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- Hello, Friends! I look forward to engaging on this site daily. I am living a mostly-reclusive life, by choice, right now. But when I connect here, with others who understand what it feels like to experience extreme trauma and to work to overcome the...
- Good Morning, Friends! I am wondering what "Freedom" means to each of you? For me, it is, first of all, not being in jail. Most people get in trouble with the law when they are young. I was fortunate to avoid real problems when I was being a serious...
- Good Morning, Friends! I think the most valuable Skill I have learned in the past decade is forgiveness. We don't usually associate forgiveness as a "skill" yet it is so. It is something we must choose to do. The best work I have found is the...
- Hello, Friends! This just seems to be the season for me to end long-term relationships that have hit the rocks! This morning I got a call from a man who used to be one of two "best" friends, Jeff, for more than 20 years. He was originally a media...
- Good Morning, Friends! I have a special friend in my life who is quite a remarkable fellow. He was a Southern Baptist Minister until he came out as gay and was banished. He was involved in the ex-gay movement for a short period of time, and then the...
- Hello, Friends, I am realizing that I have a lifelong pattern of seeing the highest potential in people, and regarding them as if it were a reality. Then I build a pedestal and put them up on it, honoring them and encouraging them- perhaps even...
- Good Morning, Friends! Thank you to all those who supported me during my crisis over estrangement with my daughter. Your kindness truly helped me get through my painful feelings. As I mentioned, there was a break in the "clouds" when we texted each...
- Good Morning, Friends! I am living in a "Senior Affordable Living Community" at Sailboat Bend in Ft. Lauderdale. It is on Riverwalk at the Southeast bend of the 7th Avenue Bridge. Our building was completely renovated before we moved in four years...
- Hello Friends! Many years ago, the boss of the printing company I was working for told me about "The Floating Opera." I can't recall the entire description, but it amounted to this: some people will stay in your life always, others will pass by on a...
- Hello, Friends! I deeply appreciate the helpful insights that I have received for my difficulties in my relationship with my daughter. Yesterday there was a "break" in the conflict. Vena had posted on Facebook that she had been home sick with a...
- Good Morning, Friends! As I have been sharing with you my angst over the estrangement with my daughter, here is the latest chapter. Without intruding on her "NO contact" law, every month I am entitled to a significant amount of over-the-counter...
- Good Morning Friends!Perhaps I mentioned that I do not watch television. I have not watched television for most of my life. For years now, I listen to Public Radio during the day, which gives me factual news of the world, albeit on the liberal side,...
- Hello, Friends! I was a teenager during the advent of the drug culture. At fourteen I was sniffing glue, then smoking pot, then shooting morphine, and swallowing a lot of psychedellics. After a couple of bad "trips" I stopped using any drugs,...
- Hello, Friends! This is such a wonderful space to share feelings. The support and encouragement, as well as compassionate suggestions I receive, as well as see offered to others who are suffering, truly touches my heart. In AA there was a lot of...
- Good Morning, Friends, and Happy Father's Day to all the Daddys!The sky is a deep, dark grey, with just a slice of pearl over the palms in Himmarsee Village. Seems to fit my mood perfectly. Today I sent an email to my beloved daughter, Vena,...