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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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Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Joan Denoo 1 hour ago. 4 Replies 2 Likes

This captures my opinion of Facebook. AN is so much better.Continue

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A tribute to my father

Started by Brent Feeney. Last reply by Debra Stevenson yesterday. 12 Replies 1 Like

So, I guess most of you here know that my dad died back in January of complications of Parkinson's disease. There have been times that have been rough since then, but I'd think it's all part of the process, so to speak.Today was Remembrance Sunday…Continue

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Comment by Tom Sarbeck on April 30, 2013 at 12:40am: The indeed priceless bird pic several pages back?

Are we sure it's not a female bird stopping male left brain talk?

Comment by Chris Breman on April 30, 2013 at 12:33am: Your family sound wonderful, Carl, what a great place to grow up in! I remember that I stayed as close as possible to what I felt was right for me, without letting it show - just grow up and get out.

Comment by The Flying Atheist on April 30, 2013 at 12:25am: Joan, yes, The Bear movie is on Netflix.

http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/The-Bear/290158?strkid=937695400_0_0&a...

Comment by Joan Denoo on April 30, 2013 at 12:21am: Carl, that is a wonderful story about "The Bear" Is it available to see on the internet, or Netiflix. I just marvelled at how they got those wonderful shots, certainly not an easy task to do that clip ... the whole film must be quite inspiring. Hopefully, people will go with cameras instead of guns to get their shots.

Comment by Tom Sarbeck on April 30, 2013 at 12:19am: Lots of people have trouble saying the fourth word.

Comment by Tom Sarbeck on April 30, 2013 at 12:18am: Speak the following FOUR words confidently:

I love myself unconditionally.

Comment by Joan Denoo on April 30, 2013 at 12:11am: Milky Way and Stone Tree

"What's that next to the Milky Way? An unusual natural rock formation known as Roque Cinchado or Stone Tree found on the Spanish Canary Island of Tenerife. A famous icon, Roque Cinchado is likely a dense plug of cooled volcanic magma that remains after softer surrounding rock eroded away. Majestically, the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy is visible arcing across the right of the above seven image panoramic mosaic taken during the summer of 2010. On the far right is the Teide volcano complete with a lenticular cloud hovering near its peak."

Comment by The Flying Atheist on April 29, 2013 at 11:29pm: sk8eycat, you know me, it was like a string of flashing multi-colored christmas lights.

Comment by sk8eycat on April 29, 2013 at 11:25pm: Flying A, isn't it a great feeling when that mental "lightbulb" suddenly flashes on? (I wonder if it's incandescant, or one of those twisty energy savers...heeee-heee!)

Comment by The Flying Atheist on April 29, 2013 at 11:18pm: Patricia, I loved the animals video you posted.

Joan, the bear video was also riveting. That's a video clip from an actual movie, "L'Ours" (The Bear) from 1988. I just added it to my Netiflix cue. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bear_%281988_film%29

Melinda, you'll be glad to know that, according to Wikipedia, no animals were harmed in the making of that film!