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[Natalie]

I swear Ive havent laughed or felt GOOD about life as much as I do now. You guys are the best.

Its so weird that evrything is so full steam ahead, dont know where or how but I found love, relationships that really matter to me, right here.

I dont know what anything is anymore. Im running, or floating, on Gods love. Not flaky extremist words, but a true feeling of freedom. Something Ive been searching for all my life.

I hope someday to meet all of you fine people at OUR CURE dance and convention. What a day that will be huh?

[Jo]

Its a love thing Nat, for sure......God inspired place full of fabulous folk like YOU

Funny cuz Nancy said earlier about meeting up - once this is solved WE WILL have a party and I dont care how far away the venue is, I'm there!!

I imagine it to be very emotional and wonderful at the same time

BRING IT ON!!!

Jo xxx

[hilly]

Hi all in your lovely sparkling houses !! well done.. at the moment I've just not got the energy to work out and buy the appropriate things, one day I hope....... sorry I have'nt been around, things not too good.... the latest, fell over in the road yesterday, torn and bruised ligaments etc in both feet and so can't walk :<( but have to hobble to the the doc today as I have had an 'abnormal' result on a bowel cancer test... what next I wonder..... cheers me up to hear you all tho'. love, Hilly x

[carla]

Hilly Thats terrible . Poor you. I hope the family are looking after you .
Don't worry about the housework. It will still be there when your feeling better.
luv Carla xxxxx
I better at talking about housework than actually doing any, Hilly

[tcmgpt13]

Sorry to hear your worry Hillly, but remember that often these tests are wrong. If you ate meat for instance it will sometimes show positive on that test. So many things can effect tests, including the fact that often the results are misread by the technician. So I will Xfingers for you that everything will be okay. It is hard enough to worry about morgellons without having more added on.

Take care of yourself and as Carla says, no sense worrying about a clean house when you must be sore from that fall. I always used to love that poem about not worrying about the dust in the corners when the babies are young as there will come a day when they are no longer there to love as little children. I think we might substitute life for baby (at least those of us who no longer have young'uns):

"Cleaning and Scrubbing
Can wait 'til tomorrow
For babies grow up
We've learned to our sorrow
So quiet down cob webs
Dust go to sleep
I'm rocking my baby
And babies don't keep."

So probably a good thing for us all to remember with all the uncertainty morgs brings to us, to enjoy what moments we have with family and friends. Somehow the rest will take care of itself.

best to you, tcmxxxxoooo

[Jo]

Hi Hilly,

So sorry to hear about this. Keep your chin up hun and come and chat whenever yes? We love ya

Jo xxxx

[carla]

Your verse reminded me of this lovely poem Tc.
carla xxx

I took his hand and followed
- Author unknown

My dishes went unwashed today,
I didn't make the bed,
I took his hand and followed
Where his eager footsteps led.

We went off adventuring,
My little son and I...
Exploring all the great outdoors
Beneath the summer sky

We waded in a crystal stream,
We wandered through a wood...
My kitchen wasn't swept today
But life was full and good.

That my house was neglected,
That I didn't brush the stairs,
In twenty years, no one on earth
Will know, or even care.

But that I've helped my little boy
To noble manhood grow,
In twenty years, the whole wide world
Will look and see and know.

[hilly]

Carla, tcm and Jo, thanks so very very much.. It's so good to know you are there or rather here for me... great comfort. will let you know the results of the colonoscopy when I've had it. Much love, Hilly xxxxxxx My foot is very impressive, very very black ! lol...

ps. loved that poem Carla.. it's so true...

[carla]

Nowdays you don't have to brush stairs and wash dishes so it is easier to find time to take your son out adventuring.
But you don't dare walk in the woods because
there's too many psychotic crackheads lurking about.
You don't wade through any crystal streams either as they are all dark green and toxic.
And you don't see a summer sky anymore as it is shrouded by
the dreaded C-trails.
Carla xx

[tcmgpt13]

Here is what appears to be introductory essay to the book this man, Paul Loeb, has complied from different writers who wrote about their hopeful experiences, entitled: THE IMPOSSIBLE WILL TAKE A LITTLE WHILE. This introductory essasy is about keeping hope alive in a world which often leads us to despair. It is a long article, but fairly easy to read as it is well written and well thought out and divided into sections. Therefore I think it easier for us morgies to follow. If you have time I suggest reading the whole article. If not I have highlighted a paragraph from each section:

