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Muhammad Ali, Barack Obama, Baruch Spinoza, WTF?! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_reply@... wrote: This quote by whom?I figured that if I said it often enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest - uuuhh -not who you may think : that's Muhammad Ali [https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-U9cQIXWo_g0/UEH0y3F3ZoI/zQA/\ 2od3drdo4K8/s253/12+-+1] --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: On 03/19/2013 02:25 PM, turquoiseb wrote: My playtime crew is just as diverse, but on the whole just as happy. I've seen none of the classic Parisian depression on this trip so far, only joie de vivre. In this cafe there are tables of French people discussing art or sports or literature or TV personalities or philosophy, the common denominator amongst all of them is that they seem to all be having a good time. Being French, they don't overdrink, meaning that I cannot detect a drunk person in the joint. They just sip at their wines and their beers and enjoy them, not chug them for the purpose (like the Brits) of getting drunk and losing their inhibitions. My take on that is that the French simply have fewer inhibitions to lose, so they can enjoy their beverages for the taste, and not treat them as a drug, or a means to an end. The crowd is also ethnically diverse. There are North Africans here, and Chinese (Butte aux Cailles being next door to one of Paris' Chinatowns) and Vietnamese and Arabs and even a few French-bread French. And they don't seem to have any problem with all of them being French. I see that in the Netherlands as well, but here it's more laid back, as if tolerance were not just politically correct, but Just How Things Are Done. Me, right now I'm the guy in the corner sitting at a small table and typing on his laptop. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPmllQDYRMI#t=85s
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When I read your post, Ann, it brought me right into the coziness of the scene, however awkward that may sound (pt, over here, behind the other chair!) :-) Seriously, maybe because it is raining down here too, no wind, but a steady watering, I can picture the scene clearly. It sounds like an active and fulfilled life, and thank you for your lovely snapshot of it. I am on the other side of the curve these days. I retired suddenly, late last year, because I discovered I could. My wife has also retired, as planned, and the first few months have been full of sloughing off the remnants of scheduling from our long time careers. Instead of packing twenty tasks into a day, I am down to one or two. Took a little getting used to, re-establishing a much more leisurely rhythm, but I cannot really complain at all. As a child, I sailed the oceans on passenger/cargo ships, country to country, and my wife and I met after she had concluded sailing as a crew of two, in a 34 foot boat, around the world, visiting some of the same places I had been. So about three months ago, I booked a cruise for us. We sail in about 10 days, and I am really looking forward to it. Down the West Coast, Catalina Island, Cabo San Lucas, Puerto Vallarta and San Diego. From the description of the massive ship, it sounds like a combo floating Vegas and Disneyland, though there are quiet places to go as well. I am sure it will be an unforgettable experience, one way or another. PS It is *not* on the now infamous Carnival Cruise lines... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann awoelflebater@... wrote: ...I am sitting here in my beautiful house that my husband and I built, it is blowing and raining outside, I hear the wind in the chimney, the slash of water against the windows and I sense the presence of the man I love most in the world sitting behind me. On the couch next to him is my beloved dog Jesse who survived life-threatening paralysis thanks to a successful $13,000 back surgery. That is how precious she is to me. She follows me everywhere, looks for any opportunity to do something for me, brings me my horse brushes, carries my gloves, picks up a pen I have dropped. She radiates devotion and real dog love in my direction every waking moment. She sleeps under my side of the bed to stay as close to me as possible. I have just finished a dinner that my husband cooked for me consisting of fresh asparagus, new potatoes and organic farm raised lamb we buy from a good friend of ours down the road, who was a member of the Canadian Equestrian team and who now, at the age of 70, has retired her fabulous imported German dressage horse in order to raise sheep because she loves living on the land and having animals to feed and to nurture although she eventually has them slaughtered for their meat. I have put to bed six wonderful horses who rely on me to feed and house and keep them safe and secure. They are in their stalls now munching on green hay with clean pine shavings to lie on and I have secured the barn doors against the wind we are forecast to have tonight. I feel good about the fact that I can provide an environment of safety and routine for them. And I look forward to smelling their clean scent of horsiness in the morning as I walk into the barn at 7am precisely to start a new round of feeding, cleaning and exercising them. I run a business that I love. I take a few moments at the end of each day to assess how I did on this day and think ahead to tomorrow to determine how I can do it better. I love the women I employ and I enjoy the challenges dealing with the public and figuring out how to serve their needs the best I can. So, while I am not in Paris in some chic cafe watching the clientele savour their wine and I do not have the privilege of walking the scenic Parisian streets to return to my French apartment I am sitting here looking forward to tomorrow, hearing the wind and the rain, feeling my dog and my husband, still tasting the lamb, knowing the horses are settled and happy and that I live in one of the most beautiful islands on the planet. Would I like to be in Paris? Sure. Is there still life worth living elsewhere? I already answered that.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Man In Paris, v2.00
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote: When I read your post, Ann, it brought me right into the coziness of the scene, however awkward that may sound (pt, over here, behind the other chair!) :-) Seriously, maybe because it is raining down here too, no wind, but a steady watering, I can picture the scene clearly. It sounds like an active and fulfilled life, and thank you for your lovely snapshot of it. I am on the other side of the curve these days. I retired suddenly, late last year, because I discovered I could. My wife has also retired, as planned, and the first few months have been full of sloughing off the remnants of scheduling from our long time careers. Instead of packing twenty tasks into a day, I am down to one or two. Took a little getting used to, re-establishing a much more leisurely rhythm, but I cannot really complain at all. As a child, I sailed the oceans on passenger/cargo ships, country to country, and my wife and I met after she had concluded sailing as a crew of two, in a 34 foot boat, around the world, visiting some of the same places I had been. So about three months ago, I booked a cruise for us. We sail in about 10 days, and I am really looking forward to it. Down the West Coast, Catalina Island, Cabo San Lucas, Puerto Vallarta and San Diego. From the description of the massive ship, it sounds like a combo floating Vegas and Disneyland, though there are quiet places to go as well. I am sure it will be an unforgettable experience, one way or another. PS It is *not* on the now infamous Carnival Cruise lines... Nice for you both, wish you a pleasant trip ! As you know Maharishi blessed Catalina Island I believe in 1965, pictures here: http://www.maharishiphotos.com/mmyhlcl.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Free Man In Paris, v2.00
