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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.

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What are your Memorial Day plans?

Started by Steph S.. Last reply by Tom Sarbeck 19 hours ago. 1 Reply 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

Girl Recovered After 10 Years Claimed Dead by Psychic

Started by Steph S.. Last reply by Lillie 20 hours ago. 9 Replies 0 Likes

Psychics are all BS.Here's an interesting news article.Amanda Berry, a…Continue

Life offers many opportunities for health and flourishing

Started by Joan Denoo yesterday. 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

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Oklahoma Tornado

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Steph S. yesterday. 3 Replies 1 Like

An amazing photo of the tornado's power,Continue

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'Crazy ants' a threat in southern U.S.

Started by Steph S.. Last reply by Lillie on Sunday. 8 Replies 1 Like

Oh no! Crazy ants!!CNN) -- Beware the "crazy…Continue

10 Things You Can't Do and Become President

Started by Steph S.. Last reply by Randall Smith May 18. 7 Replies 0 Likes

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Comment by booklover on January 5, 2013 at 2:46pm: Awww Ian, that's SO adorable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm taking it to show my daughter. :)

Comment by Ian Mason on January 5, 2013 at 2:42pm: Smashing pics/shares. This one I think of as "It tickles when you kiss me"

Comment by Steph S. on January 5, 2013 at 2:31pm: What cute photos and sharing! I am so glad to visit here.

Love the lols booklover - love the dog with kittens and staring contest cat.

Joan I love the Nebraska poem. It's funny.

Duncan is a cute cat Felaine.

Thanks for the memories about your AGVA memories Felaine.

I hope everyone is doing well.

HUGS to you all.

Comment by booklover on January 5, 2013 at 2:30pm

Comment by booklover on January 5, 2013 at 2:28pm: Cute LOL cat Steph!

Comment by Steph S. on January 5, 2013 at 2:22pm

Comment by booklover on January 5, 2013 at 8:37am: lol Joan :)

Comment by sk8eycat on January 5, 2013 at 3:32am: Memories:

Elaine, just doing a bit of surfing and came on this: http://blog.sfgate.com/thebigevent/2013/01/03/frozen-in-time-eight-decades-of-bay-area-ice-shows/#comments

From a friend who moved up to the Bay area about 20 years ago...I wish the writer of the article hadn't been so sneeringly snotty about ice shows, and I'd really like to see the entire collection of photos from the Chronicle's "morgue." Follies rehearsed and opened the new season show in SF for years; it was considered their "home."

Holiday did not play San Francisco, but we opened a "new" arena in Oakland from xmas 1967 through New Year's day 1968. There must be HOI publicity pics in that collection somewhere.

Most of us did stay in hotels in SF, and the company provided a bus to take us across the Bay Bridge to Oakland every night. We spent our days being tourists, including checking out Haight-Ashbury in its hippie heyday. The art galleries were fun, but the real hippies were just depressing. But I am glad I saw it all.

I would like to explain to the "journalist" who wrote this thing why so many of us were willing to work in these shows for AGVA minimum wages, stay in sleazy hotels, live out of suitcases for 10 months a year, and smile every second we were on the ice. We loved it!

Felaine

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Comment by sk8eycat on January 5, 2013 at 3:29am: Oh, owtch!

Comment by Joan Denoo on January 5, 2013 at 2:36am: It is winter in Nebraska

And the gentle breezes blow,

70 miles per hour at 32 below!

Oh, how I love Nebraska

When the snow's up to your butt;

You take a breath of winter air

And your nose is frozen shut.

Yes, the weather here is wonderful,

You may think I'm a fool.

I could never leave Nebraska,

Cause I'm frozen to the stool.