How lovely to find your post and catch up with your news. You're often in our thoughts and it's so good to know things are going well for you. I see you may be planning a trip to Europe - don't forget our invitation to stay with us if you get to the UK!
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Hello to all who knew me...
by Joyzabel inas i sit here addressing my xmas cards for this year and think of all the people who have helped me on my jouney this past 7 years and especially the past 3, i thought i would post a thread letting people who knew me know how i am and what i have been up to this past year.. .
it will soon be 2 years since i moved from florida to atlanta, ga. even though it was going back to full time work, i love my job and am glad i have one.. .
i acknowledge that my therapy has helped me to get my mind untangled from being raised in a high control group and from being married to an alcoholic.
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OOps! Sorry about the lack of spacing. I wrote each name individually down the page,but somehow it didn't work!
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Circuit overseers I have known during the long nightmare: PeterBarnes Terry Craft Fevos(?) Papyros Maurice Livings Harry Selbert David Gibson Geoff Alderson Wilf Gregory Brian Jewell Walter Reekie Noble Bowers John Peden Roy Nicholls Jim Buckingham Alastair Lambie David Carter Charlie Scurlock Tom Lynch Gordon Webb Some of them stayed with us and most ate in our home. I remember them well!
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Circuit overseers I have known during the long nightmare: PeterBarnes Terry Craft Fevos(?) Papyros Maurice Livings Harry Selbert David Gibson Geoff Alderson Wilf Gregory Brian Jewell Walter Reekie Noble Bowers John Peden Roy Nicholls Jim Buckingham Alastair Lambie David Carter Charlie Scurlock Tom Lynch Gordon Webb Some of them stayed with us and most ate in our home. I remember them well!
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We'll be on holiday in SF during March from UK.
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Desperate Housewives.......
by ScoobySnax ini love this programme,.......we get loads of crap from the states, but when they make a good show....wow!!
along with friends and simpsons.....this has got to be right up there with the classics!!!!.
go edie!!!!
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The title sounds trashy, but what about the literary allusions? The bored rich wife gets one perfect rose from her boyfriend, and one perfect limousine from her husband - "One Perfect Rose" by Dorothy Parker. The divorced wife asks for an explanation from her ex husband and he replies "The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of". -"Pensees" - Blaise Pascal. Anyone noticed any more?
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News of Englishman
by Belmont inenglishman had his op today and all is going according to plan.
he's feeling woozy and sore tonight, but hopefully that will pass in a day or so.
chris says he will probably have to stay in for about a week, but no doubt he will be posting if he can get hold of a laptop.
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Well said, Nina. Such a "passing" is earnestly to be desired, but it may take more than a day or so.
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News of Englishman
by Belmont inenglishman had his op today and all is going according to plan.
he's feeling woozy and sore tonight, but hopefully that will pass in a day or so.
chris says he will probably have to stay in for about a week, but no doubt he will be posting if he can get hold of a laptop.
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Englishman had his op today and all is going according to plan. He's feeling woozy and sore tonight, but hopefully that will pass in a day or so. Chris says he will probably have to stay in for about a week, but no doubt he will be posting if he can get hold of a laptop. He is in Hutton Ward, General Hospital, Weston-super-Mare, N. Somerset.
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The age of Enlightenment seems to be over.
by Norm inan excellent british author francis wheen has written a humorous yet very serious book on how enlightenment has lost out to what he calls ?mumbo jumbo among most people.. in his book ?how mumbo jumbo conquered the world a short history of modern delutions?
he demonstrates how widespread this is.
comparing the presidents back 200 years ago with the ones running in the election of 2000 he notes: .
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Commenting on how the enlightenment of the Fathers of the Republic was foundering under the mumbo jumbo of modern politics, H. L. Mencken wrote in 1922:
The Fathers of the Republic, I am convinced, had a great deal more prevision than even their most romantic worshipers give them credit for. They not only sought to create a governmental machine that would be safe from attack without; they also sought to create one that would be safe from attack within. They invented very ingenious devices for holding the mob in check, for protecting the national polity against its transient and illogical rages, for securing the determination of all the larger matters of state to a concealed but none the less real aristocracy. Nothing could have been further from the intent of Washington, Hamilton and even Jefferson than that the official doctrines of the nation, in the year 1922, should be identical with the nonsense heard in the chautauqua, from the evangelical pulpit, and on the stump.
Today there is no longer any question of statesmanship, in any real sense, in our politics. The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob. The result is that only two sorts of men stand any chance whatever of getting into actual control of affairs - first glorified mob-men who genuinely believe what the mob believes, and secondly, shrewd fellows who are willing to make any sacrifice of conviction and self-respect in order to hold their jobs.
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Got To Toughen Up These Cats Of Mine..
by Englishman inyes, from now on the cat flap remains on exit only between 8.30 - 4.30 pm, every day.. george & poppy have become spoilt, lazy, hair distributing, under your feet, pain in the ass puddy cats.. it all started with me taking a few weeks convalescence.
the house has been kept warm, i've been around to feed the little buggers on demand and they've taken me for a ride.
they even get pissy when i throw them off the couch now when i want to put me feet up to watch the telly.
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I think you're trying to be provocative, Englishman. How could you shut out your two lovely cats for eight hours? You're turning into a crusty old curmudgeon.