Carde, who is WTF? And please don't ask me to google (-: From: card cardemais...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 2:14 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Free Man In Paris, v2.00 Muhammad Ali, Barack Obama, Baruch Spinoza, WTF?! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_reply@... wrote: This quote by whom?I figured that if I said it often enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest - uuuhh -not who you may think : that's Muhammad Ali [https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-U9cQIXWo_g0/UEH0y3F3ZoI/zQA/\ 2od3drdo4K8/s253/12+-+1] --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: On 03/19/2013 02:25 PM, turquoiseb wrote: My playtime crew is just as diverse, but on the whole just as happy. I've seen none of the classic Parisian depression on this trip so far, only joie de vivre. In this cafe there are tables of French people discussing art or sports or literature or TV personalities or philosophy, the common denominator amongst all of them is that they seem to all be having a good time. Being French, they don't overdrink, meaning that I cannot detect a drunk person in the joint. They just sip at their wines and their beers and enjoy them, not chug them for the purpose (like the Brits) of getting drunk and losing their inhibitions. My take on that is that the French simply have fewer inhibitions to lose, so they can enjoy their beverages for the taste, and not treat them as a drug, or a means to an end. The crowd is also ethnically diverse. There are North Africans here, and Chinese (Butte aux Cailles being next door to one of Paris' Chinatowns) and Vietnamese and Arabs and even a few French-bread French. And they don't seem to have any problem with all of them being French. I see that in the Netherlands as well, but here it's more laid back, as if tolerance were not just politically correct, but Just How Things Are Done. Me, right now I'm the guy in the corner sitting at a small table and typing on his laptop. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPmllQDYRMI#t=85s
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Wonderful photos, Nablusoss, thanks for posting. Doc, hope you and wife have an incredible cruise. It sounds lucious. From: nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 6:17 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Free Man In Paris, v2.00 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote: When I read your post, Ann, it brought me right into the coziness of the scene, however awkward that may sound (pt, over here, behind the other chair!) :-) Seriously, maybe because it is raining down here too, no wind, but a steady watering, I can picture the scene clearly. It sounds like an active and fulfilled life, and thank you for your lovely snapshot of it. I am on the other side of the curve these days. I retired suddenly, late last year, because I discovered I could. My wife has also retired, as planned, and the first few months have been full of sloughing off the remnants of scheduling from our long time careers. Instead of packing twenty tasks into a day, I am down to one or two. Took a little getting used to, re-establishing a much more leisurely rhythm, but I cannot really complain at all. As a child, I sailed the oceans on passenger/cargo ships, country to country, and my wife and I met after she had concluded sailing as a crew of two, in a 34 foot boat, around the world, visiting some of the same places I had been. So about three months ago, I booked a cruise for us. We sail in about 10 days, and I am really looking forward to it. Down the West Coast, Catalina Island, Cabo San Lucas, Puerto Vallarta and San Diego. From the description of the massive ship, it sounds like a combo floating Vegas and Disneyland, though there are quiet places to go as well. I am sure it will be an unforgettable experience, one way or another. PS It is *not* on the now infamous Carnival Cruise lines... Nice for you both, wish you a pleasant trip ! As you know Maharishi blessed Catalina Island I believe in 1965, pictures here: http://www.maharishiphotos.com/mmyhlcl.html
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Drunk on what life has to offer she totters a little, stumbles and falls into a pile of leftover autumn leaves From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 7:38 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Free Man In Paris, v2.00 yeah: Repetition Is The Mother Of Retention but OTHO if this motherly-retained-repetition is so beautiful illustrated and described as these American-in Paris-posting i do not mind - do you? And if sometimes, on the steps of a palace or the green grass of a ditch, in the mournful solitude of your room, you wake again, drunkenness already diminishing or gone, ask the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock, everything that is flying, everything that is groaning, everything that is rolling, everything that is singing, everything that is speaking. . .ask what time it is and wind, wave, star, bird, clock will answer you: It is time to be drunk! - ( by Charles Baudelaire-translated by Louis Simpson - See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16054#sthash.ThV46WsO.dpuf by Charles Baudelaire translated by Louis Simpson - See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16054#sthash.ThV46WsO.dpuf)See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16054#sthash.ThV46WsO.dpuf) It is time to be drunk! --drunk of life Get drunk on what life has to offer --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_reply@... wrote: This quote by whom?I figured that if I said it often enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest - uuuhh -not who you may think : that's Muhammad Ali [https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-U9cQIXWo_g0/UEH0y3F3ZoI/zQA/\ 2od3drdo4K8/s253/12+-+1] --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: On 03/19/2013 02:25 PM, turquoiseb wrote: My playtime crew is just as diverse, but on the whole just as happy. I've seen none of the classic Parisian depression on this trip so far, only joie de vivre. In this cafe there are tables of French people discussing art or sports or literature or TV personalities or philosophy, the common denominator amongst all of them is that they seem to all be having a good time. Being French, they don't overdrink, meaning that I cannot detect a drunk person in the joint. They just sip at their wines and their beers and enjoy them, not chug them for the purpose (like the Brits) of getting drunk and losing their inhibitions. My take on that is that the French simply have fewer inhibitions to lose, so they can enjoy their beverages for the taste, and not treat them as a drug, or a means to an end. The crowd is also ethnically diverse. There are North Africans here, and Chinese (Butte aux Cailles being next door to one of Paris' Chinatowns) and Vietnamese and Arabs and even a few French-bread French. And they don't seem to have any problem with all of them being French. I see that in the Netherlands as well, but here it's more laid back, as if tolerance were not just politically correct, but Just How Things Are Done. Me, right now I'm the guy in the corner sitting at a small table and typing on his laptop. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPmllQDYRMI#t=85s
