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Tom Dunlap said:
There is a dark assessment of 12 Step recovery programs that goes something like trading destructive addictions in for becoming addicted to meetings and working a program. Look at whet outcome is desired.
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Tom, can you clarify your point? My initial response is that meetings can't kill you. My opinion on this subject is people trade 1 addiction for another because they believe the drug, alcohol or whatever is the source of the problem. These are a symptom of the real problem which is the person. Trading 1 addiction for another doesnt address the problem. Without taking a look at why we have these addictions and addressing them we will stay involved or switch what ever vise we are indulging
in at that time. This is just my experience and opinion.
 
Everyone has an addiction....EVERYONE. Be it drugs, alcohol, smoking, work, fitness, sex, TV, food, shopping, etc. The key is to supplant the less desirable addictions (e.g. drugs, alcohol, smoking) with either neutral or more desirable ones. Any addiction can become destructive if you let it consume you. However, I think some are easier to "control" than others.
 
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You all? I'm in Alabama. That would be "y'all."

Unless it's a big group or you're pissed off, in which case it's "all y'all." For example, "I'd like to welcome all y'all to the 43rd annual Cow Pie Festival" or "All y'all just stood around and didn't do a motherf#@$%ing thing."

I trimmed shrubs the last couple of days. It's good money, but not as much fun as trees.

I hope you have a good evening. I guess mine will be another quiet evening at home with the wife. And cats. And parrot.
 
Dan Cobb said:
You all? I'm in Alabama. That would be "y'all."

Unless it's a big group or you're pissed off, in which case it's "all y'all." For example, "I'd like to welcome all y'all to the 43rd annual Cow Pie Festival" or "All y'all just stood around and didn't do a motherf#@$%ing thing."

I trimmed shrubs the last couple of days. It's good money, but not as much fun as trees.

I hope you have a good evening. I guess mine will be another quiet evening at home with the wife. And cats. And parrot.
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Now thats good info, far more stimulating than all these political discussions
 
Dan Cobb said:
You all? I'm in Alabama. That would be "y'all."

Unless it's a big group or you're pissed off, in which case it's "all y'all." For example, "I'd like to welcome all y'all to the 43rd annual Cow Pie Festival" or "All y'all just stood around and didn't do a motherf#@$%ing thing."

I trimmed shrubs the last couple of days. It's good money, but not as much fun as trees.

I hope you have a good evening. I guess mine will be another quiet evening at home with the wife. And cats. And parrot.
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Most of my relatives are from North Carolina and Tennessee, so I understand exactly what you are saying.

Living with cats and a parrot would have to be interesting, does the parrot meow? A friend of mine has a dog and a parrot, his parrot whistles for the dog and then barks.
 
Dan Cobb said:
You all? I'm in Alabama. That would be "y'all."

Unless it's a big group or you're pissed off, in which case it's "all y'all." For example, "I'd like to welcome all y'all to the 43rd annual Cow Pie Festival" or "All y'all just stood around and didn't do a motherf#@$%ing thing."

I trimmed shrubs the last couple of days. It's good money, but not as much fun as trees.

I hope you have a good evening. I guess mine will be another quiet evening at home with the wife. And cats. And parrot.
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I've been saying all y'all most of my life in a beautiful Canadian accent. Picture that.
 
Reach said:
Most of my relatives are from North Carolina and Tennessee, so I understand exactly what you are saying.

Living with cats and a parrot would have to be interesting, does the parrot meow? A friend of mine has a dog and a parrot, his parrot whistles for the dog and then barks.
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The parrot does meow. A lot. He does each of the 2 cats different meows. His owner for his first 5 years had a dog. After 12 years with us, he no longer barks much. All the cats we've had have been scared of the bird, up until the new cat we got this year, who is interested in the bird. We have to keep the bird away from cats. He'll try to bite them.

I haven't had any luck with getting the parrot to mimic a chainsaw.
 
Dan Cobb said:
The parrot does meow. A lot. He does each of the 2 cats different meows. His owner for his first 5 years had a dog. After 12 years with us, he no longer barks much. All the cats we've had have been scared of the bird, up until the new cat we got this year, who is interested in the bird. We have to keep the bird away from cats. He'll try to bite them.

I haven't had any luck with getting the parrot to mimic a chainsaw.
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Wow. It’s amazing how well parrots can mimic. Hearing one bark is quite funny, I can imagine a meowing bird. That’s even funnier.

Kramer the African Grey is a bully, the dog is afraid of him and rightly so. He likes to sneak up on the dog and bit him on the rear just to watch the dog jump and run away.

If you ever get the bird to sound like a chainsaw, you have to record it. I have to hear that one.
 
at the end of 2016, my finger was sliced by a still-moving chain, and was stitched and bandaged for weeks;
I was fresh back from Standing Rock acclimating to home world.
( sliced in my first 10 mins back to work, in a quick 'help for a friend/coworker's neighbor before work' thing. one-handing cutting brush of a snapped off limb)

Going to work winter carpentry, finger would open up. had to refrain; setting around, thinking. glooming about things. entered horrible depression, my son, 2 y/o broke his leg, I was getting more miserable.

Mainly I stared directly into the window of the woodstove,
slouched a lot.
I learned to play pokemon cards with my boys.

then one day, piercing through the ether, comes this video:

you may have seen it.
mysteriously, this snapped a thick layer of the whole thing.

his devotion to the work ahead of him, the persistence of every action. Total awareness and attention to detail. flourish without being showy.
I watched it over and over. He re-lit the candle that is my devotion to craft, creativity, passion, excellence, challenge, striving.. and I was laughing the whole way at the unexpected hero for my moment.

the entryways to despair are many, the exits are elusive yet hopefully Easy to Recognize, with "Eyes to see"
We can convince ourselves of lies.
the salt bae just broke the first layer of gloom, it took two years to continue working it out, working it through.

What I found was uncovering Real things emotionally, that were unprocessed, unresolved, not at peace. I needed to mourn, and it became remembering who I am. Now I see how I am stronger from getting to know what is there aiming to kill me, erode my essential core ;; if i believe the stories of destruction and pain are the 'more powerful reality' hardcore truth.. but I don't believe that.

SubGenius say "Pull the Wool Over Your Own Eyes".
It's a hard fact that Life reflects what we make of it.
If I am delusional for believing in God, Gardens and Glory then so be it, I leave my thoughts there within the bounds of creation. the Groundie of Eden.

natural building hero Sun Ray Kelly said "they ask us to build a carport, we build a temple". He walked barefoot for days to find the log that would become the center pillar and spiral staircase built around it. That's that attention to craft and detail. .. and who tf cares if no one else sees it!! that's a hard fact too, many of us are hardly recognized.

Hope some element of this rings for you. As another one riding the bus. maybe we can line up a couple days to juice things up, I am right down in Rhody. you are a gem of a man on earth . shore up on strength and foundations, affirm your direction and follow the course.

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What are you doing with yours?


I met with my friend for a minor welding repair, some trailer upgrades of support legs for loading the miniloader and logs , and a custom build after seeing another feller's contraption.

Weekend work around the house, increasing mulch beds around 15 year old trees and some newly planted pears, and
probably split some firewood, and write a bid to round out the afternoon.
 
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