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[Jamarz]

Originally Posted by lunamoth

Hi again Jamarz, my CO neighbor ,

Don't be intimidated by the threads, you can swim as fast or slow as you'd like. I typically just tread water myself. I have learned a lot here and the experience of trying to explain what I think to other people has really helped me clarify and understand my own beliefs, and reading others has opened up many new ideas for me. We're small, but we are a community (and we have our squabbles as well, just like other families ).

Glad to hear you are feeling better after your dark night. Again, welcome to the boards.

luna

Thanks, sometimes I will tread and other times I'll probably sink, but I know that I do need to do this so I will probably whine once in awhile.
Anyway, I had better run for now. I can't believe that you are a Libra, too.
My grandson was born in the beginning of October last year so he is a Libra. Almost time for his first b-day.

[lunamoth]

We are going to have to start a lovely Libra lionesses club...

[Jamarz]

Originally Posted by flowperson

Hi Luna !

Took my Mom to a Sonic drive in last night an we both got one of their $.99
mini-banana splits. It wasn't huge by any measure, but was delicious and certainly filled our sweet teeth. I highly recommend them along with McDonald's $.99 sundaes, especially the hot fudge with nuts. Not so many calories or fat in such small treats either !

Not exactly what one might call a spiritual experience, but a valuable, albeit small, break from the grim routines that life becomes if we let it.

flow....

Hola flow,
Ice Cream has been of my staples thru this hot summer(and I wonder why I have gained 8 lbs ) and I am a Dreyers Ice Cream freak. I used to live in Oakland, California near Grand Avenue, their original store where it all began. My two favorite flavors are Rocky Road and Carmel Delight, Light with 1/2 the fat. I put Carmel Delight in my coffee (yes, I am a strong coffee lover) and wow, much better, cheaper and lower in calories than a Starbucks.

[flowperson]

Hi Jamarz !

Speaking of coffee, I limit myself to one cup when I get up and go to work, so I savor really good coffee. Trader Joe's seems to have the best raw materials for a good cup.

My daughter left a bag of Lion macadamia coffee from Hawaii here on her way back to the midwest where she's spending the summer. I'd never had it before. The bag says that they've been growing and roasting it since 1894, AND IT'S THE BEST I'VE EVER TASTED.

Don't know where she got it, but she lives on the beach in L.A. Try the specialty stores there. You might get lucky, Libra lioness. By the way one of my great grandmothers was named Libra. Just another small world thing, but I refer to such happenings as harmonic convergences.

Welcome back to the light. I've also been where you've been, and it passes with time and self-care. Keep writing when the Spirit speaks to you. It's what we're here for.

flow....

[Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine]

Ah, just getting ready for a couple of "major" things here: school starts September 5th (and I'm still not sure if my twice a week class is going to be held), plus I'm going to be helping out the couple of friends who have helped me out when I really needed a hand (he currently works with a very local alternative paper and she has found out that she's on a fellowship in math sciences, plus they are moving into a brand new apartment complex towards the end of August.) I'll be "swordsitting" their "cutlery", also.

I also have another new manager (three in the past month and a half) and at least two evictions plus one voluntary move. One of the downstairs neighbors is trying to help her furred purrson/"manager" who is dealing with cancer and the guy across the hall from me has been given a warning to "turn down the volume" (or he'll get evicted.) The fire marshall gave him a lecture for blocking the door in his apartment with an armchair as in placing the chair in the middle of the hall inside his apartment (a hazardous situation in case of emergency) as did the people who help do maintainence (both the fire marshall and the maintainence people were .)

Anyway, I'll wait in giving congratulations to the parents-/grandparents-to-be until the births, okay?

*the :kitty: delegation comes into the thread and sniffs everybody, some of the :kitty:s latching onto a member or two*

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

[flowperson]

When I was writing more often than not I had a large orange tabby that insisted on walking on my keyboard. That made editing a real chore. He's gone now...miss him....

flow....

