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Dh is currently yelling at the TV...Alabama is playing Florida (he graduated from UA) and it seems Alabama may beat Florida and beat them badly.

I tend to sortof watch college football but pro games...nope, not so much.
 
One thing I would seriously love to do is some sailing... only been a few times. You're lucky Susan, that sounds like a great experience! :D
 
I love it. When I first knew John he was fresh back from crossing the Atlantic as first mate on a not very sound yacht. He was utterly brown, lean, hard and adorable. But I was totally immersed in my vocation.
We became close friends but it was when he took me sailing in the second year of friendship that the world changed between us.

As a very strong tough lady running a big pioneering national community I was used to being alone because would be lovers were admirers which isn't a good recipe. Inequality breeds resentment.
Suddenly on John's boat - an pld antique gaff rig cutter all made of solid teak wood - I was introduced to the whole different reality of the sea, with this extraordinary man fully in charge - of me! It was so wonderful for me to reverse the power roles, and trust my safety to him, and learn a little of his skills.

He is catlike on board, quietly at one with it all, knowing the air currents, the water currents, how they weave together with us in our wooden mini-earth. I felt those great powers of waters and air move through me until I didn't really exist except as their meeting point. John smiled at me with a great gentleness and I was a girl again, relying on his strength. I was lost, ecstatically lost!

Reader I handfasted him and 20 turbulent years later I yearn to go sailing again. Too much illness ... but next year we will renovate our poor neglected boat. She is in a bad way and it may not be until 2012 we sail her again. A lot of work. We are determined.
 
Shanj said:
I love it. When I first knew John he was fresh back from crossing the Atlantic as first mate on a not very sound yacht. He was utterly brown, lean, hard and adorable. But I was totally immersed in my vocation.
We became close friends but it was when he took me sailing that the world changed between us.

As a very strong tough lady running a big pioneering national community I was used to being alone because would be lovers were admirers which isn't a good recipe. Inequality breeds resentment.
Suddenly on John's boat - an pld antique gaff rig cutter all made of solid teak wood - I was introduced to the whole different reality of the sea, with this extraordinary man fully in charge - of me!
He is catlike on board, quietly at one with it all, knowing the air currents, the water currents, how they weave together with us in our wooden mini-earth. I felt those great powers of waters and air move through me until I didn't really exist except as their meeting point. John smiled at me with a great gentleness and I was a girl again, relying on his strength. I was lost, ecstatically lost!

Reader I handfasted him and 20 turbulent years later I yearn to go sailing again. Too much illness ... but next year we will renovate our poor neglected boat. She is in a bad way and it may not be until 2012 we sail her again. A lot of work. We are determined.
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Wow.. I love your love story.... so very romantic :D

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Thought I might share this here. As some of you know, my son is diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome, ADHD, Sensory Processing Disorder, severe Anxiety disorder, clinical depression, and I forget the rest. Anyway, it all falls under the "umbrella" of High-functioning autism and/or PDD.

I am subscribed to an online magazine, Parenting Special Needs. This is a very popular online magazine in the special needs community. They heard mention of an incident that happened to my son at his school, and asked me to share it, which I did. They then asked if they could publish it in their magazine, to which I agreed. The small article is in the current issue, and I've grabbed a screen shot of it and attached it here.

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I just stumbled upon this thread and wanted to say hello to all the other ladies here.
So much fun and interesting reading all in one place. :)
 
Peggy said:
Thought I might share this here. As some of you know, my son is diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome, ADHD, Sensory Processing Disorder, severe Anxiety disorder, clinical depression, and I forget the rest. Anyway, it all falls under the "umbrella" of High-functioning autism and/or PDD.

I am subscribed to an online magazine, Parenting Special Needs. This is a very popular online magazine in the special needs community. They heard mention of an incident that happened to my son at his school, and asked me to share it, which I did. They then asked if they could publish it in their magazine, to which I agreed. The small article is in the current issue, and I've grabbed a screen shot of it and attached it here.

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Awwwww, that is so awesome. He is adorable. I got goose bumps while I was reading that. He is such an angel. :)
 
Though Kier has said that he might make threads permissions based after XF goes Gold if we really want it. :D
 
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