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Hillbilly

Sunday, August 11, 2002 - 10:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
...that depends...is it working?!

Drpepper

Sunday, August 11, 2002 - 10:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yea, you did good! My bestest friend is called hillbilly, so that was pretty easy. :)

Oregonfire

Sunday, August 11, 2002 - 11:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Here's one of my favorite poems, no special reason for posting it.

Spring and Fall: To a Young Child

MARGARET, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leaves, like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! as the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie.
And yet you will weep and know why.
Now no matter, child, the name:
Sorrow's springs are the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:
It is the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Cyn

Sunday, August 11, 2002 - 11:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
goodnight Oregonfire and Clubhouse.
here's Sun Tzu's quote rewritten. it's in Tzu's words in its entirety in the Christian thread.

if you know yourself and know your partner, your relationship will flourish.

if you know yourself but don't know your partner, the road will be rocky.

if you know neither yourself nor your partner, your relationship doesn’t stand a chance.

Twiggyish

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 08:11 am EditMoveDeleteIP
These are wonderful!! Thanks for sharing.

Maesin

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 09:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I like this thread...lots of good, quiet, happy stuff. Here's one of my favs. that makes me smile:
A green isle in the sea, love
A fountain and a shrine
All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers,
And all the flowers were mine.
E. A. Poe "To One in Paradise"

I am also a HUGE Robert Frost fan, thanks to my mother, so I will read his stuff sometimes when I need a pick me up.

I remember earlier in this thread (I think) someone mentioned the Tao of Pooh, love that book! Very calming.

Costacat

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 09:06 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Dang! I get all irritated last night, and "zenning out" wasn't helping. SO I leave. And right after I do, Fluffy wanders in with her cat and all sorts of treats. Darn it!

Twiggyish

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 10:07 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh don't worry. We're used to lively debates. Do you remember the Gun Control thread last year? (I hope that one never returns)

Oregonfire

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 10:12 am EditMoveDeleteIP
You mean the thread that just wouldn't die? Nooooooooooooooo....!

I don't have a problem with lively debate threads, but when the same thing starts being said over and over again, it gets a bit stale for me. Guess I don't have to read threads like that in their entirety, but I always do!

Costacat

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 10:22 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ahhhhhhhhhh...

Breathe in, breathe out...

Yes, Oregonfire, I agree!

There are a couple of people who insist on jumping in to various threads and inciting riots.

I'm pretty well ticked off at some of these people now. Yes, it's OK to disagree with views being discussed. But to continually bring up the same freakin' views -- within threads wherein that wasn't even being discussed -- is just, well... it's just...

Breathe in, breathe out...

Gotta go find my calming lavendar oils...

Mystery

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 10:25 am EditMoveDeleteIP
There are threads I don't read for their content, and posters I don't read for their content and their style (can't stand the ones who type like this..never bothering to separate their posts into coherent thoughts and sentences..like there aren't enough posts that I miss every day without spending time cringing my way through this kind of stuff..)

:)

Costa, I apologized over in the Arnie thread for not reading the whole thing before I responded to something (not that you were talking about me back then, because I hadn't yet intruded!)

I'm loving the poetry and soothing images in this thread!

Fluffybbw

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 10:32 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Costacat, I am sending Bart, (my cat) in right now for you, also, here's some nice fresh fruit, some Baskin Robbins ice cream, and some lovely herb teas, I hope this helps!

Goddessatlaw

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 10:33 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Hey, sorry for throwing a party in your thread last night, Oregon - it was too early to open the late night bar and the crowd needed somewhere to hang out. Tried to get the hanyacks redirected to the watering hole as soon as I could reasonably open for late night. You did a good job, too of getting the zen back on track. Thanks.

Fluffybbw

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 10:35 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Opps, I'm sorry Goddess, did I just throw the Zen off again?

Mystery

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 10:35 am EditMoveDeleteIP
What's a hanyack? I promise to use the word three times and make it mine, if you tell me.

Goddessatlaw

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 10:38 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Spelling is phonetic - my German grandparents always called us hanyacks, my parents too - sort of an affectionate German word for misbehaved brats whom we love dearly. (Ps they called us slavenhannis', too, which is substantially less affectionate)

Oregonfire

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 10:39 am EditMoveDeleteIP
No problem, Goddess! This has pretty much become the "runoff" thread. What am I still doing in here anyway? I feel like I have a hangover without having any cocktails. Barely got any sleep last night because that was a big spider nesting over my head and it was freaking me out. I noticed she (the spider) moved over this morning to a different part of the wall, which was at least conscientious. (the "No spiders" thread?)

Goddessatlaw

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 10:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Girl, if there's a spider in my room it's got to go before I get any rest. I can totally relate.

Goddessatlaw

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 10:42 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Actually, don't we have some Yiddish-speaking boardmembers? They would probably recognize those two words and be able to give me more accurate translations and spellings.

Rnr60

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 10:42 am EditMoveDeleteIP
(temporarily out of lurk mode to apologize)

Costa, everyone else, I was involved in the posting in the Marc vs Gerry thread last night. I lost my temper, said some things I probably shouldn't have posted on this board, regardless of my feelings at the time.

I apologize to you, and others if I made you uncomfortable.
(back to lurking)

Oregonfire

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 10:47 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Don't worry, Rnr60. We're all just one big dysfunctional family around here. No apologies needed! ;)

Goddessatlaw

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 10:47 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Rnr60, I apologize too. I had laid off that thread entirely for a number of reasons, but last night that thread was the only thing going. So I read it, and became increasingly irritated with the entire thing. Unfortunately, Rnr60, you showed up around the time I had finally had enough. Wood's used to me taking off on him (although not like that, and he knows I only flash for a minute and seriously don't bite) but you're not, and under different circumstances I would have spoken to you very differently or probably not at all - why was any of that my business, anyway. I apologize and I'm hope we're going to be friends from here on out.

Costacat

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 10:59 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Mystery... I didn't go back, but I did wanna thank you for your apology (and you're right... it wasn't YOU! <grin>).

Rnr60... I'm pretty sure I wasn't tweaked at you, either. More just a general overall "gee whiz, you guys!" Could you drop the bone, for pete's sake! I'm sure none of my comments were intended towards you.

What got me going today was that a totally innocuous thread was taken over, and started to become the whole Marcie vs Gerry vs clean vs unclean vs bash vs don't bash vs... whew! I ran outta steam there!

Anyways, thank you all for being so SOOTHING! I'm ever so much more calm now. Fluffy's kitty on my lap (my two are home a-snoozin'), and B&R ice cream at hand. I mean, does it get much better 'n this?

Maybe we ought to start up a new thread called "Miscellaneous Apologies." And anyone can go in there to apologize for unintentionally being an idiot (or, maybe intentionally being one! <BIG grin>).

So, to borrow from Goddess (from whom I seem to borrow a lot)... can we all just be friends?

Goddessatlaw

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 11:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Costa, you read my mind - I was just going to suggest an apology thread to Oregon so we could keep the karma on track in the zen thread.

Rnr60

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 11:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks for understanding. I'm usually much more laid back- my style is more like the Parody thread I started. But the more I read, the more irritated I became, and it seemed like I saw the same posts in every thread I looked at. Call it temporary insanity caused by excessive BB3 consumption.