[InLove]

Hi, Peace--

Oh boy, is this a great thread or what?

Luna the Libra Lioness--I must say it fits! And I have always been drawn to Libras, being an Aquarian and all....

Flow--my cat does the same thing. Makes for some interesting writing, huh? I miss all my pets that are not with me anymore, at least not where I can touch and feel and hear them in the same way.

Phyllis, my friend, I need to get a whole kitty company together to come and solve all of the madness surrounding you at the moment! But alas, I am not the greatest at directing kittys. They do, however, tend to curl in and out around my feet and offer lots of wisdom and love. I just have to be careful since I am just now walking again without waddling too much . But to me, it feels like flying!

Jamarz, I am a coffee lover to a degree that might not even be healthy at times! But I try. LOL--I have mostly always taken my java black, but during my illness, I rediscovered cafe con crema (sorry for the exclusion of the tildes and such). I would get up at 4:30 when I was hospitalized so I would be back in time for the doc's rounds. I would take my notebook or my sketchpad and go to the 24-hour restaurant there and get coffee, and spike it with the cream my husband and daughter brought me. I would go outside in the garden area and I would write and write and write. Or I would draw something (not very well, I suspect). And sometimes I would meet a person with a story who would sit down beside me and talk. It was a time full of all kinds of awakening.

InPeace,
InLove

[lunamoth]

Originally Posted by InLove

Jamarz, I am a coffee lover to a degree that might not even be healthy at times! But I try. LOL--I have mostly always taken my java black, but during my illness, I rediscovered cafe con crema (sorry for the exclusion of the tildes and such). I would get up at 4:30 when I was hospitalized so I would be back in time for the doc's rounds. I would take my notebook or my sketchpad and go to the 24-hour restaurant there and get coffee, and spike it with the cream my husband and daughter brought me. I would go outside in the garden area and I would write and write and write. Or I would draw something (not very well, I suspect). And sometimes I would meet a person with a story who would sit down beside me and talk. It was a time full of all kinds of awakening.

InPeace,
InLove

That is a great story about your time of recovery InLove. I can just see you in the garden with you r sketchpad, listening to someone tell their stories. What a blessing.

luna

[Jamarz]

Originally Posted by InLove

Hi, Peace--

Oh boy, is this a great thread or what?

Luna the Libra Lioness--I must say it fits! And I have always been drawn to Libras, being an Aquarian and all....

Flow my cat does the same thing. Makes for some interesting writing, huh? I miss all my pets that are not with me anymore, at least not where I can touch and feel and hear them in the same way.

Phyllis, my friend, I need to get a whole kitty company together to come and solve all of the madness surrounding you at the moment! But alas, I am not the greatest at directing kittys. They do, however, tend to curl in and out around my feet and offer lots of wisdom and love. I just have to be careful since I am just now walking again without waddling too much . But to me, it feels like flying!

Jamarz, I am a coffee lover to a degree that might not even be healthy at times! But I try. LOL--I have mostly always taken my java black, but during my illness, I rediscovered cafe con crema (sorry for the exclusion of the tildes and such). I would get up at 4:30 when I was hospitalized so I would be back in time for the doc's rounds. I would take my notebook or my sketchpad and go to the 24-hour restaurant there and get coffee, and spike it with the cream my husband and daughter brought me. I would go outside in the garden area and I would write and write and write. Or I would draw something (not very well, I suspect). And sometimes I would meet a person with a story who would sit down beside me and talk. It was a time full of all kinds of awakening.

InPeace,
InLove

Peace and Love,
So happy to meet another coffee lover. Sometimes, I feel like a drug addict!! In my healthy eating circles, caffeine is a four letter word; but come on, what more can I give up? This is the only food/diet vice I have left.

Luna,
I must admit, lovely libra lionesses does just flow from the lips. Hmmm, I like the image of a lioness holding the scales of equality. Nice.

