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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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Browsing carved shell jewelry by Shinji Nakaba, I came upon this ring.LOL, "Kiss the ring" has a new meaning. They show how it's made.…Continue

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Comment by booklover on March 18, 2013 at 4:22pm: Joan, I'm so sorry to hear that. Your attitude is wonderful. Of course you know that you are dear to us here on Hang with Friends, and please let us know if we can do anything like just listening, or finding entertaining things online for you to laugh at etc., as you are doing whatever you and your doctors decide. Your attitude is so wonderful. Your joke reminds me of my father-in-law, who uses words he makes up, although he thinks they are real words. We almost get hysterical some of the time. He once said he was going to the Proctomitrist, and I asked if he had his eyeball up his ass. Once he said he wasn't a catholic or a protestant. He was a pedestrian. He was perfectly serious. His name is Steve, and we call these "Steve-isms" lol. Hugs to you~ Melinda

Comment by sk8eycat on March 18, 2013 at 4:10pm: Eye candy for everyone...did any of you in the northern latitudes see this?

http://spaceweather.com/gallery/index.php?title=aurora&title2=l...

I MUST see the aurora before I die...I really want to take the train from Los Angeles to Seattle, ferry to vancouver, BC, train to Winnipeg, and from there to Churchill. See the lights and the bears.

I don't care if I come back.

Comment by Napoleon Bonaparte on March 18, 2013 at 4:03pm: http://www.atheistnexus.org/group/noproblematheists/forum/topics/vi...

Comment by Idaho Spud on March 18, 2013 at 3:25pm: Glad to hear you have wonderful doctors joan.

I'm going to try to remember the ophthorectumy joke the next time I have a biopsy. :)

Comment by Patricia on March 18, 2013 at 2:29pm: Been there done that Joan, & I'm still breathin'! I had great fun with my medical people as well......made things easier to get through that's for sure!

Comment by Joan Denoo on March 18, 2013 at 2:20pm: Well, I have had a good time, taking this journey through forces of nature; hope you enjoyed it as well. A week ago, my mammogram came back positive for cancer. I have been taking the steps advised by my wonderful team of doctors; they all have outstanding credentials, they know their fields, and they are fun. I told my doctor when he was taking the biopsy that he might as well do an ophthorectumy (sever the nerve going from my eyeball to my rectum so I wouldn't have such a shitty outlook on life) while he was at it, and the room filled with laughter. Can you think of a better way to get biopsy?

Comment by Ian Mason on March 18, 2013 at 2:09pm: Agreed, Joan. We are here, we are now; enjoy the trip and try to do some good on the way.

Comment by Joan Denoo on March 18, 2013 at 2:08pm: Just for a little conversation with Michio Kaku:

Michio Kaku on the 4 Forces of Nature.

and Brian Cox:

Brian Cox explains the forces of nature - video

And finally:

Symphony of Science - the Quantum World!

Comment by Joan Denoo on March 18, 2013 at 1:36pm: Looking toward space, seeing and learning about all the wonders of that dimension, I experience a sense of being connected. We exist kind of like wells into the universe, grounded on Earth by natural forces of gravity and electromagnetism, and impacted by Weak and Strong Forces of Nature. We need do nothing to cause all this to happen; nature does what it does and we get to participate.

Comment by Joan Denoo on March 18, 2013 at 1:30pm: Although I don't feel the sting of cold and wind, the image winter creates is so beautiful I want to share it. This photo shows the Earth's contortions of these mountains, worn down by time and weather, and the glaciated-created Lake Ontario. Many geologic changes over vast amounts of time, and remnants of evolutionary forces that bring us to this day. This precious planet needs attention.