[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Man In Paris, v2.00
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Carde, who is WTF? And please don't ask me to google (-: WTF is the abbreviation for What The Fuck
[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Man In Paris, v2.00
That's, of course, William T. Faulkner! ;D --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Carde, who is WTF? And please don't ask me to google (-: From: card cardemaister@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 2:14 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Free Man In Paris, v2.00  Muhammad Ali, Barack Obama, Baruch Spinoza, WTF?! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_reply@ wrote: This quote by whom?I figured that if I said it often enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest - uuuhh -not who you may think : that's Muhammad Ali [https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-U9cQIXWo_g0/UEH0y3F3ZoI/zQA/\ 2od3drdo4K8/s253/12+-+1] --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: On 03/19/2013 02:25 PM, turquoiseb wrote: My playtime crew is just as diverse, but on the whole just as happy. I've seen none of the classic Parisian depression on this trip so far, only joie de vivre. In this cafe there are tables of French people discussing art or sports or literature or TV personalities or philosophy, the common denominator amongst all of them is that they seem to all be having a good time. Being French, they don't overdrink, meaning that I cannot detect a drunk person in the joint. They just sip at their wines and their beers and enjoy them, not chug them for the purpose (like the Brits) of getting drunk and losing their inhibitions. My take on that is that the French simply have fewer inhibitions to lose, so they can enjoy their beverages for the taste, and not treat them as a drug, or a means to an end. The crowd is also ethnically diverse. There are North Africans here, and Chinese (Butte aux Cailles being next door to one of Paris' Chinatowns) and Vietnamese and Arabs and even a few French-bread French. And they don't seem to have any problem with all of them being French. I see that in the Netherlands as well, but here it's more laid back, as if tolerance were not just politically correct, but Just How Things Are Done. Me, right now I'm the guy in the corner sitting at a small table and typing on his laptop. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPmllQDYRMI#t=85s
[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Man In Paris, v2.00
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: When I read your post, Ann, it brought me right into the coziness of the scene, however awkward that may sound (pt, over here, behind the other chair!) :-) Seriously, maybe because it is raining down here too, no wind, but a steady watering, I can picture the scene clearly. It sounds like an active and fulfilled life, and thank you for your lovely snapshot of it. I am on the other side of the curve these days. I retired suddenly, late last year, because I discovered I could. My wife has also retired, as planned, and the first few months have been full of sloughing off the remnants of scheduling from our long time careers. Instead of packing twenty tasks into a day, I am down to one or two. Took a little getting used to, re-establishing a much more leisurely rhythm, but I cannot really complain at all. As a child, I sailed the oceans on passenger/cargo ships, country to country, and my wife and I met after she had concluded sailing as a crew of two, in a 34 foot boat, around the world, visiting some of the same places I had been. So about three months ago, I booked a cruise for us. We sail in about 10 days, and I am really looking forward to it. Down the West Coast, Catalina Island, Cabo San Lucas, Puerto Vallarta and San Diego. From the description of the massive ship, it sounds like a combo floating Vegas and Disneyland, though there are quiet places to go as well. I am sure it will be an unforgettable experience, one way or another. PS It is *not* on the now infamous Carnival Cruise lines... Congratulations on your retirement from you job but not from life! And how adventurous and brave your wife must be to have sailed around the world with just one other person. You might just love the cruise you will be taking; you certainly will have all the amenities. Watch that wife of yours though, she might just want to commandeer the wheel house if it gets a little slow on board. I booked a three day short trip on a cruise line down to Nassau from Cape Canaveral for my husband and I a few years ago just curious to see how we would like it. It doesn't seem like my kind of thing but I wanted to give it a try. Dennis was digging in his heels convinced he would hate it but in the end he liked it more than I did! What we really want to do is a river cruise in Europe or I would love a very small archeological or historical cruise somewhere in the Greek Islands or other ancient cultural area. I am sure you will enjoy your time on the ship, you will be travelling down a beautiful part of the coast. Leave your computer at home though! Nice for you both, wish you a pleasant trip ! As you know Maharishi blessed Catalina Island I believe in 1965, pictures here: http://www.maharishiphotos.com/mmyhlcl.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Free Man In Paris, v2.00 to dearest wTf
Wilbur Farnsworpy Tigglewud, no monogrammed hankies for him,meets love of his life at kleenex display (-: From: card cardemais...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 7:46 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Free Man In Paris, v2.00 That's, of course, William T. Faulkner! ;D --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Carde, who is WTF? And please don't ask me to google (-: From: card cardemaister@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 2:14 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Free Man In Paris, v2.00  Muhammad Ali, Barack Obama, Baruch Spinoza, WTF?! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_reply@ wrote: This quote by whom?I figured that if I said it often enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest - uuuhh -not who you may think : that's Muhammad Ali [https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-U9cQIXWo_g0/UEH0y3F3ZoI/zQA/\ 2od3drdo4K8/s253/12+-+1] --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: On 03/19/2013 02:25 PM, turquoiseb wrote: My playtime crew is just as diverse, but on the whole just as happy. I've seen none of the classic Parisian depression on this trip so far, only joie de vivre. In this cafe there are tables of French people discussing art or sports or literature or TV personalities or philosophy, the common denominator amongst all of them is that they seem to all be having a good time. Being French, they don't overdrink, meaning that I cannot detect a drunk person in the joint. They just sip at their wines and their beers and enjoy them, not chug them for the purpose (like the Brits) of getting drunk and losing their inhibitions. My take on that is that the French simply have fewer inhibitions to lose, so they can enjoy their beverages for the taste, and not treat them as a drug, or a means to an end. The crowd is also ethnically diverse. There are North Africans here, and Chinese (Butte aux Cailles being next door to one of Paris' Chinatowns) and Vietnamese and Arabs and even a few French-bread French. And they don't seem to have any problem with all of them being French. I see that in the Netherlands as well, but here it's more laid back, as if tolerance were not just politically correct, but Just How Things Are Done. Me, right now I'm the guy in the corner sitting at a small table and typing on his laptop. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPmllQDYRMI#t=85s
