What is life all about?

[Curiosity]

Jim and Karrie

For you guys am gonna try a parsnip...hee....

Love fruit too and it is one reason I enjoy California - a weekend drive for a couple of hours you can visit the picking farms and get things off the tree or vine or in the ground....

I love to watch the almond and walnut orchards doing the shake it dance dropping the 'fruit' to the ground.... so many things to enjoy....

Jim about your daughter - my Will has created more awful stuff and old hurts keep surfacing and numbers keep changing.... it is a test for sure.

I've pulled out all the stops now and my family know when they hurt me or make me sad - and I don't let an angry moment go by with any of them until we have come to an understanding - even if it is a detent.... shunning will only prolong the agony.. and robs you of the chance to tell her how much she means to you and that she has the power to hurt you deeply.... help her to store up her memories....even the bad times... that is what she lives on when you aren't around.

Parsnips here I come ..ack!

 

[jimmoyer]

What is life all about ?

Life could be only about your toothache. That's enough to fill ALL of your attention.

Or..

It could be about the parsimmon. First time I ate one. Great taste, like a sugary custard
with a dab or orange taste. I'm adding that as a regular. Came all the way from Israel
by the Sharon company to a measely little grocery in Virginia.

And Curiosity, I'm amazed how much produce comes out of California.

 

[Curiosity]

Jim

I am too - there are five I believe different climates all tied together within that one state - more than some countries have - and it offers a great variety of growing things because of this unique situation of climatology.

It is truly an interesting place to live if one can get past the Disneyland/Hollywood/surfer stuff.... there is much much more....

 

[jimmoyer]

DID YOU SAY, SURFER STUFF ??

I can't get past the surfer stuff.

This is what life is about...

I, I love the colorful clothes she wears
And the way the sunlight plays upon her hair
I hear the sound of a gentle word
On the wind that lifts her perfume through the air

I'm pickin' up good vibrations
She's giving me excitations
I'm pickin' up good vibrations
(Oom bop bop good vibrations)
She's giving me excitations
(Oom bop bop excitations)
Good good good good vibrations
(Oom bop bop)
She's giving me excitations
(Oom bop bop excitations)
Good good good good vibrations
(Oom bop bop)
She's giving me excitations
(Oom bop bop excitations)

Close my eyes
She's somehow closer now
Softly smile, I know she must be kind
When I look in her eyes
She goes with me to a blossom world

I'm pickin' up good vibrations
She's giving me excitations
I'm pickin' up good vibrations
(Oom bop bop good vibrations)
She's giving me excitations
(Oom bop bop excitations)
Good good good good vibrations
(Oom bop bop)
She's giving me excitations
(Oom bop bop excitations)
Good good good good vibrations
(Oom bop bop)
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She's giving me excitations
(Oom bop bop excitations)

(Ahhhhhhh)
(Ah my my what elation)
I don't know where but she sends me there
(Ah my my what a sensation)
(Ah my my what elations)
(Ah my my what)

Gotta keep those lovin' good vibrations
A happenin' with her
Gotta keep those lovin' good vibrations
A happenin' with her
Gotta keep those lovin' good vibrations
A happenin'

Ahhhhhhhh
Good good good good vibrations
(Oom bop bop)
(IÕm pickinÕ up good vibrations)
She's giving me excitations
(Oom bop bop)
(Excitations)
Good good good good vibrations
(Oom bop bop)
She's na na . . .

Na na na na na
Na na na
Na na na na na
Na na na
Do do do do do
Do do do
Do do do do do
Do do do

 

[unclepercy]

Hi JimMoyer

Lucky lady with her new lung - I am jealous and medical science never ceases to amaze me...along with their courageous patients who are actually explorers in our world of internal things.

I can't even have a biopsy because the lung condition is such I wouldn't survive.... I am going to have another CT in June to see the growth rate...this will give me a better time frame for sorting out things....

Other than the news I feel fine and strangely enough feel more vital that I won't be getting too many of what we term: 'second chances' to amend our boo boos....gotta try and do it right the first time around.

Wednesday's Child

Your post hit me in the gut. My husband has had lung cancer, small cell (not operable). It was so small, that the doctors assured us it could be cured. I have the recording on my answering machine from the radiologist who said she was 100% sure she could get it. They say they got it. The last PET scan was clear. We are living in three-month increments. God bless you - I am so sorry. I hope you have someone like me to stand by you and go to every visit, and to help you out when you aren't able. I just wonder when my times comes - who will be there for me?

Uncle

 

[selfactivated]

China/Hermann

Please - I made a mistake yesterday sharing that information - it just came out when I read the title of China's post - because I have lately begun to understand how precious life is and what we can do
for ourselves instead of just cruising through the days waiting for life to 'do something' instead of making those 'somethings' happen for us.

I realize now I should not have put up such personal information but I wanted people to know there is
a great dynamic to being alive if we would allow it to happen - and life is simply about being alive - interacting with others, the problems of life, the joys of life, using our minds, hearts, bodies and each contributing what we can to the group, and if possible having a laugh at ourselves often.

I guess I have discovered it isn't all about us living within ourselves, but extending ourselves outward and perhaps making a difference in some small way. I never meant to make people feel uncomfortable but it is a natural reaction.

People are still going to get mad at me, argue what I write, agree with something I have said, give me kind words and all the things I experienced before - because that is life in a forum. Nothing has changed in reality. People join and leave and it is an ongoing stream of humanity and thoughts.

China Your thoughts and posts have opened my mind to so many possibilities and they could not have come at a better time for me. I am always grateful.

Hermann My apologies, an internet forum is no place to write what I did - it places a nasty load on far too many people... while I am feeling lighter and more comfortable than I have in years.
I can't retract what I wrote because the topic China gave us is exactly what I am experiencing. I was hoping people might want to grab a slice of life instead of letting the moments get away.

Cmere you, come sit with me under this willow. *takes your hand* Theres no mistakes in sharing, we've talked about that before you and I. Your message to me over the last year is to see the good in myself everyone else sees. I ask that you look into that same mirror my friend. How much of life have you shown us over the lat year? Curio fits you, your curious about life and you share it with each and every one of us. You my sweet friend are a Goddess send to me in my grief, in my sickness. You've given me hope in the darkest days of my entire life and im nothing but a stanger to you.

No we dont always agree and I expect that wont change. But you disagree with honour and honesty as I pray I do too. What is life all about? Living and dying honourably and fully as my son did. As most of us here will. Why? Because we are seekers, Lovers, Travelers and those are the ones that see life as an adventure. I am proud to walk this part of our paths together.

Much Love
Brightest Blessings
Tam

 

[Curiosity]

UnclePercy / SelfActivated

Thank you both - I haven't the right words to respond but we three know - life will take us each where we are meant to go.

What matters is how we travel on our journeys.... let's take the high road, savor life, tap into some humor along the way, hug as many folk as will allow it.....and make the walk a beautiful one.

 

[selfactivated]

UnclePercy / SelfActivated

Thank you both - I haven't the right words to respond but we three know - life will take us each where we are meant to go.

What matters is how we travel on our journeys.... let's take the high road, savor life, tap into some humor along the way, hug as many folk as will allow it.....and make the walk a beautiful one.

exactly Its all perspective. I was waylaid with the news Im going to be a Grandma again.....I cried, got mad........and read your words in my box. Guess what? IM GOING TO BE A GRANDMA AGAIN!!! Thats life LOL