

Bonjour, monsieur. Vive la Marianne!

Comment by Napoleon Bonaparte on December 5, 2012 at 9:38pm: Les Athées Napoléonienne

Comment by sk8eycat on December 5, 2012 at 6:25pm: Joan, I was SO proud to be working at KCET when Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" was in production there; I got chills sneaking onto the sets when they weren't in use.

But the biggest thrill of all was when the series finally aired, and Sagan explained so clearly about supernovae and how "We are ALL made of star stuff." And on another episode, when he looked right into the camera and said, "Evolution is a fact," I jumped up, cheered, and clapped my hands. (I was watching it alone at home.)

I do not understand why so many people have a problem with the fact that we are descended from blue-green algae and other life forms. Even the buybull says Adam was made out of dirt, so what's the diff? ("Ashes to ashes, dust to dust." That's their dogma, so what are they whining about?)

Comment by Patricia on December 5, 2012 at 4:38pm: Crow feeds pets......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RZ3o5S61lBY

Comment by Patricia on December 5, 2012 at 4:10pm: My pal & her husband retired to England in 1995 so he could search for his parents. He found them but died last year & my pal is packing up to return to Canada. She sent plenty of emails about how the whole country seems to freak totally at the first flake of snow or a temperature dip.

The neighbors have already supplied us with firewood so all we need now is a finished place to burn it! We even have a new set of accessory tools due to arrive any day now from Home Depot, which I found online for half price.

Comment by Ian Mason on December 5, 2012 at 3:45pm: Joan, that sounds like a happy nest of children, perhaps because you are so positive in your view of life.

Felaine, hoping for the best for you.

I've now found out that my flight WAS cancelled due to weather and not an airline fuck-up. The problem is that England grinds to a halt at the first hint of snow. A cross-channel rail trip would be something like a 24-hour trip, pehaps longer. A direct flight takes 1½ hours plus travelling time on the ground and the usual standing in queues, about 5-6 hours in all and is a lot cheaper if booked well in advance. Oh well, I've lived in Denmark for nearly 26 years and this is the first time it's happened so the odds have been pretty good. It's just bloody annoying that it happened now.

Comment by Joan Denoo on December 5, 2012 at 3:30pm: Melinda, Oh! Yes indeed! enjoy the Winter Solstice and your daughter! Time slips by so quickly and being with a loving daughter is about the best treat I can think of. Right up there with being with loving sons and all their offspring. They do the cooking, now, and hosting the parties and I can simply wallow in the joy of it all.

I feel extremely fortunate to have been able to shake off the old mantle of myths and fables that laid claim on my thoughts and actions for so many years, and I am free to think about things once forbidden. I can see myself as part of this fantastic universe and not destined to some terrible burning eternal fire or a place that some claimed to be paradise and I could only see boredom.

My purpose in life is to be genuinely me, not some fabricated wretch that could never live up to another's expectations. My sense of direction comes from being awake and aware of events taking place around me. Some things I can change, some I can't, and some just feel so important to me I surge ahead as if I do make a difference.

Having my origin being the exploding stars that produces all the elements that make you and me, and that we share our origins with everything on Earth gives me a great big kick in the behind. I really am! I am what I am, and so are you. Isn't that great news!?

The fact that I will return to the elements from which I emerged makes me just want to dance and sing and inspires me to breath each breath with a sense of wonder and meaning.

Just as all these wonderful cats that appear on these pages, and the amazing birds that exist on the Earth means I am part of all of that and I am so damned grateful to have this life, aches and pains and all that. It is a price well worth paying to be conscious of it all.

And my dear friend, you contribute to my joy in so many ways. Melinda, shine your light and sing your song, and dance your dance, and be all that you are. You and I can be partners in the dance of life and all who share these words create a web of life worth living.