Tag: random musings
group name: fluentthinkers
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July 05, 2007 02:49 PM EDT --
Today on CNN I saw a story of barbarity almost beyond belief. In India among many Hindus when a woman becomes a widow her family throws her into the street with the clothes on her back to fend for herself . . . more
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July 29, 2007 11:04 PM EDT --
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
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July 02, 2007 03:34 PM EDT --
I am a child of God
I am a loyal friend
I love my Gather Friends
I do not smoke {that includes anything smokeable!}
I do not drink alcoholic beverages {used to}
Now I name these friends . . . more
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October 01, 2007 02:53 PM EDT --
WalMart has apparently gotten the message concerning just how angry and worried parents are about toys for their children in this upcoming holiday season. They have taken two steps, one of which I find . . . more
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August 25, 2008 12:56 AM EDT --
I'm old, well I am elderly, no I don't like to call me that
But what the heck there are days, I have . . . more
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July 25, 2007 10:26 PM EDT --
In mid June I began a project I called The Gather 30 Day Countdown.
We have all seen fellow Gatherers get disillusioned, enraged, outraged, plain old pissed off and sign off the site permanently . . . more
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August 05, 2007 04:52 PM EDT --
Up here in "The Great White North" we have a national, publicly owned broadcaster called the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, or CBC. This is a public broadcaster that does earn some of its . . . more
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October 14, 2007 11:01 PM EDT --
Everyone who does laundry on a regular basis knows the mysterious nature and frustrating prevalence of odd socks.
Rarely do symmetrically limbed people wear a single sock. One either goes sockless . . . more
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October 22, 2007 07:56 PM EDT --
Language is the main tool we have for expressing our thoughts, ideas, feelings, hopes, dream and fears to one another. Each of us has our own distinct history, frame of reference, point of view, . . . more
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July 21, 2007 06:18 PM EDT --
Chiding children causes confusion, crying, cowering carefully ceasing
coveted connections, creating comparisons and concessions, committing
crazy conditions called clever but can carry convictions . . . more
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June 24, 2007 01:06 AM EDT --
Today has been one of those days. I went out early to run my errands and get some odds and ends done. It was cell phone hell out there. First some dumb woman in an SUV all but runs me off the road because . . . more
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December 18, 2007 06:28 PM EST --
Peter Jackson, who so successfully make the Lord of the Ring trilogy has settled his differences with the producers and has signed on to make two new movies based on The Hobbit. Jackson and the producers . . . more
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September 15, 2007 11:17 PM EDT --
Getting back to nature. Living off the land. Embracing the natural world and sacredness of our Earth Mother.
These concepts have been very popular in recent decades. Going back to the 1960s, people have . . . more
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January 30, 2008 05:35 PM EST --
I got one of those forwarded things in my email today. Mostly I glance at them and simply click "delete" but this one got me to thinking.
The story involves a guy who is returning to work. . . . more
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September 21, 2007 12:16 PM EDT --
I posted this on Gather in June of 2006. I was re-reading my articles as I tend to do so that I can regain perspective and remember that I am so much further ahead than I was yesterday...or even . . . more
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July 27, 2008 02:52 PM EDT --
If only we could all start over
from the very beginning of time
do away with all the misery
all the wars and all the crime
If . . . more
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August 04, 2008 02:10 AM EDT --
She's sitting there in her Sunday best
Waiting for her Dad
Ribbons on her socks and in her hair
Wonder why she looks so sad
Is it because he hasn't been . . . more
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February 01, 2008 10:10 PM EST --
Apparently the far right wing of the Republican party are so upset that the mainstream Republicans are finally breaking free of their leash and trying to retake the party that the likes of Ann Coulter . . . more
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October 29, 2007 12:12 AM EDT --
Dreaming is an interesting phenomenon. It is said that we dream a lot more than we remember and, indeed, it is often true that one awakens with the remnants of a dream quickly fading.
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November 17, 2007 05:53 PM EST --
"No good deed goes unpunished."
"Help someone out and you get screwed every time."
"Nice guys finish last."
We have many such cliches that reinforce . . . more
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