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Serious humor For accepting oneself: "Go ahead and make fun of yourself; Everybody else does." For acknowledging responsibility: "I didn't say it was your fault; I said I was blaming you."

Daodejing 67. Unimportance All the world says, "I am important; I am separate from all the world. I am important because I am separate, Were I the same, I could never be important." Yet here are three treasures That I cherish and commend to you: The first is compassion, By which one finds...

Well now, because of Mr. Catfish, dammit, I've changed my mood entirely.

Tom Waits, Real Gone

Please oh please oh please oh please watch this http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability.html

Hello to you fellow Midwesterner Welcome to the forum, the more the merrier. The conversations here are simply fantastic, but the coffee is horrible. I usually bring my own. Charlie

Welcome welcome welcome Howdy to you BlackUnicorn. It is nice here. Indeed. And yes, Thank you Moderators, every one of you, for every little thing you do.

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My hands Everyday when I wake from dreaming, my hands lead me back to the World. How they know the path to consciousness is a mystery. Here is where my trust of myself begins. My fingers, still ten in number, gently scrape the sleep from my eyes, quietly obliging my mind's haste to see. The...

Daodejing 19. Simplify If we could abolish knowledge and wisdom Then people would profit a hundredfold; If we could abolish duty and justice Then harmonious relationships would form; If we could abolish artifice and profit Then waste and theft would disappear. Yet such remedies treat only...

Oh, to see this country with such fresh eyes! Bella, I have thinking long and hard about what to tell you about The United States of America. So, after much deliberation, here are some practical, and hopefully useful, bits of information. 1) The system of paved interstate highways in the...

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No pain, no gain My face hurts from smiling so much last night and my ribs hurt from laughing so hard the night before. A little "hair of the dog", if you will. Thinking about it over weak coffee this morning, I'm pretty sure the moonshine got passed around last night for the sole purpose of...

Out in Uncle Sam's backyard Bella, I would like to strongly suggest to you a book to read, of not too great a length. "Travels with Charlie: In Search of America" by John Steinbeck. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travels_with_Charley:_In_Search_of_America

Nothing belongs to me. I once stood on the edge of the Badlands naked, a thousand miles from home, in the early Sun of a South Dakota morning. A great friend stood next to me, naked, and we feasted on the lunar landscape before us, as the mosquitoes feasted on our banquet of flesh. In four...

From "In Watermelon Sugar" by Richard Brautigan In watermelon sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar. I’ll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant. Wherever you are, we must do the best we can. It is so far to travel, and we have nothing...

Daodejing 68. Compassion Compassion is the finest weapon and best defence. If you would establish harmony, Compassion must surround you like a fortress. Therefore, A good soldier does not inspire fear; A good fighter does not display aggression; A good conqueror does not engage in battle; A...

Tattoo I want to tattoo my love for you in the Earth so that the gods may know that I see it well from the ground.