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Fuck 'em. How are *they* spending their ordinary here-and-now days and nights? What can *they* find to write about them? Ann: God Barry. Your gloating is misplaced Barry reminds me of my uncle who had been every place you could think of, and had owned every car you saw on the road; if you paid a dollar for something, he had got his for fifty cents. Go figure. One day I was riding in my uncle's and car I saw a barber shop in a strip mall - my uncle said Oh yeah I've been going there for twenty years. Next day, I drove over to the barber shop we'd seen and told the barber that my uncle sent me - the barber said Joe who? LoL! No matter where you are or have been, Barry has either been there or has been to a neater place and done more neat things than you have. Barry's life is so unique and his experiences are so magical that he's *enlightened* every day - he's really on to something this time, and you're not doing anything but reading his messages. LoL! Barry saw a movie last night; Barry walked his dogs on the street; Barry went to a cafe and typed; Barry knows so-and-so. Barry is sixty and got a job! LoL!
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turquoiseb: What can *they* find to write about them? So, you gave it all away. LoL! George Strait - Give It Away: http://youtu.be/qYNcR44qKds Can't speak for them, but I'm probably going to the Fiesta in San Antonio, after I recover from attending the South x Southwest Music and Film Festival in Austin. LoL! http://www.fiesta-sa.org/ http://sxsw.com/ Too bad you're going to miss George Strait's last concert at the Alamodome. Go figure. The Cowboy Rides Away Tour: http://www.georgestrait.com/
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Thanks, and pictures are wonderful! I pretty much enjoy old photos and film, of anything - very magical. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: When I read your post, Ann, it brought me right into the coziness of the scene, however awkward that may sound (pt, over here, behind the other chair!) :-) Seriously, maybe because it is raining down here too, no wind, but a steady watering, I can picture the scene clearly. It sounds like an active and fulfilled life, and thank you for your lovely snapshot of it. I am on the other side of the curve these days. I retired suddenly, late last year, because I discovered I could. My wife has also retired, as planned, and the first few months have been full of sloughing off the remnants of scheduling from our long time careers. Instead of packing twenty tasks into a day, I am down to one or two. Took a little getting used to, re-establishing a much more leisurely rhythm, but I cannot really complain at all. As a child, I sailed the oceans on passenger/cargo ships, country to country, and my wife and I met after she had concluded sailing as a crew of two, in a 34 foot boat, around the world, visiting some of the same places I had been. So about three months ago, I booked a cruise for us. We sail in about 10 days, and I am really looking forward to it. Down the West Coast, Catalina Island, Cabo San Lucas, Puerto Vallarta and San Diego. From the description of the massive ship, it sounds like a combo floating Vegas and Disneyland, though there are quiet places to go as well. I am sure it will be an unforgettable experience, one way or another. PS It is *not* on the now infamous Carnival Cruise lines... Nice for you both, wish you a pleasant trip ! As you know Maharishi blessed Catalina Island I believe in 1965, pictures here: http://www.maharishiphotos.com/mmyhlcl.html
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams richard@... wrote: snip No matter where you are or have been, Barry has either been there or has been to a neater place and done more neat things than you have. Barry's life is so unique and his experiences are so magical that he's *enlightened* every day - he's really on to something this time, and you're not doing anything but reading his messages. LoL! Barry saw a movie last night; Barry walked his dogs on the street; Barry went to a cafe and typed; Barry knows so-and-so. Barry is sixty and got a job! LoL! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGJpP7wVkVs http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7336471/messege-to-uncle
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I'll take a story like this any time, Ann. Very nice. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann awoelflebater@... wrote: Funny you should ask. For a start, I am sitting here in my beautiful house that my husband and I built, it is blowing and raining outside, I hear the wind in the chimney, the slash of water against the windows and I sense the presence of the man I love most in the world sitting behind me. On the couch next to him is my beloved dog Jesse who survived life-threatening paralysis thanks to a successful $13,000 back surgery. That is how precious she is to me. She follows me everywhere, looks for any opportunity to do something for me, brings me my horse brushes, carries my gloves, picks up a pen I have dropped. She radiates devotion and real dog love in my direction every waking moment. She sleeps under my side of the bed to stay as close to me as possible. I have just finished a dinner that my husband cooked for me consisting of fresh asparagus, new potatoes and organic farm raised lamb we buy from a good friend of ours down the road, who was a member of the Canadian Equestrian team and who now, at the age of 70, has retired her fabulous imported German dressage horse in order to raise sheep because she loves living on the land and having animals to feed and to nurture although she eventually has them slaughtered for their meat. I have put to bed six wonderful horses who rely on me to feed and house and keep them safe and secure. They are in their stalls now munching on green hay with clean pine shavings to lie on and I have secured the barn doors against the wind we are forecast to have tonight. I feel good about the fact that I can provide an environment of safety and routine for them. And I look forward to smelling their clean scent of horsiness in the morning as I walk into the barn at 7am precisely to start a new round of feeding, cleaning and exercising them. I run a business that I love. I take a few moments at the end of each day to assess how I did on this day and think ahead to tomorrow to determine how I can do it better. I love the women I employ and I enjoy the challenges dealing with the public and figuring out how to serve their needs the best I can. So, while I am not in Paris in some chic cafe watching the clientele savour their wine and I do not have the privilege of walking the scenic Parisian streets to return to my French apartment I am sitting here looking forward to tomorrow, hearing the wind and the rain, feeling my dog and my husband, still tasting the lamb, knowing the horses are settled and happy and that I live in one of the most beautiful islands on the planet. Would I like to be in Paris? Sure. Is there still life worth living elsewhere? I already answered that.
