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wulfar360:
david if i may say one thing? dont be so hard on yourself
i went through somthing similiar recently and a good friend reminded me it could be worse and gave some expamples of the worse lets just say its a sobering experience
one day our planet will wake up and realize we shouldnt hate we should work together and itll be a beautiful day but i dont think itll come in my life time but i have faith itll happen !
<hugs david925>
Arad-3:
David,
Thank you for posting those beautiful covered bridges. That last one almost looks like it could be a mobile trailer with it's window open. What a wonderful part of history that's worthy of the bragging and of course the perserving.
You know sometimes I feel the same way you felt about the vinegar today I have had that happen to me alot .Something small like the automatic coffee machine, mine especially, go all over the counter. I have thrown so many of them out. That sends me into a "why me?" Why is it that every coffee maker I get do this? Other peoples dont! Then I get feeling mad, sad at the same time, like I cant take this any more! Then I watch the news and I see another high school has a shooting. More students have been shot. All this going on when I was feeling sorry for myself about a f**ing coffee mess.
I have a daughter in tenth grade. I count my lucky stars when I see whats going on on tv. We are only human. We do get sick and tired of these everyday aggravations. But how lucky we are that all it is is spilled coffee or vinagar. Your right, lets not ever forget.
P.s Bottom line I have decided that :) I am getting a perculator.!!
Geri
David In Indy:
Geri... I totally agree.
Also, I heard about those terrible shootings in Florida and Colorado. I can't imagine how stressful this is for parents.
It's weird how something so small can trigger a "meditation". I remember driving down I-465 (the interstate circling Indianapolis) and a huge semi truck passed me at a very high rate of speed. On the back of this truck was crushed cars. There must have been 12 of these cars piled up on the back of this truck. All of them were as flat as pancakes. On the bottom of the pile was a brand new Lincoln Town Car. Now, just about everyone knows Lincolns are very expensive cars, and yet, there it was.. crushed, with 4 or 5 flattened cars piled on top of it. A brand new Lincoln Town Car.
I started thinking about the person who owned this brand new, flattened Lincoln. How many ulcers did he go through to earn the money to buy this car? How many sleepless nights? And there it was... crushed and at the BOTTOM of the pile.
We go through this life trying our best to make our lives as happy and as comfortable as we can for ourselves and our loved ones. This is the way it should be. But we also spend a tremendous amount of time chasing after so many "other" things... a new HD Television, a new stereo, a new sports car, a new computer or a new leather jacket. I don't see anything wrong with purchasing these things. But what are we putting ourselves through in order to get them? Sometimes I think people (myself included) spend far too much time at work and earning that money, in order to afford all those "things". I wonder how many get togethers with friends I have passed up, or how many family reunions I failed to attend just so I could have all these "things"? "Things", "possessions" get old, break down, wear out and get crushed; just like that new Lincoln Town Car on its' way to the junkyard. And look at the "price" some of us pay in order to have them. :(
All that meditation from just watching a semi truck pass me on the interstate hauling a bunch of flattened cars.
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: Arad-3 on September 29, 2006, 12:20:11 am ---
P.s Bottom line I have decided that :) I am getting a perculator.!!
Geri
--- End quote ---
I just noticed your comment about the perculator. My mother owned a perculator years and years....... AND YEARS ago when I was very young. Do they still sell them? My mother's perculator had a little glass handle at the top. It was hollow and you could see through it. I loved watching the coffee jump up and down through that little glass handle. It was better than tv. I guess I was a weird kid, but I will never forget that perculator. It was very hypnotizing. :)
Arad-3:
David,
Yes I do believe they do sell them. My mother used to have one with the glass top too. I loved watching the coffee pop up and I loved to listen to it too. Something about that experience was very cozy to me. The coffee might of taken a little bit longer to make but it was so much better. I want one. no more proctor Silex or what ever they are. Its funny that we both had a "coffee maker meltdown" this week!
Its funny about the flattened cars. Your so right about people breaking their backs all their lives and miss out on so much just to drive a car like that. I know I have. It's so silly. We have got to take more time out to enjoy whats real and important everyday. In our case David., take time out to once again...." smell the Perculated coffee" :)
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