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Comment by Stephanie on September 19, 2010 at 12:31am
Thanks Shells...
good words
Can't put my energy here anymore. WHAT A SHAME!!!
It is and was a huge loss to me, you know that. It was so meaningful while it last.
Now thinking about where I will write, I love to do so, love to joke and share good times, while promoting how we are so different and yet...the same.
Too busy to write on a group presently, I love a busy life and right now I have one!
Big trip coming up in Dec, realy a great one.
Stay well
And thanks
Steph
Comment by Shells on September 17, 2010 at 9:48am
I just read your post & hear you loud and clear.. Life is funny like that. Sometimes we're ridding high on a cloud perched in the heavens, and other times, our feet just drag, barely able to pick us up from a single thought.

I love you and all the great things you do here. We are exactly where we are supposed to be at all times whether we understand or not.

I have to believe...

So tonight, I send you loving thoughts and prayers for you, this group, ipeace, and the entire world.

Erie - I too welcome you with an open heart.

Blessings to all who visit this wonderful home..

We are always on the path..
Shells - Photo, Larkspur Landing, San Francisco - path leading to a bridge to peaceful waters..
Comment by Stephanie on September 16, 2010 at 10:26pm
Erle
I imagine you are new...
this group was once very very active...it was a joy, it was a love of mine!!
I wrote almost everyday and so did many others, it was just wonderful, a good campfire.
Then ipeace had problems. And the group started to weaken, as did the site.
It broke my heart, and manyothers as well.
Now to see you hear, I have mixed emotions. The group, this site is just not the same....
Things change

So if you care to write, perhaps someone will follow you...but not many around here, not even me!!! And I LOVED this site and this group.

Sorry to not sound so welcoming, but that is how life goes.

Best to you and others, whoever might be looking in here.
I am still around, but not much here. Too much energy put in, and a broken heart...

I will check in about every week or two or three.

Hugs to all of my old buddies

Steph
Comment by Stephanie on September 4, 2010 at 8:36am
That's funny Chetana!!
Just looking at the group here...taking a look, and happy to see you are here Chetana...
hugs to you
STeph
Comment by Chetana on September 3, 2010 at 6:43am
Just to bring a smile...
A NOTE FROM BEYOND

An Illinois man left the snow-filled streets of Chicago for a vacation in Florida. His wife was on a business trip and was planning to meet him there the next day. When he reached his hotel, he decided to send his wife a quick email to let her know of his safe arrival.
Unfortunately, when typing her address, he missed one letter, and his note was directed instead to an elderly preacher’s wife whose husband had passed away only the day before. When the grieving widow checked her email, she took one look at the monitor, let out a piercing scream, and fell to the floor in a dead faint.
At the sound, her family rushed into the room and saw this note on the screen:
Dearest Wife,
Just got checked in. Everything prepared for your arrival tomorrow.
Love,
Your Husband
P.S. Sure is hot down here.
Comment by Stephanie on August 16, 2010 at 8:24am
THat is a great story Chetana!!! Very fun, funny and what a lucky one...
thanks!
Comment by Chetana on August 11, 2010 at 8:10am
This was such a humorous true story sent by my friend that I thought it would be nice to share it with you all.

Things you should never do in an elevator

Ever been on an elevator and someone behind you made you feel uncomfortable? A friend of a friend of mine (yes, this is one of 'those' type of stories) had quite the embarrassing experience some years ago... (parties will remain nameless!)
A middle aged couple from a small Midwestern town won a trip to Vegas. The kids were finally grown, they had a little rainy day money saved, and decided to turn their 3 day 2 night stay into a week's vacation, play a little slots, and maybe parlay their pocket cash into a respectable nest egg.
As it would happen, they broke about even for the first six days. The next morning the wife hit the jackpot on a mega machine and the payout was nearly ten thousand dollars. They cashed out, oohing and ahhing at the hefty stack of bills, then decided to 'get while the getting was good'. They went to their room to pack, stowing the bundle of cash in the wife's purse; then the husband went down to the restaurant to order breakfast while she lingered to use the ladies' room.
Afterward she headed for the elevator with her purse clutched tightly in both hands. When she entered the elevator, there were already three people on board; two extremely tall, muscular men in gray suits and a very short, bald man in dapper blue attire.
The poor housewife was uncomfortable about being alone in the car with three strange men, but her husband was waiting. She nervously turned her back on the three occupants and bit her lip as the doors shut. Suddenly she heard a deep voice from behind her:
"Hit the floor, lady."
Down with her face in the carpet she went, her purse spinning to the corner of the cabin, her arms out flung, hugging the floor. There was complete silence, then a funny choking sound.
The noise grew into a gasping, coughing howl, and she dared a glance up over her shoulder. The little man was bent over with his hands on his knees, laughing helplessly, tears in his eyes as he struggled for air. The two taller men were desperately trying to keep straight faces, but broke down completely at the sight of the wild-eyed woman on the floor. One of them punched a finger at the control panel and managed,
"I meant, h-hit the F-FLOOR, ma-am-"
The lady picked herself up and straightened her clothes with great dignity. One of the men in gray suits handed her back her purse, and she pushed the lobby button with a shaking hand. When the elevator hit the ground floor she exited the cabin without a word, and joined her husband in the restaurant, planning to say nothing to him of the elevator incident.
When they went to check-out, however, they were informed that their bill had been settled in full. The cashier handed them the receipt along with a blue cocktail napkin. Scrawled across it were these words:
"Thanks for the best 30 seconds I've had in a long time, and some of the best material I could ever have hoped for. It was worth every penny." It was signed by the short, bald man - one of Vegas' lead headliners.
Comment by Stephanie on July 22, 2010 at 8:01am
Hi Shells
I read this the other day, and think your son is really a mature person for 18. And the passion for writing, it is great.
I was getting into the writing and enjoying it...maybe it was the moment I was reading it, having lots of things on my mind and in this heat which is pretty bad, but I thought that the writing should be cut down, because it is so long and hard (was for me anyhow) to keep my attention.
Let's hope he keeps up with his writing, because for sure he has a lot of deep thoughts...especially for that age don't you think?
Thanks Shells, and thanks to your son too.
Steph
Comment by Shells on July 19, 2010 at 4:37am
Ps.. He's just 18 years old!
Comment by Shells on July 19, 2010 at 4:36am
Somewhere dislodged in the temporal strata
(My youngest son asked me to post this story. He wrote it while falling in love for the first time.. It's raw and unedited.. Let me know what you think..)