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann awoelflebater@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: When I read your post, Ann, it brought me right into the coziness of the scene, however awkward that may sound (pt, over here, behind the other chair!) :-) Seriously, maybe because it is raining down here too, no wind, but a steady watering, I can picture the scene clearly. It sounds like an active and fulfilled life, and thank you for your lovely snapshot of it. I am on the other side of the curve these days. I retired suddenly, late last year, because I discovered I could. My wife has also retired, as planned, and the first few months have been full of sloughing off the remnants of scheduling from our long time careers. Instead of packing twenty tasks into a day, I am down to one or two. Took a little getting used to, re-establishing a much more leisurely rhythm, but I cannot really complain at all. As a child, I sailed the oceans on passenger/cargo ships, country to country, and my wife and I met after she had concluded sailing as a crew of two, in a 34 foot boat, around the world, visiting some of the same places I had been. So about three months ago, I booked a cruise for us. We sail in about 10 days, and I am really looking forward to it. Down the West Coast, Catalina Island, Cabo San Lucas, Puerto Vallarta and San Diego. From the description of the massive ship, it sounds like a combo floating Vegas and Disneyland, though there are quiet places to go as well. I am sure it will be an unforgettable experience, one way or another. PS It is *not* on the now infamous Carnival Cruise lines... Congratulations on your retirement from you job but not from life! And how adventurous and brave your wife must be to have sailed around the world with just one other person. **Yes, it was the fulfillment of a vision she had been having since she was a child. Came with all the bells and whistles, including being boarded by pirates, shark scares, and visiting the coast and wildlife parks of Namibia by herself. She wrote so much of it down and I have been after her to publish it. You might just love the cruise you will be taking; you certainly will have all the amenities. Watch that wife of yours though, she might just want to commandeer the wheel house if it gets a little slow on board. **There will be so much to take in. I am taking lots of memory cards and batteries for my camera. Yes, my wife loves to explore and enjoy almost everything - we are well suited that way. I booked a three day short trip on a cruise line down to Nassau from Cape Canaveral for my husband and I a few years ago just curious to see how we would like it. It doesn't seem like my kind of thing but I wanted to give it a try. Dennis was digging in his heels convinced he would hate it but in the end he liked it more than I did! What we really want to do is a river cruise in Europe or I would love a very small archeological or historical cruise somewhere in the Greek Islands or other ancient cultural area. **Yeah, my take too - I tried to find something that wouldn't be completely over the top, and not sure we will repeat the big ship experience, just because there is so much other stuff to do. I am sure you will enjoy your time on the ship, you will be travelling down a beautiful part of the coast. Leave your computer at home though! **Whether at the beach or otherwise, I have always enjoyed looking at the sea's horizon. Internet minutes and cell phone use are prohibitive on board. So, I am taking my PC to download pics into, and perhaps keep a diary, but won't be online at all. Nice for you both, wish you a pleasant trip ! As you know Maharishi blessed Catalina Island I believe in 1965, pictures here: http://www.maharishiphotos.com/mmyhlcl.html
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hey Richard, wishing you a smooth and speedy recovery from music festival (-: Also want to thank you for recently expressing some support for something I said. post 338386 if you're into archiving, etc. From: Richard J. Williams rich...@rwilliams.us To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 9:56 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Free Man In Paris, v2.00 turquoiseb: What can *they* find to write about them? So, you gave it all away. LoL! George Strait - Give It Away: http://youtu.be/qYNcR44qKds Can't speak for them, but I'm probably going to the Fiesta in San Antonio, after I recover from attending the South x Southwest Music and Film Festival in Austin. LoL! http://www.fiesta-sa.org/ http://sxsw.com/ Too bad you're going to miss George Strait's last concert at the Alamodome. Go figure. The Cowboy Rides Away Tour: http://www.georgestrait.com/
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Share Long: ...wishing you a smooth and speedy recovery from music festival (-: 'Old lions John Fogerty, Bobby Bare and the Zombies help close SXSW' San Antonio Express-News: http://tinyurl.com/c4o6tvt John Fogerty, Live 2004 in Austin City Limits: 'The Old Man down the Road' http://youtu.be/4Lf0pQoRgFQ John Fogerty, Les Paul guitar, vocals Bob Britt - electric acoustic guitars, mandolin, lap steel and dobro Billy Burnette - guitars and vocals George Hawkins Jr - bass and vocals John Molo - drums http://austincitylimits.com/ turquoiseb: What can *they* find to write about them? So, you gave it all away. LoL! George Strait - Give It Away: http://youtu.be/qYNcR44qKds Can't speak for them, but I'm probably going to the Fiesta in San Antonio, after I recover from attending the South x Southwest Music and Film Festival in Austin. LoL! http://www.fiesta-sa.org/ http://sxsw.com/ Too bad you're going to miss George Strait's last concert at the Alamodome. Go figure. The Cowboy Rides Away Tour: http://www.georgestrait.com/
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No matter where you are or have been, Barry has either been there or has been to a neater place and done more neat things than you have. Barry's life is so unique and his experiences are so magical that he's *enlightened* every day - he's really on to something this time, and you're not doing anything but reading his messages. LoL! Barry saw a movie last night; Barry walked his dogs on the street; Barry went to a cafe and typed; Barry knows so-and-so. Barry is sixty and got a job! LoL! navashok: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGJpP7wVkVs http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7336471/messege-to-uncle Just give it away. There ain't nothin' in this house worth fightin' over. Oh, an' we're both tired of fightin' anyway, So just give it away. George Strait, Give It Away, Lyrics: http://youtu.be/wawYxDJPt0w
