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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 8 hours 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. 9 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. 9 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 Joan Denoo on January 29, 2013 at 5:45pm

Comment by Steph S. on January 29, 2013 at 5:17pm: That sounds wonderful Melinda - I hope you all have a good time.

I love the lolcats you posted. Very funny. Cats are so wonderful.

Comment by Joan Denoo on January 29, 2013 at 5:15pm: Melinda, I know what you describe about being in the company of like-minded or accepting people. It is freeing to freely chatter without having someone jump down my throat. I do try, really hard, to give as good as I get with a little pepper thrown in for emphasis. It doesn't stop people from being caustic about non-believers, but they are just more polite during their next encounter.

Hope you have a great evening ...

And thanks for the great photos of cats and T.P. Priceless.

Comment by booklover on January 29, 2013 at 1:59pm: In that case, here's another one for you sk8eycat!! :) Love your story about the "decorating!"

Comment by sk8eycat on January 29, 2013 at 1:50pm: What IS it with cats and TP? LOL! I love ALL of them.

We had one 30+ years ago who "decorated" the entire house with just one roll when we were all at a day-long family gathering. It llooked like he took hold of one end and very carefully dragged it in and out of each room. Spectacular!

Comment by booklover on January 29, 2013 at 1:37pm

Comment by booklover on January 29, 2013 at 1:36pm: Great sign Grinning Cat! :) Cute cozy cat Steph. Going to an Atheist friends house for dinner tonight with some other women. Knowing her, they will all be liberal, and at least agnositc if not Atheist, so I can relax and be myself! :)~ Melinda

Comment by Grinning Cat on January 29, 2013 at 12:46pm: A much more positive church sign:

(from one of many sources around the web)

Comment by Chris Dodds on January 29, 2013 at 11:44am: I saw the picture of the sign that Tony Carroll posted here and I realize that these messages are simple examples of xtian arrogance. But sometimes churches don't need signs like that to mark their arroganceor create feelings of unease. Case in point, there's a church just down the road from where I live that doesn't have the kind of sign where you can just put letters on to create message, like the sign in Tony's photo. The only sign they have on their lawn just tells us the name of the church. Until early last years, that church was called the Rock Creek Church. It's now called the Cross Fire Church. They don't need any other sign than the one they've got to make me feel nervous. Luckily I don't know anyone who attends their services.