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You are having a carnal relationship with words; They explain every thing they describe every thing they're what you live for, they are your true love. "T", WT, Calgary

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One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well that the farmer had accidentally left uncovered. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway, so it just wasn't worth it to retrieve the donkey. He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone's amazement he quieted down. A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well. He was astonished at what he saw. With each shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing. He would shake it off and take a step up. As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and happily trotted off! Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our troubles is a steppingstone. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, never giving up! Shake it off and take a step up, AN, Key Largo, FL

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Re: peaceful moments - There is a saying, that I generally respect, about going where angels fear to tread....... but having been in distress myself with a different generation.....here is another idea, if old hat just forget it. As an adult I found that looking at the pressures on me at the time provided some insight into my evaluations of my parents as a teen and pre-teen. Part of my evaluations of parents were a product of pressures from environments out of the home. I was too young to realize that my parents were not aware of the pressures. My parents had a rude awakening about those pressures some 6-7 years later, and as a young adult I found that very entertaining, and enlightening too since they were largely unaware of how my environment evaluated people. But that was in a context of a good relationship with my parents overall, and in the context that the general community around me believed that my parents were successes, LHE, Calgary

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