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This quote by whom?I figured that if I said it often enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest - uuuhh -not who you may think : that's Muhammad Ali [https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-U9cQIXWo_g0/UEH0y3F3ZoI/zQA/\ 2od3drdo4K8/s253/12+-+1] --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: On 03/19/2013 02:25 PM, turquoiseb wrote: My playtime crew is just as diverse, but on the whole just as happy. I've seen none of the classic Parisian depression on this trip so far, only joie de vivre. In this cafe there are tables of French people discussing art or sports or literature or TV personalities or philosophy, the common denominator amongst all of them is that they seem to all be having a good time. Being French, they don't overdrink, meaning that I cannot detect a drunk person in the joint. They just sip at their wines and their beers and enjoy them, not chug them for the purpose (like the Brits) of getting drunk and losing their inhibitions. My take on that is that the French simply have fewer inhibitions to lose, so they can enjoy their beverages for the taste, and not treat them as a drug, or a means to an end. The crowd is also ethnically diverse. There are North Africans here, and Chinese (Butte aux Cailles being next door to one of Paris' Chinatowns) and Vietnamese and Arabs and even a few French-bread French. And they don't seem to have any problem with all of them being French. I see that in the Netherlands as well, but here it's more laid back, as if tolerance were not just politically correct, but Just How Things Are Done. Me, right now I'm the guy in the corner sitting at a small table and typing on his laptop. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPmllQDYRMI#t=85s
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yeah: Repetition Is The Mother Of Retention but OTHO if this motherly- retained-repetition is so beautiful illustrated and described as these American-in Paris-posting i do not mind - do you? [http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5469/6923691534_817081a038_q.jpg] [http://pcdn.500px.net/6720624/ec2a48d412666a3e3878c81e50222a753a83f057/\ 3.jpg] And if sometimes, on the steps of a palace or the green grass of a ditch, in the mournful solitude of your room, you wake again, drunkenness already diminishing or gone, ask the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock, everything that is flying, everything that is groaning, everything that is rolling, everything that is singing, everything that is speaking. . .ask what time it is and wind, wave, star, bird, clock will answer you: It is time to be drunk! - See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16054#sthash.ThV46WsO.dpufAnd if sometimes, on the steps of a palace or the green grass of a ditch, in the mournful solitude of your room, you wake again, drunkenness already diminishing or gone, ask the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock, everything that is flying, everything that is groaning, everything that is rolling, everything that is singing, everything that is speaking. . .ask what time it is and wind, wave, star, bird, clock will answer you: It is time to be drunk! --drunk of life Get drunk on what life has to offer And if sometimes, on the steps of a palace or the green grass of a ditch, in the mournful solitude of your room, you wake again, drunkenness already diminishing or gone, ask the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock, everything that is flying, everything that is groaning, everything that is rolling, everything that is singing, everything that is speaking. . .ask what time it is and wind, wave, star, bird, clock will answer you: It is time to be drunk! - See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16054#sthash.ThV46WsO.dpuf--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_reply@... wrote: This quote by whom?I figured that if I said it often enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest - uuuhh -not who you may think : that's Muhammad Ali [https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-U9cQIXWo_g0/UEH0y3F3ZoI/zQA/\ \ 2od3drdo4K8/s253/12+-+1] --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: On 03/19/2013 02:25 PM, turquoiseb wrote: My playtime crew is just as diverse, but on the whole just as happy. I've seen none of the classic Parisian depression on this trip so far, only joie de vivre. In this cafe there are tables of French people discussing art or sports or literature or TV personalities or philosophy, the common denominator amongst all of them is that they seem to all be having a good time. Being French, they don't overdrink, meaning that I cannot detect a drunk person in the joint. They just sip at their wines and their beers and enjoy them, not chug them for the purpose (like the Brits) of getting drunk and losing their inhibitions. My take on that is that the French simply have fewer inhibitions to lose, so they can enjoy their beverages for the taste, and not treat them as a drug, or a means to an end. The crowd is also ethnically diverse. There are North Africans here, and Chinese (Butte aux Cailles being next door to one of Paris' Chinatowns) and Vietnamese and Arabs and even a few French-bread French. And they don't seem to have any problem with all of them being French. I see that in the Netherlands as well, but here it's more laid back, as if tolerance were not just politically correct, but Just How Things Are Done. Me, right now I'm the guy in the corner sitting at a small table and typing on his laptop. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPmllQDYRMI#t=85s
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yeah: Repetition Is The Mother Of Retention but OTHO if this motherly- retained-repetition is so beautiful illustrated and described as these American-in Paris-posting i do not mind - do you? [http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5469/6923691534_817081a038_q.jpg] [http://pcdn.500px.net/6720624/ec2a48d412666a3e3878c81e50222a753a83f057/\ 3.jpg] And if sometimes, on the steps of a palace or the green grass of a ditch, in the mournful solitude of your room, you wake again, drunkenness already diminishing or gone, ask the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock, everything that is flying, everything that is groaning, everything that is rolling, everything that is singing, everything that is speaking. . .ask what time it is and wind, wave, star, bird, clock will answer you: It is time to be drunk! -( by Charles Baudelaire-translated by Louis Simpson - See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16054#sthash.ThV46WsO.dpuf by Charles