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In reply to the discussion: My conclusion after my usual scrolling sesh this morning is [View all]electric_blue68
(15,987 posts)38. So sorry you were seriously threatened! How hideous! That certainly could give you...
... an even more of a staying on alert sense, way of being.
I certainly am not saying...
"everything is fine right now".
It's never been fine alot of the time for many people for similar, and different reasons. But many people look to the things that are good, and fine for however short, or longer term that might be.
I don't know how old you are but I was alive and active, aware in 1968, Then there was Nixon, Reagan...and onward.
I've been in this fight to various degrees since 1967 when I was 14. I know what helps me stay in it.
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I volunteer in the local (N.J.) swamp. There is fox poop, raccoon poop, muskrat poop and Great Blue Heron poop.
3Hotdogs
Apr 2024
#41
Nature can be wonderful, beautiful. But it also gives us our problems such as aging and diseases.
erronis
Apr 2024
#13
Where I live, there's this thing called weather that doesn't always cooperate.
ShazzieB
Apr 2024
#12
So sorry you were seriously threatened! How hideous! That certainly could give you...
electric_blue68
Apr 2024
#38