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In reply to the discussion: I'm a hard person to love these days and I'll tell you why [View all]Hatchling
(2,323 posts)86. Thank you, Fumesucker
You expressed beautifully the thoughts I couldn't.
When Trek came on we only had a BW TV. This little old woman two doors down saw how much I loved it and invited me into her home every week to watch it in color. She and I didn't talk much but we enjoyed the program together. And I always went home elated with my heart and mind filled with dreams.
It's ironic in way. When Robin Williams died my friend was devastated and I had very little sympathy for her. After all, he was just an actor she didn't really know. Now I understand her grief. She knew him as well as I knew Lenard Nimoy. Someone who touched her life in precious ways was lost to her. I have to apologize to her for my insensitivity.
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I wonder what your intent is with your post. Tell me you are not chastising the OP author.
rhett o rick
Feb 2015
#5
I don't know you at all, but you seem to be someone who truly knows we're not our circumstances.
ancianita
Feb 2015
#56
I too, was stuck sick by the realization of what is and what could have been
Half-Century Man
Feb 2015
#7
I was at a family dinner table with some old friends quite a number of years ago..
Fumesucker
Feb 2015
#32
I know plenty of young people. I don't see what you do, particularly once they settle down,
ND-Dem
Feb 2015
#53
I am close with a good deal of young people whose energy, strength, and stability provides me much
appalachiablue
Feb 2015
#63
Do you know that MLK all but ordered Nichelle Nichols to stay on the show after the first season?
Fumesucker
Feb 2015
#19
I sadly concur. Today's Republican Party is hell-bent on destroying the planet. And the DEMS are
blkmusclmachine
Feb 2015
#45
The weather has been either wet and cold, icy or frigid so I haven't ridden much lately
Fumesucker
Feb 2015
#50
Hang in there my little green friend. The future is us. It is always within us to remake it.
leveymg
Feb 2015
#52
I think trade is a necessity, it's been going on for as long as we have been humans..
Fumesucker
Feb 2015
#59
"illegitimati non carburundum" (VERY bastardized latin for "don't let the bastards grind
niyad
Feb 2015
#78
There have been times when I have had doubts that there would be a better future...
1monster
Feb 2015
#85