Baudelaire http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/607 translated by Louis Simpson http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/86 - See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16054#sthash.ThV46WsO.dpuf)See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16054#sthash.ThV46WsO.dpuf) It is time to be drunk! --drunk of life Get drunk on what life has to offer --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_reply@... wrote: This quote by whom?I figured that if I said it often enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest - uuuhh -not who you may think : that's Muhammad Ali [https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-U9cQIXWo_g0/UEH0y3F3ZoI/zQA/\ \ 2od3drdo4K8/s253/12+-+1] --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: On 03/19/2013 02:25 PM, turquoiseb wrote: My playtime crew is just as diverse, but on the whole just as happy. I've seen none of the classic Parisian depression on this trip so far, only joie de vivre. In this cafe there are tables of French people discussing art or sports or literature or TV personalities or philosophy, the common denominator amongst all of them is that they seem to all be having a good time. Being French, they don't overdrink, meaning that I cannot detect a drunk person in the joint. They just sip at their wines and their beers and enjoy them, not chug them for the purpose (like the Brits) of getting drunk and losing their inhibitions. My take on that is that the French simply have fewer inhibitions to lose, so they can enjoy their beverages for the taste, and not treat them as a drug, or a means to an end. The crowd is also ethnically diverse. There are North Africans here, and Chinese (Butte aux Cailles being next door to one of Paris' Chinatowns) and Vietnamese and Arabs and even a few French-bread French. And they don't seem to have any problem with all of them being French. I see that in the Netherlands as well, but here it's more laid back, as if tolerance were not just politically correct, but Just How Things Are Done. Me, right now I'm the guy in the corner sitting at a small table and typing on his laptop. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPmllQDYRMI#t=85s
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: [https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/188956_452369191\ 497990_730757480_n.jpg] Marek's recent post (forwarded by Curtis) was such a classic example of finding the extraordinary in the ordinary that it (and discovering that this cafe I'm sitting in has free WiFi) has tempted me to write something about *my* ordinary life. I'm currently in a very nice cafe in the Butte aux Cailles near where I work, a fun village within a city that is being referred to in tourist publications as the new Montmartre. It's a fun area, full of ordinary Parisians living their lives as if they were extraordinary. And why the fuck not? Believer or non-believer, so-called spiritual or non-spiritual, NONE of us knows fersure whether there is any life after this one, so why not enjoy this one as if it were the only one possible *to* enjoy? To do otherwise seems folly to me. It seems that way to a lot of Parisians as well. They might actually be Christians or of some other persuasion that believes that there is an afterlife, but that's...uh...after life. And the afterlife's very existence is a matter of belief, not fact. This life -- here and now -- is fact. One can either use it or lose it. I consider myself fortunate these last few days since I arrived in Paris to be sharing them with folks who prefer to use them rather than lose them. At work, I'm surrounded by an American guy and a Brit guy in their fifties, and a couple of French interns who are in their early twenties. It makes for an interesting dynamic. The women are model-thin and lovely, but rather than fritter away *all* of their todays on frivolities, they enrolled in a university course to teach them about Information Architecture, and now they're working for one of the leading computer companies in the world, and digging it. Both are incredibly bright and motivated, and best of all, they laugh a lot. So do the two older guys, so I'm fortunate in my work crew. My playtime crew is just as diverse, but on the whole just as happy. I've seen none of the classic Parisian depression on this trip so far, only joie de vivre. In this cafe there are tables of French people discussing art or sports or literature or TV personalities or philosophy, the common denominator amongst all of them is that they seem to all be having a good time. Being French, they don't overdrink, meaning that I cannot detect a drunk person in the joint. They just sip at their wines and their beers and enjoy them, not chug them for the purpose (like the Brits) of getting drunk and losing their inhibitions. My take on that is that the French simply have fewer inhibitions to lose, so they can enjoy their beverages for the taste, and not treat them as a drug, or a means to an end. The crowd is also ethnically diverse. There are North Africans here, and Chinese (Butte aux Cailles being next door to one of Paris' Chinatowns) and Vietnamese and Arabs and even a few French-bread French. And they don't seem to have any problem with all of them being French. I see that in the Netherlands as well, but here it's more laid back, as if tolerance were not just politically correct, but Just How Things Are Done. Me, right now I'm the guy in the corner sitting at a small table and typing on his laptop. When I finish this post I'll close up the computer and join in some of the conversations, my French coming back to me far more rapidly than I imagined. Interestingly, I find myself *thinking* in French most of the time, and having to internally translate back to English. Go figure. That hasn't happened for me yet in Dutch. As for other differences between Paris and the Netherlands, I would have to say that the primary one that strikes me is a difference in the comfort that French people seem to have with their sexuality. In the Netherlands, people may be liberal, but they kinda pull it in. People rarely catch your eye and hold it flirtingly there; instead they tend to open up only after some period of getting to know you. Here, things are more open and immediate. Spring is not really here yet, but it's coming, and people can feel it, and seem to be already responding to the increased pheromone count in the air. As an example, this was the first poster I saw on my first walk around town. [http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8093/8572121285_a0c9152054.jpg] Anyway, I'm enjoying myself. Sorry to say that to those on this forum who were hoping that I wouldn't. And you *all* know that there are a few here who fall into that category. Fuck 'em. How are *they* spending their ordinary here-and-now days and nights? What can *they* find to write about them? God Barry. Your gloating is misplaced. It is not an attractive characteristic coming from you or from anyone else. Your comments will become self fulfilling if you don't knock it off. NOBODY obsesses whether
