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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

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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

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What are your Memorial Day plans?

Started by Steph S. 6 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 booklover on November 1, 2012 at 7:36am: We had a lot of Trick-or-Treaters. The first hour it seemed were local kids, then we had the big cars/vans full of kids. We gave away all the candy, then turned out the lights and watched t.v.!

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Comment by Chris Breman on November 1, 2012 at 1:55am: No one here but my black cat: I've seen Halloween decorations in shops, but no one I heard of celebrates it here.

I'm plodding around on a prehistoric laptop now that my pc is in repair - it takes hours to type a sentence, but I'm still here...

Comment by sk8eycat on November 1, 2012 at 1:08am: Grumpy told me that it was just a "sympathy feel." Paranoid S.O.B.

Speaking of paranoid, I grieve for the way Trick-or-Treat used to be when I was a child (in the late 1940s)...most of the treats were homemade, better than all those mini-candy bars, and there were NO questions about safety. I don't think there are any weirdos "out there" adulterating the treats now, but it's like the airport TSA paranoia... better paranoid than sorry.

I hates it, Baggins. I hates it..

Comment by The Flying Atheist on November 1, 2012 at 12:09am: Sk8eycat, I don't mind if you cop a feel.

Comment by The Flying Atheist on November 1, 2012 at 12:05am: I went to the Halloween parade this evening here in Chicago and then for Mexican food afterward, so I missed the trick-or-treaters by my house (if there were any.) There have been very few in past years. Although all the kids and parents were out visiting the local store-fronts up and down the main street were I live. That seems to be the new tradition these days....skip the house by house and door to door and instead get candy from reliable commercial businesses, not from some legitimately scary neighbors. It also saves a lot of hustle up and down stairs and waiting for a doorbell to be answered. **sigh**

Comment by sk8eycat on October 31, 2012 at 11:33pm: There are very few children living in our neighborhood anymore. Instead, parents with humongous SUVs drive huge groups in from who-knows-where, and my attitude is that if they can afford the gasoline for that kind of thing, they can afford to buy their own candy, and host their own party. Or donate to the Red Cross.

Not only am I feeling bats tonight, I'm feeling Grumpy...and he doesn't like it!

Heh!