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- Fifty years ago today:Sitting for Justice: Woolworths Lunch Counter On February 1, 1960, four African American college students sat down at a lunch counter at Woolworths in Greensboro, North Carolina, and politely asked for service. Their request...
- Hi Community -----Two are up already. Just got a third, the address is pasted in below.Nothing about the production of these are easy ----- not the taping, not the editing, not the uploading. Submitted with due humility. Hopefully, more on the...
- A sad but necessary rememberance:This is Holocaust Rememberance Week. Sixty-five years ago, the Allied forces began liberating the concentration/death camps.A million and a half children were murdered. Millions of women and men were ruthlessly...
- IleneW's Companionship and Commitment ManifestoI believe there are good potential partners out there.I believe they're hard to find.I believe that I'll recognize trouble when I begin to see it, long before it becomes big enough to cause me...
- From today's Wolf's Daily Howl_______________In a world far too abundant with bigotry and abuse, enlightened souls step up.I won't attempt to list the famous ones here, because beyond the famous there have always been others working way, quietly.But...
- Pasted in from today's Wolf's Daily Howl____________________________________________I've stayed away from this topic over the last few days, because of the enormity of the pain and loss.An earthquake devastated one of the poorest countries on earth...
- Pasted in from today's Wolf's Daily HowlIn the work I do, I'm always looking for analogies to make what's happening emotionally, more visible.When an abusive relationship is relatively young, getting out is like being in a pit of quick sand. ...
- [[[[ From today's Wolf's Daily Howl ]]]]Greetings Community -----My warmest regards to you.I have a suggestion for anyone who's ever had a hard time practicing or maintaining a routine of self-care.Get a day planner or a calendar ---- preferably...
- Hello folks -----No matter what this past year brought you, whether it was the greatest or the worst, what one thing that you put together is the best thing that happened over the past twelve months?That one thing could be getting through a tough...
- On another thread, a poster wrote:Abusers are HUMAN too. They have feelings. the feelings may be different than ours, or others, but they're feelings none the less. They do feel pain. They aren't animals, reptiles, monsters, etc. Yes. Abusers are...
- From today's "Wolf's Daily Howl"Hello Gentlefolk ----Did anyone see Wednesday's Oprah?Here in Connecticut, a pet chimpanzee attacked a woman. The chimp's owner had called her friend (who was also an employee) to help her manage the 200-pound chimp,...
- Today's "Wolf's Daily Howl"My thoughts, on this Veteran's Day, are with the men and women who've served in the military of the United States of America, over recent years as well as long past decades.My father, gone but in my heart always, was a...
- I try, if I'm able, to do something special on October first, to kick-off Domestic Violence Awareness Month.Today, having survived my encounter with the medical system, I taped a public access TV program.It had its challenges, since I'm just coming...
- Hello DS community ----Last week, I had physical pain ---- on Tuesday, for a few minutes, and then on Saturday ----- bad and long ----- till I went to the ER.Pumped me full of morphine, and finally got the pain down.CAT scan showed something,...
- Marie, Jim and other dysfuncitonal couples -----Jim began his thread saying that Marie had invited him to join this group. I generally don't believe what abusers say, but sometimes victims bonded to an abuser have the misguided belief that the...