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann awoelflebater@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: (snip) Anyway, I'm enjoying myself. Sorry to say that to those on this forum who were hoping that I wouldn't. And you *all* know that there are a few here who fall into that category. Fuck 'em. How are *they* spending their ordinary here-and- now days and nights? What can *they* find to write about them? God Barry. Your gloating is misplaced. It is not an attractive characteristic coming from you or from anyone else. Your comments will become self fulfilling if you don't knock it off. NOBODY obsesses whether you are happy or unhappy, if you make a million dollars or get fired. Can't you just enjoy your new city and stop worrying about what others think? I would, in your situation, immerse myself in Paris and forget about those that don't like you. You certainly carry FFL around with you wherever you go. Doesn't it get heavy after a while? But then, it is your second home. What's so sad is that he couldn't be happy with what was a really quite lovely post about his experiences in Paris unless he concluded it with one of his paranoid attacks on those he perceives to be his enemies. It leads one to suspect that while he was writing all that very nice stuff, the thought in the forefront of his mind was not how much he was enjoying himself, but This'll show 'em!
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: [https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/188956_452369191\ 497990_730757480_n.jpg] Marek's recent post (forwarded by Curtis) was such a classic example of finding the extraordinary in the ordinary that it (and discovering that this cafe I'm sitting in has free WiFi) has tempted me to write something about *my* ordinary life. I'm currently in a very nice cafe in the Butte aux Cailles near where I work, a fun village within a city that is being referred to in tourist publications as the new Montmartre. It's a fun area, full of ordinary Parisians living their lives as if they were extraordinary. And why the fuck not? Believer or non-believer, so-called spiritual or non-spiritual, NONE of us knows fersure whether there is any life after this one, so why not enjoy this one as if it were the only one possible *to* enjoy? To do otherwise seems folly to me. It seems that way to a lot of Parisians as well. They might actually be Christians or of some other persuasion that believes that there is an afterlife, but that's...uh...after life. And the afterlife's very existence is a matter of belief, not fact. This life -- here and now -- is fact. One can either use it or lose it. I consider myself fortunate these last few days since I arrived in Paris to be sharing them with folks who prefer to use them rather than lose them. At work, I'm surrounded by an American guy and a Brit guy in their fifties, and a couple of French interns who are in their early twenties. It makes for an interesting dynamic. The women are model-thin and lovely, but rather than fritter away *all* of their todays on frivolities, they enrolled in a university course to teach them about Information Architecture, and now they're working for one of the leading computer companies in the world, and digging it. Both are incredibly bright and motivated, and best of all, they laugh a lot. So do the two older guys, so I'm fortunate in my work crew. My playtime crew is just as diverse, but on the whole just as happy. I've seen none of the classic Parisian depression on this trip so far, only joie de vivre. In this cafe there are tables of French people discussing art or sports or literature or TV personalities or philosophy, the common denominator amongst all of them is that they seem to all be having a good time. Being French, they don't overdrink, meaning that I cannot detect a drunk person in the joint. They just sip at their wines and their beers and enjoy them, not chug them for the purpose (like the Brits) of getting drunk and losing their inhibitions. My take on that is that the French simply have fewer inhibitions to lose, so they can enjoy their beverages for the taste, and not treat them as a drug, or a means to an end. The crowd is also ethnically diverse. There are North Africans here, and Chinese (Butte aux Cailles being next door to one of Paris' Chinatowns) and Vietnamese and Arabs and even a few French-bread French. And they don't seem to have any problem with all of them being French. I see that in the Netherlands as well, but here it's more laid back, as if tolerance were not just politically correct, but Just How Things Are Done. Me, right now I'm the guy in the corner sitting at a small table and typing on his laptop. When I finish this post I'll close up the computer and join in some of the conversations, my French coming back to me far more rapidly than I imagined. Interestingly, I find myself *thinking* in French most of the time, and having to internally translate back to English. Go figure. That hasn't happened for me yet in Dutch. As for other differences between Paris and the Netherlands, I would have to say that the primary one that strikes me is a difference in the comfort that French people seem to have with their sexuality. In the Netherlands, people may be liberal, but they kinda pull it in. People rarely catch your eye and hold it flirtingly there; instead they tend to open up only after some period of getting to know you. Here, things are more open and immediate. Spring is not really here yet, but it's coming, and people can feel it, and seem to be already responding to the increased pheromone count in the air. As an example, this was the first poster I saw on my first walk around town. [http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8093/8572121285_a0c9152054.jpg] Anyway, I'm enjoying myself. Sorry to say that to those on this forum who were hoping that I wouldn't. And you *all* know that there are a few here who fall into that category. Fuck 'em. How are *they* spending their ordinary here-and-now days and nights? What can *they* find to write about them? Funny you should ask. For a start, I am sitting here in my beautiful house that my husband and I built, it is blowing and raining outside, I hear the wind in the chimney, the slash of water against the windows