Paul Loeb - The Impossible Will Take a Little While


INTRODUCTION:
THE IMPOSSIBLE WILL TAKE A LITTLE WHILE
A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear

"This isn’t to say that fear is unfounded. Any clear-eyed view of the world recognizes that grave threats exist. I’ve already mentioned some of the most troubling—terrorism, war, economic ruin, global warming. To make matters worse, those in power often take advantage of large-scale threats, including those that are exaggerated or entirely manufactured, exploiting fear and feelings of vulnerability for their own gain. Today fear so dominates American society that people hesitate to speak out against such exploitation, worried that they may be deemed unpatriotic or simply ignored, marginalized. And how could someone who’s afraid to voice his beliefs be able to act on those beliefs, a far riskier endeavor? When fear dictates what we say and do, democracy itself is imperiled. The antidote to such paralysis is hope—defiant, resilient, persistent hope, no matter what the odds against us may be. As Jim Wallis, editor of the radical evangelical magazine Sojourners, writes, “Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, then watching the evidence change.”

Orientation of the Heart

"Nothing cripples the will like isolation. By the same token, nothing buoys the spirit and fosters hope like the knowledge that others faced equal or greater challenges in the past, and continued on to bequeath us a better world. Even in a seemingly losing cause, one person may unknowingly inspire another, and that person yet a third, who could go on to change the world, or at least a small corner of it. Rosa Parks’s husband Raymond convinced her to attend her first NAACP meeting, the initial step on a path that brought her to that fateful day on the bus in Montgomery. But who got Raymond Parks involved? And why did that person take the trouble to do so? What experiences shaped their outlook, forged their convictions? The links in any chain of influence are too numerous, too complex to trace. But being aware that such chains exist, that we can choose to join them, and that lasting change doesn’t occur in their absence, is one of the primary ways to sustain hope, especially when our actions seem too insignificant to amount to anything."

Community of Conviction

"Although we may never know, it’s possible that America’s recent peace movement similarly helped make further wars against countries like Iran and Syria less likely, even before our troops became mired in the shooting gallery of the Iraqi occupation. Whatever one thinks of the invasion of Iraq, and certainly decent people held positions both for and against it, several million ordinary Americans marched and spoke out to try and prevent it—the largest such protest in at least two decades, and for many, their first public stand, or their first in years. It wasn’t easy to voice opposition, given that the Bush administration overtly linked dissent with being an “ally of terrorism.” Yet people did, in every community in the country, joined by the biggest global peace demonstrations in history. This movement may have inspired the next Rosa Parks, Benjamin Spock, or Susan B. Anthony. It certainly marked the first steps for innumerable individuals who may be more emboldened in the future, possibly becoming the unsung heroes who ultimately make any change possible."


This Gorgeous World

"The natural environment may be more threatened today than in any other time in human history. Global warming, destruction of forests and other ecosystems, mass species extinction, pollution of aquifers, consumption of irreplaceable resources—the list is long and depressing. And that’s one reason why some people cannot imagine taking responsibility for anything beyond their own private lives. Yet for all the insults it has endured, that same natural world possesses a beauty and richness that can be a source of renewal. When I run, on Seattle’s many beaches or wherever I go during my travels, I start out weighed down by the ills of the world and all my personal obsessions. By a few miles in, the burden invariably lifts. I see the landscape with fresh eyes. I slow down, begin to take notice of little things in my surroundings, and soon enough it becomes clear again that humanity shares the earth with innumerable other creatures, and that the wild and not-so-wild places we inhabit together are sacred. Most important is the realization that we cannot exist apart from that non-human realm. The community of conviction is part of and dependent on the entire community of life. And to that larger and much older community we can always return to find hope."

Humility and Dignity

"Perhaps the most important lesson the interdependence this gorgeous world teaches is humility. Among other things, it counsels restraint. It says that giving up on life and the living is a form of arrogance. In “Only Justice Can Stop a Curse,” Alice Walker examines the politics of bitterness, the temptation to conclude that we’re destined for extinction: “Let the earth marinate in poisons. Let the bo mbs cover the ground like rain. For nothing short of total destruction will ever teach [us] anything.” But then Walker remembers the acts of others that have given her cause to hope, and resolves that she will not be defeated by despair. What is this but a form of forgiveness? And everyone needs forgiveness—ourselves, for not taking on every cause and winning every battle, as well as others, our neighbors and co-workers, relatives and friends, and especially those who disagree with our beliefs or accept the lies and misdirections now so commonplace in our culture."