Is anyone else an atheist with BC besides me?
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Well they might get delivered here but the package would probably be "damaged in transit."
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hmmm - I want to know if the words on the soles leave imprints as you walk.
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CLC - lovely to "see" you again - hope all is well.
I love the shoes...and llike GG wondering if they DO leave an imprint - wouldn't THAT be fun. Bet someone copies the idea, and produces so they do....
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i think that going to church does one good thing, it brings together people of a community just
to see and talk with each other..our town is unincorperated but we have a community center with
a library, museum and safety center...many groups have meetings there so it accomplishes
some of the sense of being included in a community...wish we had more of it..but NO church services..
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The senior center where I volunteer makes an effort to create community with support groups, interest groups, craft groups, etc. We have such a good program that people come from other parts of the city to participate. Kind of takes the place of a church for me. I'm with you. I would like a church without the religion.
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ah, one of my favorite words: community. What some planners call The Third Place: home, work and __________.
Really such an important part of life, especially in more rural areas, and among an aging population. Agree with all, a house of worship often serves that function. In many very rural areas, it is often the US Post Office. Where mail isn't delivered to individual residences, and people gather when they collect their mail.
Don't know if it's still the same, but the Post Office in the UK used to serve many functions, including collecting what we'd call Social Security benefits - often in a small shop in each village, town.
Agree with all - best with "no religion" - I'd put it up with the "no smoking" signs
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Yes it's hard to maintain "community" in rural areas, with an ageing population. About 15 years ago Canada Post decided to stop using small post offices - ours was in the dining room of an older house in our village - and people did gather there. Instead we got green metal boxes, with locks, outside. community dissolves a bit. We drive everywhere else to shop in box stores and malls. In old times (before me) there were general stores, and people did congregate there. No more. In some malls they actually took away the comfortable benches, so people (old people who went looking for something to do) could not even sit! Luckily, in Canada, tim Horton's donuts came along and that is our national gathering place, because they are everywhere. Groups of seniors yakking and having coffee - how lucky, but how strange that modern corporations have done their best to wreck community for the sake of efficiency. Not sure if that's true but...sometimes local pubs keep community thriving, at least if they are hospitable to females on their own. some days I just long to be able to amble out the door and down the street to an outdoor cafe where we can sit, have a drink and watch the world go by but no....we've all got to get in our cars and drive somewhere - but where? there are groups - seniors, yoga, exercise, the pub if you drink - but i do believe we need more, where the main thing is just to be able to hang out.
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saw these after my doctor's appointment today..
almost makes going to the doc's a good thing..
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and it's not just seniors who have no place to hang-out. When I was a kid everyone would take their car to the local park and spend the day waxing it and showing it off - no more. It seems that everything that people used to do that was free and fun - for any age - has become either illegal or simply impossible. Frustrating.
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Lisa those roses - I swear I could smell them. so beautiful.
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Glad you liked them flannel
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I was just gonna say what flannel said - honest, Lisa, we really could SMELL them - just gorgeous. We are still brown, some maple trees have buds, my daffodils are 3 inches of green shots - a little farther down the hill, a friend has them IN BLOOM - I'm so jealous
But it was gorgeous today, sunny, in the 60's - SPRING - I swear everything feels better when the sun shines & the air is a bit warmer...been a very VERY long winter - can't wait to plant my Sugar Snap Peas, ground is still a little too heard, but in a week or so of 60 degrees - should be time!!!!!!
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we're house hunting in a very desultory fashion. Right now we are renting a townhouse. I am SO JEALOUS of everyone who has a garden or is planning one. For a very short period of time we considered buying a townhouse, but we both realized that we really want a bit of ground - enough for a simple little garden and some flowers. But not enough to exhaust us (our last place was a couple of acres and I could never keep up with everything - don't want that much again)
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Garden, Do you have room for a few pots? Or a balcony? A co-worker was giving away tomatoes she had raised on her balcony. Not sure I would ever want to live in an age-restricted community, but one near here has front yard maintenance and a choice of back yards. I think the choices were raised bed, large patio, or water fountain. My son is raising huge amounts of food on a small city lot. I think I would be as envious as you without some yard for growing.