I held that flower once. As I looked at it, I felt myself notice that the feeling was foreign. As the flower turned its eyes to me, it saw that I was not the sun that it had craved and wanted. In its panic, it decided to ask what I wanted of it. I said in return "Answers". When night came, it only uttered one word, "No". Upon hearing this, I became incorporeal.

The flower, now free from its prison, fell to the floor, and took root in the soft inviting earth. As its roots grew, the flower flourished and in doing so lost its identity as the flower, which I had come to know. Its shape contorted and it took the form of many familiar and strange objects that had once held meaning to me.

I... watched this abstraction grow over many years, to me feeling as only mere seconds. As it grew, the earth that gave it life started to shrink until it vanished leaving only the abstraction in its wake. I knew now that I was not staring at that which I had thought to be nothing more than a receptacle for my anger. What I was staring at was absolute knowledge.

I spoke not a word as it turned itself towards me. In my current state, I had thought that it was a mere coincidence that it had turned directly towards me. We both said not a word as we floated through our current existence, watching each and every star pass us by. Finally, it spoke in a tone of voice that I had never heard before, asking if I wanted my body back. I asked it if I deserved it, and I heard no reply. It seemed as if all sound had stopped, as if everything in this universe was telling me that which I had known. In a frantic whimpering voice, I shouted, "Do I deserve it!” Silence. In my mind I could feel my thoughts and dreams slowly fading away, I started to cry. I shouted again,
"Do........... I deser-ve it!”

The words had become harder to say. What remained of my incorporeal consciousness was now flashing images of my childhood that I had forgot, my first bike, my first kiss, my first love.....I couldn't let this continue. In my final act of existence, I plunged my consciousness into the body of knowledge, not caring what would come of it. As I neared the body, I could hear its gaze shift down unto me yet again. Slowly I started to lose speed until I finally came to a complete stop. As hard as I tried I could not move.

Knowledge opened its mouth, releasing a thunderous noise that could only be described as a roar. "Child!" It said, "Is this really how you want this to end? Do you really wish for someone else to tell you your worth in this reality?” Knowledge stopped for a second as it reached out four vines that slowly knotted and twisted themselves into the shape of a hand. "You child are perfect in every way as with every other thing that exists in this vast existence. Why you and everyone like you puts so much energy into garnering worth from others is something that I think I will never quite understand." I stepped onto its hand and was lifted up. When I reached it at eye level, knowledge spoke to me once more, "Child, I will give you your body back but not because I think you deserve it. I will give it back because the fact that you ever existed is reason enough to warrant anything."

The universe began to shake and I could feel myself becoming real again. Slowly my body started to reform. I could see my hands and feet again and slowly my legs. I looked over at knowledge to thank it for giving me back my body. I fell to my knees. In this act of restoring my body this avatar of knowledge was dying. "Why would you sacrifice yourself for me, why would you do this?" I shouted in a panicked voice. Knowledge gasped…, "Child...you are worth sacrificing for...you are...worth this final act of existence."

My eyes became heavy; I could see the earth starting to reform and the avatar slowly vanish. I could not stay awake any longer. I fell through its hand and plummeted to the earth. I could feel my life slowly enter my body and all my thoughts and dreams return. I could remember everything about life that had made me love it as a child; it came over me like a warm blanket. As I was about to hit the ground I finally realized what knowledge was trying to tell me, what he had wanted me to understand and why his sacrifice was not in vain, and in this moment I was finally happy.
© June 2010 T. Clay
 

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