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May 23, 2014 23:33:56   #
rumitoid
 
This is not The Sound Of Music but close.

I love the smell of freshly cut grass, newly turned earth, and the first spring rain. I love the sound of thunder and find it right up there with the meadow lark and baby's laughter but nothing close to my child calling my name. I like to see adversity not as a problem, difficulty, or foe but as an opportunity to refine my mettle, a necessary crucible for improvement and change. I like to see an error not as something to be ashamed of or try to purposely avoid but as a humble wisdom to explore, living life as an adventure and not a test. It seems to me, and of course I can be wrong, that our senses were a playground given by God for those that become as little children to enjoy. Free...but under a loving, watchful eye.

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May 23, 2014 23:53:48   #
rumitoid
 
rumitoid wrote:
This is not The Sound Of Music but close.

I love the smell of freshly cut grass, newly turned earth, and the first spring rain. I love the sound of thunder and find it right up there with the meadow lark and baby's laughter but nothing close to my child calling my name. I like to see adversity not as a problem, difficulty, or foe but as an opportunity to refine my mettle, a necessary crucible for improvement and change. I like to see an error not as something to be ashamed of or try to purposely avoid but as a humble wisdom to explore, living life as an adventure and not a test. It seems to me, and of course I can be wrong, that our senses were a playground given by God for those that become as little children to enjoy. Free...but under a loving, watchful eye.
This is not The Sound Of Music but close. br br I... (show quote)


Do I sound too much like a Hallmark card?

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May 24, 2014 00:31:05   #
dennisimoto Loc: Washington State (West)
 
rumitoid wrote:
Do I sound too much like a Hallmark card?


I don't know but I know that the first Red Wing Blackbird call every year instantly t***sports me back to the 4th grade in Littleton, MA and I know that Spring is really here.

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May 24, 2014 01:02:49   #
rumitoid
 
dennisimoto wrote:
I don't know but I know that the first Red Wing Blackbird call every year instantly t***sports me back to the 4th grade in Littleton, MA and I know that Spring is really here.


Exactly what I tried to convey. Perfect. Thank you.

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May 24, 2014 01:30:34   #
Armageddun Loc: The show me state
 
dennisimoto wrote:
I don't know but I know that the first Red Wing Blackbird call every year instantly t***sports me back to the 4th grade in Littleton, MA and I know that Spring is really here.


You reminded me of a fishing trip that myself and two friends took years ago. We were fishing Reelfoot Lake in Tenn. The lake is surrounded by either saw grass, cattails, and cypress trees.

We were slowly fishing this grass line and a Red Winged Black bird landed just for short while right next to our boat.

The middle guy said look at that pretty red winged black bird!! He asked what kind of bird is that? I told him it was a Red Winged Black Bird. He laughed at me for the rest of the trip thinking I was trying to pull his leg.

It was not until we got back home in Missouri and I found a picture of the bird to prove to him that I was not joking. That was 25-30 yrs. ago and we still get a laugh out of that story. Thanks for helping the memory to come back.

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May 24, 2014 01:42:39   #
Alicia Loc: NYC
 
rumitoid wrote:
Do I sound too much like a Hallmark card?

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No. I do appreciate your thoughts. I think, at the base, we all appreciate the same things. With any rain, I am compelled to go outside. I enjoy the changes in the type of rain within one storm. Sadly, too many are averse to expressing it. Basically, I believe we are all pagans. Definition: One who is close to the earth - from the Latin word pagani. Same thing goes for heathens. That is, until the Christians decided to give them negative connotations.

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May 24, 2014 02:47:49   #
grace scott
 
Alicia wrote:
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No. I do appreciate your thoughts. I think, at the base, we all appreciate the same things. With any rain, I am compelled to go outside. I enjoy the changes in the type of rain within one storm. Sadly, too many are averse to expressing it. Basically, I believe we are all pagans. Definition: One who is close to the earth - from the Latin word pagani. Same thing goes for heathens. That is, until the Christians decided to give them negative connotations.




When I first left home, every time it rained I took a walk and came back soaking wet. It was soothing to my soul. The laughter I received and the harsh words from the house mother did not make me happy. But the next time it rained, I was out again.

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May 24, 2014 03:02:12   #
rhomin57 Loc: Far Northern CA.
 
LOL!
Alicia wrote:
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No. I do appreciate your thoughts. I think, at the base, we all appreciate the same things. With any rain, I am compelled to go outside. I enjoy the changes in the type of rain within one storm. Sadly, too many are averse to expressing it. Basically, I believe we are all pagans. Definition: One who is close to the earth - from the Latin word pagani. Same thing goes for heathens. That is, until the Christians decided to give them negative connotations.

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May 24, 2014 03:41:23   #
rhomin57 Loc: Far Northern CA.
 
Hhmmmmmmm, I gotta check this out. 8-)

Now, in my dictionary: Webster (based on the second college edition), pagan means this:

Pagan: (early Latin: paganus; peasant)
1. same as Heathen (sense 1) 2. one who has no religion ---of pagans ---paganism.

Heathen: (old English, haethen) 1. Anyone not a Jew, Christian, or Muzlim. 2. a person regarded as irreligious, uncivilized. 1. (sense 1) pagan. 2. irreligious, uncivilized, etc. ---heathenism.

So, there is the word "Terrestrial." In Latin, 'Terra' means Earth. It means "Worldly." Living on land, not water.
So right now, we are in our Terrestrial bodies (Earthly, Worldly), In Our '-Trial' (life) and hoping to go to Heaven in the end.