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where we are right now we have nothing - not even room for a pot. In the front is a small square of ground (about 2ft square) that we are not allowed to change in any way. There is no balcony. We can open a sliding door at the other side of the house, but cannot step out. There is a gate in place at the door which overlooks the driveway for the townhouse garages. We would never purchase something such as this, but it was the best we could do when in a great rush to find a home once we realized ours was truly going to close. We have another 7 months on the lease and do not intend to be here once the lease is up.
Hubby is looking harder than I for a new place - preferably land where we can build what we want - but that is a little more costly and we are both looking to be extremely frugal - so who knows what we'll end up with. Maybe nothing.... As my husband tells me each morning, the adventure continues.
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gg - have you looked at any of the Modular Homes available now - I am in AWE of how good some of them are. A good friend put up her house, well, had it put up, in a matter of weeks, literally. There are so many available now - and you can make changes to the basic plans for most of them.
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We have. Unfortunately, they are far more expensive than we expected. Right at this instant, I think he's narrowed things down to either a home in Olympia (would be built by the developer), or a lot much closer to Seattle that he happened upon - if we get that one, we'll probably (possibly?) go with a modular.
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I like to call myself a spiritual atheist with Buddhist and humanistic leanings. But because I really like hanging out with like-minded and/or open-minded people this naturally makes me a full-fledged Unitarian Universalist! check it out: www.uua.org
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It's been way too long since there was a post on this thread so I thought perhaps a picture would be worth a thousand words.
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Beautiful!
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thanks, notself, a very, very, very timely reminder of what we all need to learn/know, by heart
now I have to find out who the author is....thanks again.
eta - very interesting young woman http://justinegraykin.wordpress.com/about-the-writer/
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Thanks, notself that is beautiful. Thank you Sunflowers for the additional link.
It's nice to see some activity here. I've been troubled by allergies which has made it difficult to spend much time on the computer. I'm glad I checked in now.
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I'm glad to see this thread active again.
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rr - I can empathsize - aaahchoooo...ragweed here. Finally found that taking a Zyrtec when I go to sleep seems to work. The generic, tried all the others, nada. Chinese medicine gets me thru most of the year, but when ragweed hits, ZAP. Also, still using a steroid inhaler ( rom last year's flu/bronchitis) called Flovent - and it really seems to make my allergies easier too. But we've had a few hideous days -
This thread is kind of a refuge in these challenging world days - either that, or hide under the duvet, which also helps deal with the world!!!!!
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Sunflowers, the allergy meds keep my sneezing down to an ok level and my breathing's ok but my eyes itch and burn like crazy. I have dry eyes to start with so between the allergens irritating my eyes and the allergy meds drying my eyes out even more it's not pretty. I use eye drops all day long and when I go outside for awhile I then use an eyewash followed by eye drops. I'm really hoping for an early frost.
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Eyes - itching. Know that one, also dry eyes, one of my friends wears those HUGE protect your eyes plastic glasses OVER her regular glasses when she's outside. I even loaned her my pair from my silversmithing days when she was here without hers. They REALLY do keep alot of the "environment" away from your eyes. Easier of course if you don't need to wear glasses underneath them. But I'm with you on ready for frost - it was in the 90's here yesterday, and thunder boomers bringing it down to 60 by tomorrow.
As all the "almanacs" are saying COLD & SNOW for the NE winter....I don't want it to come tooooo soon - home heating oil more expensive per gallon than gasoline...the mind, what's left of it, boggles.
Still, trying to stay calm...
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sunflowers - the mind, what's left of it, boggles....the mind may be smaller, but it's deeper....
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A little something from the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
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I love the Flying Spaghetti Monster prayer!
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notself, I'm glad I set my coffee mug down before reading that. Love it!!!
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