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    PapaFoote  80, Male, Michigan, USA - 193 entries
18
Mar 2012
8:31 AM EST
   

"Long-range goals keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures." - James Cash Penney
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    PapaFoote  80, Male, Michigan, USA - 193 entries
17
Mar 2012
6:53 PM EST
   

Civilized

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" - Abraham Lincoln

If "Hate" and "War" are still around Planet Earth - it seems that we still have not been civilized - YET! - The Old Goat
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    PapaFoote  80, Male, Michigan, USA - 193 entries
17
Mar 2012
4:09 PM EST
   

Catch The Winds

I agree, Mark Twain - just because you get older, doesn't mean your mind cannot "catch the winds in your sails"! The Old Goat
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    PapaFoote  80, Male, Michigan, USA - 193 entries
16
Mar 2012
7:52 PM EST
   

Civilization

Tonight,

Most folks seem to just focus into the "present" - for me, the focus seems to be from centuries back, through the present, and on to what might be the future - centuries forward! I feel like "we" are just starting to be more civilized, that we have a lot of centuries to go before actually getting into real, civilized, better living for everyone!

Still, I feel OK about where we are going - because, down deep within each person, there are some "truths" - like choices -"good vs. bad" thinking amongst many others! It will be the individuals, folks like "you" and "me", that make the civilization happen, with their own small shoulders inching into the future!

Please, don't get unhappy about this stuff - just try again. It eventually will work out in the future - even though "you" and "me" may have "cut out of our own lives"!

The Old Goat
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    Naobi  27, Female, Virginia, USA - 7 entries
15
Mar 2012
5:30 PM EST
   

Dont Need You

"Its sad to say i don't care anymore. I'm fed up with the uneccessary ways that you have, and the stupid shit that makes you laugh. They way you wear your snapback, Never realized all the things that you lack. Never will you misstreat me, never will you diss me. You said the sweetest things that you knew i wanted to hear, no more will i listen or ever again shed a tear. I now know that you don't care and how you never did, You really didn't mean that much to me, and it makes me happy to be able to see, that i no longer need you and i am free."

� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �- Naobi Makala Cook
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    PapaFoote  80, Male, Michigan, USA - 193 entries
14
Mar 2012
7:10 PM EST
   

Do Not Be So Sure!

Tonight, I'm thinking again about racial thinking, and all that goes with it! "Color" stands out, BUT, "religious" thinking, "political" thinking, "national' thinking, 'territory' thinking, "conservative" thinking, "progressive" thinking - and on, and on, and on, seems to be a bigger problem than just "black" vs. "white"! Some folks seem to understand that when we really, really, don't know, "we" need to try to figure things out as best as "we" can - sort of like the "middle" ground, where "we" don't have all the answers! Out in the MORE "conservative" or "progressive" thinking, some folks seem to be too sure about there "answers"! "We" have a great distance to go before we get closer to being civilized! -- Take care, Papa Foote, The Old Goat
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    PapaFoote  80, Male, Michigan, USA - 193 entries
14
Mar 2012
5:47 AM
   

"Choices"

Yes, choices are for "everyone", everyday - regardless of race, place of living, poverty or wealth, or some other thing that "YOU" think needs taking care of! The Old Goat
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    bloggingmylife  57, Female, California, USA - 3 entries
14
Mar 2012
11:54 AM CST
   

Living Well with the Pains of Lupus!

Pain spoke to me this morning!� On the scale of 0 to 10, it is speaking to me at a low 1.
I acknowledged it with a "Hello" and thanked it for reminding me that it here.� This is a normal daily conversation that I have with it.� I know it may sound weird to many that I have personified my pain.� And when I speak of pain, its usually the cramping, the tingling and burning needle prick sensations, swelling, and vasculitis localized from my knee down to my feet.
I have been feeling pain daily, and whats even worse is feeling pain hourly somedays for the last 12 years.� Its a normal occurance now.� I cant remember what it actually feels like to BE pain free.� Its foreign to me.� There had been a handful of days when I didnt feel any significant discomfort and I would stop myself and say," where is the pain" like I should be expecting pain but it isnt there.
it is possible to live well with pain.� I am living proof of it.� For many the pain can be so gigantically impossible to live with so they resort to pain meds, drugs, alcohol, antidepressant drugs, surgery, or possible suicide to get rid of the pain.� PAIN is EVIL and EVIL is scary to confront!!� And I am confronting EVIL on a daily basis drug free and surgury free�
How am I doing it?� With toughness and grace.� I researched about the disease in the internet at its infancy stages and got some effective help from alternative medicine, holistic nutritionists, energy healers, and spiritual counseling from my religion, Scientology.� Its taken me a third of my life to heal myself...but I am not pain free yet.� It is my personal goal to find ways to erradicate pain completely from my body and consciousness.� I am committed to do that this lifetime.� It may sound like an impossible dream but I trust the Universe for its granting and giving powers of optimal health and wellness.� I truly deserve to be pain free and it is certainly my Devine Right to be so.,� In the meantime, I AM LIVING WELL WITH PAIN.
When I say toughness and grace, it doesnt mean that I dont cry, feel angry, limp around, feel depressed and suppressed, nor do I dont feel beaten up when I have a flareup.� I do feel all of that and then some...however, I am BEING conscious and aware...and I take lots of deep meditative breaths all day long or as long as I can get to a space and time to apply self care.� And most times, I have to wait several hrs before I can get home to rest and ice my legs.� With all the training and counseling that I received from my church, I have been able to BE present in pain and Be able to exist in pain with acceptance, foregiveness, love, and appreciation.� The thoughts that goes through my mind when I am in pain makes a huge difference in my ability to experience the pain gracefully.� Ive learned to think loving positive thoughts and exercise happy and positive feelings.� And when a bad negative thought or feelings congests my mind and heart, I ignore it or I just "push it away".� Not so easy to do.� Being present in Pain is hard to do.� It takes practice, practice, discipline, love and foregiveness, and toughness. �Give it a try...it might just surprise you.
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    PapaFoote  80, Male, Michigan, USA - 193 entries
13
Mar 2012
6:06 AM EST
   

Today, Sometimes, I may have annoyed others - now, I am trying not to! The Old Goat
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    PapaFoote  80, Male, Michigan, USA - 193 entries
12
Mar 2012
6:05 PM EST
   

"Take Care" Good Morning, Yes, if you only take care of yourself, there is no point in living in our Earth Planet - you should go somewhere else where nobody cares! The Old Goat!
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