Thanks! Some titles here caught my eye.

Last week my kid's mare got spooked by a plastic bag while said kid was riding her. They never flinched and everything was under control in a few seconds but you bet I was unable to breath while watching from afar.

Oh I've been there too! Read about it while planning my pregnancy. It made me feel so paranoic that I got the test done twice just in case. I never got sick with it, but paranoia was a removed.

Since then I have gotten mental health help to deal with anxiety etc.

Elfen Lied

I wish the person who laid down the stone paths you just described could read what you so beautifully wrote about their special place.

She was selected and placed there as a mere puppet of current president amlo. México is indeed a narco governement but people who don't actuallly experience it first hand living it every day think that this facade is true. She was married to a guy who was investigated for embezzlent but got off the hook because of political contacts. Her father was a chemist who owned a solvent factory (he has passed away and she inherited the business) with very sketchy practices regarding toxic waste management. Factory is still hers and it still operating under the same principles.

I grew up in many different places learning different languages meeting lots of people, (think army brat) and that fucked me up royally. Always being the New kid at school made me an easy target for bullying. Since I was moved around so much as a kid and had to interact with tons of different people one could assume I am a social butterfly.I am not.

What I am trying to say is that there is no normal, we are all quirky and unique with different sets of circumnstances and tragically that makes us all the same. Hang on! You will find a way.

I live now in an ultraconservative religious place (no choice) as an atheist but managed to find three friends and a spouse in the time I have been here.

I am a middle age woman who doesn't know much but I know this:

Sometimes the weight of the memories wil strike you like lightning and you can do nothing but sob and that is OK because you were his baby and he was your father. Sometimes you will feel angry too, and that is OK too.

I lost my dad suddenly too and at first I had tunnel vision just trying to get through the motions, then after paramedics said there was nothing else they could do I just let out a gutural sound that came from the very depths of my core. I could not believe he was gone and after the wake and all that I felt numb for months.

I just want ti tell you that, as corny as this might sound you can dm me anytime and I will try my best to just listen to you and share. ❤️

You sure are a pb&jelly connoiseur! I like your comments about the different kinds of jellies, jam, etc. I have never tried prickly pear but it sounds delicious. My personal favorite is passion fruit jam but I also like red currant jelly.

I am not a biologist but could you please share the name and author of the book? Sounds liek something I'd enjoy TIA

Ooh sweet baby fly high! You were the best girl ❤️

I don't know about nerdy enough but I found "The song of Achilles" by Madeline Miller so romantic! We all know the story of Achilles of course, but I found this book very refreshing because the one speaking is Patroclus. Beautiful ending.

It would be lovely to have a chance to experience hiking/ backpacking like this!

I have the feeling you were born and raised in the US and have never experienced life outside your own town/ city and just spew your opinion about places and situations you know absolutely nothing about. So let me enlighten your narrow anglo vision a bit:

Have you ever lived through something like what is described in the article? Have you ever experienced what a narcoestado entails? Have you ever been in a protest along searching mothers outside Palacio Nacional because ten thousand people disappeared in your country due to organized crime for this fool to keep having breakfast saying "they only want to destabilize my regime" and not even acknowledge your presence? Have you ever been blackmailed and had to pay organized crime to keep your business open for this president to say "abrazos, no balazos" ( hugs, not bullets)? Has anyone from your family been kidnapped for ransom money? If so, did you get help from governement agencies? With all of the above, how would you feel about your president saying the things in the article? I have experienced all of the above scenarios so kindly, stfu.

Thanks for sharing your recipe, they sound delicious and just perfect for an upcoming camping trip.

He is a demagogue through and through, all his term has been a joke and he has been fluffed up by his minions telling him what a wonderful man he is. Barf!

@Mr_Blott thanks for the Chalk Man suggestion I am half way through it and have loved it so far.

After I quit smoking, I wanted to do something with my hands so I bit my nails until it hurt.

Crochet was/ is something I can do with my hands and at the end I get a cool hat or a nice scarf. Yarn gets expensive, tho.

Whoa! Lots of assumptions there, pal. Projection much?

I never said it was cheating or a shortcut, that was all you. I never said people like you should die. You do you and good if it has worked so far, but that does not mean that it is going to work for every single person who gets this suggested by their doctor.

That does not mean that every person getting this surgery comes out of it scot free forever, look at the data. Sorry to burst your bubble.

Calling me judgemental is not te flex you think it is.

Carry on.

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