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[sKePTiKal]

I can buy "thought weight", tt. Don't feelings have impact, therefore implying force?

We're always describing feelings with some combination of type and force - maybe energy is a better word: hit me like a mack truck, laid me low, feet not touching the ground, blew me away...

maybe thoughts & feelings are aspects of the "fifth element" in alchemy or chinese philosophy. Earth, air, fire & water - and ???? (chinese would say chi or shen - which is "spirit"; if I remember correctly the alchemists called this "aether").

[debkor]

Things that make me smile!

In our family we do some things (that you do the where did that come from) un-expected but make you smile and memories for (life times).

We sing and dance (a lot) that just happens.  Fun times.  Silly Times.

My kids use to have some flashing light and would yell...Dance time!  We all run to the front bedroom, lights out, music on, flashing light's on (the ones that make you look in (freeze's or snap shots) and just dance!

When my D was first dating (and had her heart broken) on her way home (my S and I) were waiting for her as soon as whe walked through the door looking Oh so Sad.
He put on a white T shirt (and his dad's leather jacket) I was (in my D's prom dress) that didn't zip all the way up.  My S opened the door and said...No one put's L in the corner and we hit the music button...(I had the time of my life) Dirty Dancing...and tried to do the scene!  I stood on top of my kitchen counter (like baby on the stage) swaying my dress back and forth (doing little step) as my S did the dance (including ripping his jacket off) then back toward the kitchen counter so I could jump off and him catch me...CRASH...squash.....but so much laughter! 

The broken heart (healed and passed) and my son's bruise's but the memory...Never!

I was watching's the link Hops just sent (for the holiday) while people were having lunch.  And such simple (unexpected things) how they can fill you with such joy/memories/and change your mood or put you in one (and a good memory for a lifetime). 

So I wanted to share (don't know if you have seen this)   It was sent to me and I smile the whole time through it then showed it to my kids and friends (and just watched thier faces).....so here ya go! Look at the people in the church (not expecting) what takes place ...And the Joy!
Smiles Away!

Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-94JhLEiN0

Love
Deb

[Hopalong]

Deb! CB!

It's my great pleasure too! Love these so much.

It's a little joy-hunt...I ran into some "flash OPERA" -- one in a crowded market -- that was just fabulous.

Please do send me any more you find, anytime. (I'm not much interested in the "frozen" flashmob things but just love the musical ones, choral especially...they just lift my heart.)



Hops

[BonesMS]

Mildred, the church gossip, and self-appointed monitor of the church's morals, kept sticking her nose into other people's business..

Several members did not approve of her extra curricular activities, but feared her enough to maintain their silence.

She made a mistake, however, when she accused Frank, a new member, of being an alcoholic after she saw his old pickup parked in front of the town's

only bar one after noon.

She emphatically told Frank (and several others) that every one seeing it there

WOULD KNOW WHAT HE WAS DOING!

Frank, a man of few words, stared at her for a moment and just turned and walked away.  He didn't explain, defend, or deny.

He said nothing..

Later that evening, Frank quietly parked his pickup in front of Mildred's house ... walked home . . .and left it there all night.

(You gotta love Frank!)

LOL!!!!   

[Hopalong]

http://www.wimp.com/elephantrescued/

Hops

[teartracks]

Middle age is that place where in many respects, life becomes its own mirror image.

tt

[teartracks]

“Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?”
Steve Jobs

[Sela]

Hiya TT,

I haven't been here in awhile and just happened upon this.

Yes!  Very interesting imo too!

Sounds like an exercise that would feel quite cathartic, if nothing else (the letter writing part).

Did you feel the urge to write letters after reading it?

  Sela

[Hopalong]

Hi ((((((((((Sela))))))))))) --

So nice to hear you're here. Are you doing well?

I love Cary Tennis. Most of the time he goes right through people's sorrow, fear and anger and proposes compassion for self, the well of healing. He sees injustice for what it is but always moves past it to the next space.

xo
Hops

[Sela]

Hi TT,

For those future generations, well, won't it feel good to them to know that way before they were born, someone was on their side who had labored to break the generational curse?

Yes, TT, especially if the curse is actually broken so badly that it's hardly recognizable eh?

Hey Hops!  As usual, it varies how I am.  Today?  Good.  It's amazing that as old as I am (103?), I still feel like I'm dealing with issues that stem
from the far past, some days, and then others, I just..... refuse to allow all of that to interfere in my serenity.  It's very weird.

A woman who's child died was saying on a tv talk show:  "This happened.  My heart will never heal from it and that's ok.  Since he bothered to die, I will bother to hurt over it."

Or something like that.

My first thought was: "Yep, some stuff just deserves remembering."

I thinking I'm wandering away off topic.   

How about you?  How are things?

Hiya Guest!  

Thanks for the kind words to me all.  You make it feel like home here.

Sela

[teartracks]

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
C. S. Lewis

[Hopalong]

Hi Sela, thanks for asking...I am struck by that quote. And by your using the word serenity. I forget this word isn't co-opted, still means what it means, and is wonderful to think about.

I am okay. Recently I had some peak anxiety and now am a calmer. Somehow lately I've jerked myself away from obsessive worrying. I could worry about the worrying starting up again, but I just don't feel like it!

I'm a little more present focused than I had been. I think sunlight and warm weather make it easier.

love,
Hops

[teartracks]

God does not allow a person to overstep their possibilities...

[sKePTiKal]

I just like to run across ideas or things I never knew about... I like "discovery". And I think reading is my primary source of that since the physical kind of discovery (mountain climbing, astronaut, deep sea diver...) is way too strenuous for me now.

And I know what you mean, Guest about clarity... know what you mean.

[teartracks]

Walking for exercise with an interesting twist.  I saw a lady senior citizen walking and twirling her baton.  It appeared that she was doing a routine probably from her teens.