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Showing Original Post only (View all)How is Everyone Here Coping? I'm find it very hard these days.. [View all]
Last edited Tue Apr 23, 2013, 07:55 PM - Edit history (1)
What are YOU DOING to deal with what's going on?
Here's the kind of stuff we are doing: We are watching "All Creatures Great and Small" on Netflix. (Old PBS Series from very long ago)...for animal lovers everywhere...but I think folks today might find it "Dated" but, we find it comforting...
Then there's listening to MUSIC.....Oldies, Jazz Radio, stuff that's Nostalgia but gives us a sense of "comfort" from Days Past...for some reason.
I'm probably drinking a little too much "White Zin" ...than is healthy...but walking and exercising more...(but not enough) and trying to CLEAN OUT HOUSE of "non-essentials"...so I have a "Get Away Bag" for the Global Climate Change or the NEXT ATTACK wherever it comes from. Could be my local Nuke Plant Explodes or Chemical Train Wreck close to home that causes Fire and Damage.
I feel Besieged by "Forces Beyond My Control" and am feeling very ANGRY ...but also SAD about all of this.
I think many here TRIED for so long...and there is discouragement there. I'm NOT Giving Up Pollitcally....but, my spirit needs A BREAK!
SO....HOW ARE THE REST OF DU'ers COPING. I've been here SO LONG...that I feel there might still be a COMMUNITY HERE...and I want to hear from you...Especially the LEGACY DU'ers.. HOW ARE YOU COPING?
FUN/WEIRD STUFF/QUIRKY and even if you are KNITTING or VOLUNTEERING!
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Koko, sorry you feel so besieged. It's normal, I think. Here's some of the things I do:
Nay
Apr 2013
#3
YEP...Doing this at Bedtime.. 3. Read mysteries where the bad guys get their comeuppance.
KoKo
Apr 2013
#47
If you can watch TV and drink wine, you might consider that you have it pretty good.
randome
Apr 2013
#4
A chickadee Mom is sitting on 2 eggs in one of my birdhouses & a tuffted titmouse is building
FSogol
Apr 2013
#7
We bought a "Bird House" for Bluebirds... Three Generations have already Hatched...
KoKo
Apr 2013
#50
I gave my Dad 2 new bluebird houses for Christmas. He has them spread out over his
FSogol
Apr 2013
#117
I love what you are doing...! Thanks for posting this.. Sewing/Crafting and doing stuff
KoKo
Apr 2013
#57
My Pennsylvania gardens (shorter season) far exceeded my Raleigh ones -
NRaleighLiberal
Apr 2013
#95
dark beer, smoked brisket that i just finished in the smoker and old 007 movies on dvd
MikeW
Apr 2013
#18
I like to relax by doing jigsaw puzzles and watching cooking shows,play scrabble,play some Motown
SummerSnow
Apr 2013
#39
funny. I just posted the adagio from it last night (I hadn't seen your post) and
CTyankee
Apr 2013
#119
Beautiful, thank you...I love it when Bernstein gets that blissed out look
BeyondGeography
Apr 2013
#121
It probably sounds arrogant, but some days I pretend I'm looking over a vast garbage dump at a
RKP5637
Apr 2013
#52
I'm working out more. The endless fuckery of the right wing gives me a lot of emotional "fuel".
Flipper999
Apr 2013
#84
All who replied here and shared their experiences...made me feel a whole lot better....
KoKo
Apr 2013
#130
It is...especially when we were promised "So Much" and we worked so hard all these
KoKo
Apr 2013
#155
This must be why art is so often banned. Art has magic in it and can drive some people
CTyankee
Apr 2013
#146
this is tragic to the max. Children are artists first and foremost and we all know this if we
CTyankee
Apr 2013
#148
I want to drop off stuff but it is so daunting to me! I feel defeated before I even start!
CTyankee
Apr 2013
#152