What feeds your soul?

[bobsgirl]

Reading an old letter, and remembering...

 

[Guest]

 

[EJFan]

So are you saying you win more when you don't put any thought into it?

truthfully, what i meant was that i like not thinking about how to play a hand. the absolute nuts is the only time this happens. sometimes i forget i'm playing against unskilled players and i wind up out-thinking myself... so this was a nice respite.

i know you were kidding, but you do make a valid point... sometimes it's better not to think against these morons.

 

[Guest]

 

[EJFan]

sometime we play hold 'em with the kids. my boys have a go-for-broke attitude and they're constantly doing things like going all in with a J high hand. They're usually the first 2 out but sometimes they'll get lucky and go for a while....drives the rest of us crazy.

hellmuth suggest that home games include a cash-down format... where players only keep some predetermined amount of chips in play (taking the suprlus off the table). even though it's still a NO LIMIT game, because not ALL of a players chips are in play on each hand, things stay in control to a degree... just to maintain the fun and lengthen the game.

 

[bobsgirl]

Driving down the road with the windows and sunroof open and the music blasting. Baby, it's been a long winter.

 

[Guest]

 

[Darkknight2010]

... hope.
... a hug
... a touch.
... a whipser
... a surprise
... a message
... a kiss

 

[RhymeFairy]

... hope.
... a hug
... a touch.
... a whipser
... a surprise
... a message
... a kiss

I can see his dreams
shadows cast out like dice
in for another
play. Rolling, twisting, turning
of pages into
another chapter. He wants
to be loved
like fingers caressing
spine of an aged book
temporally charred by
the reading of page
after page. Will you pick
him up. Dust off and open him
to a new world ... or throw
it into the fire, like so may others
used, abused from chafed hands
and cold hearts ...

 

[Darkknight2010]

I can see his dreams
shadows cast out like dice
in for another
play. Rolling, twisting, turning
of pages into
another chapter. He wants
to be loved
like fingers caressing
spine of an aged book
temporally charred by
the reading of page
after page. Will you pick
him up. Dust off and open him
to a new world ... or throw
it into the fire, like so may others
used, abused from chafed hands
and cold hearts ...

TY honey.

 

[Quoll]

For the first time in weeks my stomach is not tied in knots, I hope it lasts.

 

[GiveawayGirl]

My daughter running toward me down the corridor in the airport shouting "Mommy! Mommy! Mommy!"

(I'm going to come back and read this the next time she slams her bedroom door and shouts "FINE!")

 

[bobsgirl]

My daughter running toward me down the corridor in the airport shouting "Mommy! Mommy! Mommy!"

(I'm going to come back and read this the next time she slams her bedroom door and shouts "FINE!")

Yay! You're back!

 

[EJFan]

one of the things that always makes me happy and "feeds my soul" is when i finally think of that trivial, stupid, inane, pointless piece of obscure information that's been evading me and driving me nuts for days!

yesterday i couldn't think of the other name for "rock, paper, scissors" and this morning it finally hit me... sho-ram-bo... or however it's spelled.

in any case, i'm excited and ready to have a fantastic day!

EDIT:
i just remembered... it's rho-sham-bo (again, or however it's spelled). i had it right this morning but i typed it wrong. lol.

 

[GiveawayGirl]

Yay! You're back!

What a nice welcome home!

I was gone ten days longer than I had planned but I have finally returned.

 

[midwestyankee]

My daughter running toward me down the corridor in the airport shouting "Mommy! Mommy! Mommy!"

(I'm going to come back and read this the next time she slams her bedroom door and shouts "FINE!")

Welcome back, GG.

 

[EJFan]

i heard this quote tonight and it sounded highly appropriate, given the recent influx of white supremacy threads. sadly, i don't know to whom to attribute it.

"prejudice is the raft to which a shipwrecked mind clings in order to float to safety."

 

[reallyred]

This is what feeds my soul:

my son's laughter

knowing that my parents have always loved me and still love me today and will love me forever

the sun shining on my face unexpectedly (when the clouds move away and the sun is just suddnly THERE)

hearing my favorite songs in a row on the radio

spending time with a friend who gets me and is sincerely listening to me, hearing me.

the beauty of an act of kindness by a stranger

 

[midwestyankee]

Thinking about going home after two weeks on the road. I like travel but after a while living out of a suitcase grows old. I think I remember what it's like to make my own breakfast, sit in my favorite chair with a book, and listen to the little creaks and sighs that are unique to my home.

 

[EJFan]

I like travel but after a while living out of a suitcase grows old.

welcome home MWY (in advance, and spoken as though i was actually in a geographic position to do such a thing).

fwiw, this statement quoted above is why performers seem so demanding and diva-ish when their contract riders are scrutinized by the public. next time you hear a news story or entertainment report about how j-lo wants white roses or barbara needs a certain type of rug, keep this in mind. they're not assholes (well, maybe streisand is)... they're just trying to achieve some degree of comfort while in strange places.

 

[ZOOMORPH]

Soul hunger.....

Why is it that although so many profoundly SATISFYING things feed the soul it also seems that the soul is always hungry?

 

[Cathleen]

Why is it that although so many profoundly SATISFYING things feed the soul it also seems that the soul is always hungry?

I think my soul will always be hungry, or I hope for always or I'd think my soul was dying. That would be equivalent of being alive but not living.


WMFS...

* Yoga. Focusing on each breath and each movement. Basic simplicity.

* Laughter and honesty in a great conversation. Knowing that in two weeks we can laugh in person! Can't wait bg and b. ; )

* A sense of well being deep inside again.

 

[bobsgirl]

* A sense of well being deep inside again.

That's what we like to hear!

 

[wicked woman]

I think my soul will always be hungry, or I hope for always or I'd think my soul was dying. That would be equivalent of being alive but not living.


WMFS...

* Yoga. Focusing on each breath and each movement. Basic simplicity.

* Laughter and honesty in a great conversation. Knowing that in two weeks we can laugh in person! Can't wait bg and b. ; )

* A sense of well being deep inside again.

Happy for both you, Cate, and bg. Know you'll have a fabulous time.

 

[Cathleen]

Happy for both you, Cate, and bg. Know you'll have a fabulous time.

How could we not -- this is the woman with giggling boobies! Thanks WW, it will be loads of fun.