Flow and Phyllis,
I have a big black male cat with large green eyes who prances across my keyboard and blocks my screen. Also 2 mini-dachshunds, Phoebe and Joey, who curl around my feet, waiting patiently for me to pay attention to them. Henry, the black panther, wants what he wants right now. The three of them follow me around the house like a pack.

Joey and Henry are in love as Henry spends a great deal of time grooming Joey, who has the look of utter delight on his face. AHHH.. Both are neutered, of course, but what would one call same sex cross species love?


So my day begins.

[Abogado del Diablo]

Originally Posted by Jamarz

Sometimes, I feel like a drug addict!! In my healthy eating circles, caffeine is a four letter word; but come on, what more can I give up? This is the only food/diet vice I have left.

I know how you feel. I lived in Seattle in the 90s and got hooked on really good coffee. It was simply the way people socialized (at least the people I socialized with). It's hard to find good coffeehouses in Texas though. They are all Starbucks. And if you're from Seattle, you know that Starbuck's isn't that great.

We took the kids to Kona last month and I stuffed the extra space in my luggage with good, fresh coffee. So, for now, I get up a little early with my coffee press and enjoy a little warm nirvana as I prepare for the day.

Mmmmmm . . . .coffee . . . .

[lunamoth]

*the moth sheepishly raises her paw* Another coffee addict here. I enjoy my morning coffee, but can't drink more that two or three cups in the am without it disturbing my sleep. Funny though, I can drink tea in the evening and it has no effect on my sleep.

I love good coffee but the price of it is so high now that we've switched to an inexpensive, less enjoyable brand for everyday drinking. And when we visit our families they drink the 'half caf' stuff, which gives me withdrawl headaches. I have to drink a whole pot to get my fix.

Coffee ice cream...mmmm.

[Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine]

My late mother was the coffee addict (she'd make a 12 cup pot of coffee and drink the entire thing by herself.) She'd have it "colored water" (black, no sweetener.) She used to have coffee at the clinics she went to for her cancer treatments, too (some of the staff used to laugh at her description of how she took her "drug of choice".)

I, myself, am a tea enthusiast (I have a tea ball that I bring with me to school) and I've "introduced" a few different kinds of tea to a professor/friend of mine (nothing as pedestrian as the "usual" tea bag stuff.)

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

[Jamarz]

Phyllis,
I do love a good cup of tea, also. Usually around mid-afternoon with a scone or muffin (fat free, of course), but I do use tea bags. Love my Earl Grey, Irish Breakfast Tea, Peppermint and Ginger for digestion, and Zen Green Tea Blend.

I have been sitting at this computer long enough. Time to take my little dogs for a walk. Have a blessed day to each and everyone of you.

[Abogado del Diablo]

Originally Posted by Jamarz

Phyllis,
Love my Earl Grey, Irish Breakfast Tea, Peppermint and Ginger for digestion, and Zen Green Tea Blend.

Ginger is a great motion sickness cure, too.

[Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine]

Originally Posted by Jamarz

Phyllis,
I do love a good cup of tea, also. Usually around mid-afternoon with a scone or muffin (fat free, of course), but I do use tea bags. Love my Earl Grey, Irish Breakfast Tea, Peppermint and Ginger for digestion, and Zen Green Tea Blend.

I meant the "generic style" tea (most widely known is Lipton "Brisk" tea) not bagged tea in general. It's just that most of my favorites aren't available prebagged most of the time (like Gunpowder Green, Sow Mee White, Russian Caravan, Jasmine Pearl, Hyssop, etc.)

I have a special blend I drink for nervousness: it is a blend of chamomile, rose hips, lavendar, mint, hibiscus and lemon balm. It calms the butterflies and lunamoths that get active just before an oral presentation or some other "public appearance" (esp. before a government official.) I chew ginger instead of drinking it (I have to pick up another four cups of ginger from my favorite bulk spice shop here in town. *makes note*)

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine