posted April 20, 2010 07:11 PM            

In fact yesterday whilst getting meds for my
tooth and ear infection, a strange thing happened!
I was hurting very badly but suddenly this stranger, a man began giving me sympathy, and it felt very sincere! Even though my pain was awful, we connected, really connected! There was more than that, but lets just say for the moment....something, a memory, a recognition was heavily at work!
The same was felt and experienced by my husband, a definite recognition on a soul level about this man. That whoa feeling, that wanting to shout out.."omg its really you! Its been soooo long!"
He appeared to be betwixt my age and my husband's age...40 to 55 or so.
I am guessing mid 40s.
Wonder if we will encounter him again under better circumstances?

posted April 21, 2010 10:41 PM            

Thank you dear one!
I KNOW you care!
Blessings and love to you!

posted April 30, 2010 07:54 PM              

I heard about your tooth...

I had the same thing recently,
and the pain was unbearable.

I found the only thing that worked was drinking ice water every minute or two.
The water numbs the pain, very briefly.

I was up all night for two nights in a row,
sippping ice water every minute or so.

We were lucky to get an early appointment.

My sympathies. I know it's no fun.

posted April 30, 2010 09:02 PM            

That is hilarious.

Back in the long ago days of my happy marriage years, my husband loved Calvin & Hobbes, so I would always buy him one of those biggie books, every ocassion.

He, in his Cap way, would read, and read, just barely grinning here and there.
Then unexpectedly in the middle of the night, I would be awaken to the sound of uproariously LOUD laughter, so bad that tears were squirting out of his eyes, he couldn't catch his breath... you know the symptoms!

And I would say, "Why do you always do THAT??" He said, "I like to let them slowly build on me, until a totally ridiculous random one just makes it so I can't hold it in anymore!!!!" VERY CAP, that!

But it always amused me soo.. thanks for the memories! He always said I was Calvin, and he was Hobbes, slipping around quietly doing cappy things, while my loud Sag/Aries Calvin self always got in trouble for them!!!

posted May 01, 2010 12:52 AM            

Let me bring you songs from the wood:
To make you feel much better than you could know -
Dust you down from tip to toe -
Show you how the garden grows -
Hold you steady as you go -
Join the chorus if you can:
It'll make of you an honest man.

Let me bring you love from the field:
Poppies red and roses filled with summer rain
To heal the wound and still the pain
That threatens again and again
As you drag down every lovers' lane.
Life's long celebration's here.
I'll toast you all in penny cheer.

Let me bring you all things refined:
Galliards and Lute songs served in chilling ale.
Greeting well-met fellow, hail!
I am the wind to fill your sail.
I am the cross to take your nail:
A singer of these ageless times -
With kitchen prose and gutter rhymes.

Songs from the wood - make you feel much better
Songs from the wood - make you feel much better

Songs from the wood
Songs from the wood

Let me bring you love from the field:
Poppies red and roses filled with summer rain
To heal the wound and still the pain
That threatens again and again
As you drag down every lovers' lane.
Life's long celebration's here.
I'll toast you all in penny cheer.

Songs from the wood - make you feel much better
Songs from the wood - make you feel much better

posted May 01, 2010 12:56 AM            

"The Clasp"

We travelers on the endless wastes in single orbits,
gliding cold-eyed march towards the dawn behind
hard-weather hoods a-hiding.
Meeting as the tall ships do, passing in the channel
afraid to chance a gentle touch ---
afraid to make the clasp.

In high-rise city canyons dwells the discontent of ages.
On ring roads, nose to bumper crawl
commuters in their cages. Cryptic signals flash
across from pilots in the fast lane. Double-locked
and belted in --- too late to make the clasp.

Let's break the journey now on some lonely road.
Sit down as strangers will, let the stress unload.
Talk in confidential terms, share a dark unspoken fear.
Refill the cup and drink it up. Say goodnight and
wish good luck.

Synthetic chiefs with frozen smiles holding unsteady courses.
Grip the reins of history, high on their battle horses.
And meeting as good statesmen do before the T.V.
eyes of millions, hand to hand exchange the lie ---
pretend to make the clasp.

posted May 01, 2010 08:07 AM            

Thanks, hon, for the trip down memory lane, and the realization that there ARE good memories, sometimes we just choose to forget them, and dwell on the bad ones.

I appreciate the reminder, more than you could ever know. I think I will make an extra effort to be kind to him, at least for today.

And that my friend, is the ripple effect.

posted May 02, 2010 04:22 PM            

INFJ

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Qualitative analysis of your type formula
You are:
* very expressed introvert

* distinctively expressed intuitive personality

* moderately expressed feeling personality

* moderately expressed judging personality

Custom Keirsey Temperament Report

Your Keirsey Temperament Sorter Results indicate that your personality type is that of The IdealistTM.

All Idealists share the following core characteristics:

* Idealists are enthusiastic, they trust their intuition, yearn for romance, seek their true self, prize meaningful relationships, and dream of attaining wisdom.

* Idealists pride themselves on being loving, kindhearted, and authentic.

* Idealists tend to be giving, trusting, spiritual, and they are focused on personal journeys and human potentials.

* Idealists make intense mates, nurturing parents, and inspirational leaders.

Idealists as a temperament, are passionately concerned with personal growth and development. Idealists strive to discover who they are and how they can become their best possible self--always this quest for self-knowledge and self-improvement drives their imagination. And they want to help others make the journey. Idealists are naturally drawn to working with people, and whether in education or counseling, in social services or personnel work, in journalism or the ministry, they are gifted at helping others find their way in life, often inspiring them to grow as individuals and to fulfill their potentials.

Idealists are sure that friendly cooperation is the best way for people to achieve their goals. Conflict and confrontation upset them because they seem to put up angry barriers between people. Idealists dream of creating harmonious, even caring personal relations, and they have a unique talent for helping people get along with each other and work together for the good of all. Such interpersonal harmony might be a romantic ideal, but then Idealists are incurable romantics who prefer to focus on what might be, rather than what is. The real, practical world is only a starting place for Idealists; they believe that life is filled with possibilities waiting to be realized, rich with meanings calling out to be understood. This idea of a mystical or spiritual dimension to life, the "not visible" or the "not yet" that can only be known through intuition or by a leap of faith, is far more important to Idealists than the world of material things.

Highly ethical in their actions, Idealists hold themselves to a strict standard of personal integrity. They must be true to themselves and to others, and they can be quite hard on themselves when they are dishonest, or when they are false or insincere. More often, however, Idealists are the very soul of kindness. Particularly in their personal relationships, Idealists are without question filled with love and good will. They believe in giving of themselves to help others; they cherish a few warm, sensitive friendships; they strive for a special rapport with their children; and in marriage they wish to find a "soulmate," someone with whom they can bond emotionally and spiritually, sharing their deepest feelings and their complex inner worlds.

Idealists are relatively rare, making up no more than 15 to 20 percent of the population. But their ability to inspire people with their enthusiasm and their idealism has given them influence far beyond their numbers.

* Mohandas Gandhi (Counselor/Idealist)

* Eleanor Roosevelt (Counselor/Idealist)

*Carl Jung (Counselor/Idealist)

* Siddhartha [Buddha]

*Plato
"Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth."

This is how Albert Einstein eulogized one of the most inspiring and influential men of the twentieth century, Mohandas Gandhi. Not only did Gandhi almost single-handedly free India and its five hundred million people from their long subjection to the British Empire, but he did so without raising an army, without firing a gun or taking a hostage, and without ever holding a political office. How could one slight, soft-spoken man accomplish such a remarkable feat? The answer lies in the overpowering force of his character.

Like George Washington one hundred and fifty years before him, Gandhi knew he could never defeat British colonial power in armed confrontation, but, at the same time, he had no interest in waging a Washington-style logistical war that would outlast the British forces, wearing them down to the point of relinquishing power. To be sure, it was not in Gandhi's nature to contemplate military resistance in any form. Gandhi's interests and talents lay in the area of personal diplomacy, or the skillful handling of people, and he instinctively sought to oppose the British Raj on humane, moral, even spiritual grounds. Gandhi believed that an entrenched political and economic system could only be revolutionized by spiritual ideas, and so, over a period of years, he developed and implemented his own NF style of civil disobedience, what he called "satyagraha," a nobly principled, highly disciplined, courageously ethical strategy of non-violent passive resistance. Simply and effectively, Gandhi brought the British to their knees with a moral power that author and Gandhi disciple William Shirer referred to as "soul force."

Gandhi's immediate objective was political freedom for India, and yet, for all his social activism, he never lost sight of a higher goal for himself and his people, the quest for divine truth and justice, for human dignity and integrity, for the true knowledge of God. Perhaps drawing on the ideas of Platonic Idealism, Gandhi wrote:

All that appears and happens about and around us is uncertain, transient. But there is a Supreme Being hidden therein as a Certainty, and one would be blessed if one could catch a glimpse of that Certainty and hitch one's wagon to it. The quest for that Truth is the summum bonum of life. [Gandhi, An Autobiography, p 250.]

Rare indeed is the man or woman with such confidence in a Certainty beyond earthly certainty, in a Truth behind the worldly illusion of truth. Ideal truth, ideal human integrity, ideal justice, not to mention ideal relationships and ideal moral virtue: so ardently devoted are the Gandhi's of this world to their various ideals that we need not hesitate to call them the Idealists. Plato, remember, thought of them as taking the Philosophic role in society, Galen named them the Choleric or Enthusiastic temperament, and Isabel Myers touched on many of these same characteristics when she described the NF or Emotional types as creative, enthusiastic, humane, imaginative, insightful, religious, subjective, and sympathetic.

Excerpted from Please Understand Me II

Copyrighted 1997 David Keirsey

posted May 02, 2010 04:27 PM            

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Just popping in to say hello.

I really love your signature, Lexx.
Haven't been around LL much to know what is going on in people's lives, etc. I hope you are doing ok.

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