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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.

This group is not intended to compete with other groups on topics they cover but to "fill in the cracks." Whenever a discussion dwells at length on a topic for which there's an existing group, we urge you to provide members a link to that group to continue along their tangent.

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What are your Memorial Day plans?

Started by Steph S.. Last reply by Tom Sarbeck 1 hour 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 2 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 15 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. 16 hours ago. 3 Replies 1 Like

An amazing photo of the tornado's power,Continue

Tags: Oklahoma Tornado 2013

'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 on Saturday. 7 Replies 0 Likes

This was a fun article to read.When…Continue

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Comment by Joan Denoo on May 4, 2013 at 5:15pm: Ian, I respect your life's journey, and your ability to overcome an addiction. The brain is a difficult thing to master when it acts against your interests. Congratulations.

Your day with your daughter and her friend sounds very special and may you have many more such days.

Is this the brand and style you enjoy?

Comment by booklover on May 4, 2013 at 4:34pm: Hi Loren! Glad you're back! Wow! You just can't help but wonder why a woman that wasn't born into that culture of wearing a full burka (sp?) would ever do that voluntarily. I'm making an assumption because you said her accent was pure American.

Comment by Loren Miller on May 4, 2013 at 4:29pm: Hey, gang. Sorry if I haven't been around much, but the display on my laptop crapped out during my trip to Dallas, and there wasn't much I could do about it.

My time there was hardly boring, though ... and for more reasons than one!

Comment by booklover on May 4, 2013 at 4:25pm: I'm so glad you had such a great day Ian! Congratulations on 10 years of sobriety also!!! Hugs to you!

Steph, I love the "bowling" cat. :)

Comment by The Flying Atheist on May 4, 2013 at 3:28pm: Ian, what a fabulous day! You must be worn out. That is one FULL schedule. That's like a weeks worth of activities crammed into one day. I had to google "Branston pickle." Sounds tasty. What are some of your favorite ways to use it?

And congratulations on 10 years of sobriety. Milestones like that are worthy of recognition. --Carl

Comment by Patricia on May 4, 2013 at 3:26pm: Nice to hear this Ian.

Comment by Ian Mason on May 4, 2013 at 3:13pm: Just got home from a really nice afternoon evening. 1) visit to an art gallery and enjoyed coffee and a (very young) music student concert in their cafe. 2) concert hall for Mahler's 8th symphony for 2 orchertras, 6 choirs and a bunch of solo singers, a mammoth work. 3) out to eat with my daughter and met her boyfriend for the first time. He seems like a nice young man. 4) got a present from my daughter ( a jar of Branston pickle) on the occasion of my being 10 years sober.

If any of you have had a day half as good as mine you are a very lucky person. This is one very happy man signing off and going to bed.

Comment by The Flying Atheist on May 4, 2013 at 10:31am: Tony, I enjoyed the pipers. I actually learned to play saxophone in a program that was part of a pipers, drums and regimental marching band when I was 13 yrs old. We used to march in tons of parades in the Chicago area.

Comment by Steph S. on May 4, 2013 at 10:01am: Melinda that sounds like a wonderful day with your Atheist friend. I love the lolcat too. Flying Atheist those are great singing and dancing cats.

Ruth thanks for the coffee cup pic.

I actually love tuna. : ) Cats love it too.

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend.