"You are welcome" to come on my thread, stinking or not, anytime. You are my friends.
Two things fill my mind today, what is left of it. The first being the gossip and update on people unseen by me for two decades. I went to a very small Baptist affiliated school and we all knew one another. The folks I seen this weekend received a lot of confirmation from me that yes, they did know more about me than I'd ever admitted. It was wonderful, they had questions, they wanted to know about my life, etc. It was very gratifying.
The other is the Amish. I heard on a news report, and discussed with my old friends, that the families of the murdered school girls went to the family of thier killer and told them they forgave him, and went to his funeral. What a selfless act of compassion! They are free to greive their losses without the added burden of dealing with anger toward the killer. They can do that, I can certainly do the same on a smaller scale everyday.
Yes, I drank in college. I started drinking there at the age of 19 and told meself I was playing catch-up for years. Now I feel I just drink socially, but oh my how easy it would be to fall in that hole again.
My favorite memory of the weekend was telling two young sisters (in their early 20's) I once went to class where they were lecturing about nuclear war after dropping acid. I never laughed so inappropriatly in my life. The sisters were dumbfounded.