"40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another." I Corinthians 15:*40-44.*

Hell, is called Hell- and that is that (for anyone concerned)

I sure hope you'll see this as a 'positive' connotation.




Alicia wrote:
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No. I do appreciate your thoughts. I think, at the base, we all appreciate the same things. With any rain, I am compelled to go outside. I enjoy the changes in the type of rain within one storm. Sadly, too many are averse to expressing it. Basically, I believe we are all pagans. Definition: One who is close to the earth - from the Latin word pagani. Same thing goes for heathens. That is, until the Christians decided to give them negative connotations.

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May 24, 2014 08:58:06   #
Singularity
 
rumitoid wrote:
This is not The Sound Of Music but close.

I love the smell of freshly cut grass, newly turned earth, and the first spring rain. I love the sound of thunder and find it right up there with the meadow lark and baby's laughter but nothing close to my child calling my name. I like to see adversity not as a problem, difficulty, or foe but as an opportunity to refine my mettle, a necessary crucible for improvement and change. I like to see an error not as something to be ashamed of or try to purposely avoid but as a humble wisdom to explore, living life as an adventure and not a test. It seems to me, and of course I can be wrong, that our senses were a playground given by God for those that become as little children to enjoy. Free...but under a loving, watchful eye.
This is not The Sound Of Music but close. br br I... (show quote)


EVERY day is a good day. SOME days are extraordinary! This might be one. I just made it possible by taking in your words and the responses above! Thanks for the uplifting!

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May 24, 2014 14:05:40   #
Armageddun Loc: The show me state
 
Singularity wrote:
EVERY day is a good day. SOME days are extraordinary! This might be one. I just made it possible by taking in your words and the responses above! Thanks for the uplifting!


I am in awe of each breath I take. With each blink of an eye a new part of the world is either seen once again in amazement or a new finding races to my brain for identification.

I am speechless when I think I even exist out of all the potential possibilities that could have diverted me to nothingness and oblivion.
To think one breath succeeds another without having to think plus a heart that carries not only the blood but the oxygen and fuel to sustain life is beyond my understanding. Books can explain it but only the person can experience it.

Ears to hear sounds good or bad, safe or harm; instructions that are sent to the brain for analysis; that tells me to laugh, cry, sail away in raptured chillbumps, run, hide, embrase, inform, or just be still.

Hands to work and get dirty with the earth from which produces beauty and nourishment. Building blocks and wood for shelter. There is no end to which we can go if we just set and be still and dream. Life truly is amazing.

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May 24, 2014 14:37:22   #
AuntiE Loc: 45th Least Free State
 
rhomin57 wrote:
Hhmmmmmmm, I gotta check this out. 8-)

Now, in my dictionary: Webster (based on the second college edition), pagan means this:

Pagan: (early Latin: paganus; peasant)
1. same as Heathen (sense 1) 2. one who has no religion ---of pagans ---paganism.

Heathen: (old English, haethen) 1. Anyone not a Jew, Christian, or Muzlim. 2. a person regarded as irreligious, uncivilized. 1. (sense 1) pagan. 2. irreligious, uncivilized, etc. ---heathenism.

So, there is the word "Terrestrial." In Latin, 'Terra' means Earth. It means "Worldly." Living on land, not water.
So right now, we are in our Terrestrial bodies (Earthly, Worldly), In Our '-Trial' (life) and hoping to go to Heaven in the end.

"40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another." I Corinthians 15:*40-44.*

Hell, is called Hell- and that is that (for anyone concerned)

I sure hope you'll see this as a 'positive' connotation.
Hhmmmmmmm, I gotta check this out. 8-) br br Now,... (show quote)


Highly unlikely. :idea:

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May 24, 2014 23:21:31   #
rumitoid
 
Singularity wrote:
EVERY day is a good day. SOME days are extraordinary! This might be one. I just made it possible by taking in your words and the responses above! Thanks for the uplifting!


Water does it to me every time. I can never take a drink or see it, even as a puddle, that I am not stopped in awe. That sun and water is enough for plants to grow is astounding to me. Strange!

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May 24, 2014 23:34:14   #
rhomin57 Loc: Far Northern CA.
 
That's not strange, your life's element might be water. (I do not believe n horrorscopes, but I do believe in Astrology regarding the place of the sun, moon, and stars, at the time of our birth. I don't worship them)
My element is water, and the sound of water is very peaceful and tranquil to me. I used to fall sleep with the sound of the water in my aquarium. At times I have an electric ceramic waterfall on my night stand to fall asleep to.
I can stay in the water all day swimming and floating, finding that peace and tranquility. Just who and how we are.
rumitoid wrote:
Water does it to me every time. I can never take a drink or see it, even as a puddle, that I am not stopped in awe. That sun and water is enough for plants to grow is astounding to me. Strange!

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May 25, 2014 00:30:04   #
rhomin57 Loc: Far Northern CA.
 
I say that about Astrology due to the fact that when the infant is born, the gravitation pull from the position of the Sun, the Moon, and Stars, has an effect on the water placement in the infant brain, effecting what becomes their character traits as they grow. A persons personality will be effected by conditioning, but the original and initial character traits of a person are more solid.
There were "Two" reasons for the very large Star in the sky when Jesus was born: 1. to show the place of our Lords birth, 2. because Jesus was "in balance" in every aspect of his person, heart, soul, 'of mind, and perfect character' as he was born 'human'.

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