Birthday party for our friend Neil Sperling hosted at Branka's forum OMNIFORM:
http://community.adlandpro.com/forums/1226457/ShowThread.aspx

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Singer/Songwriter ROGER HODGSON, also lead singer from SUPERTRAMP:
Find out what makes him a true artist, and master-craftsman of sound,
people like him are the proof of our unique gifts:
http://community.adlandpro.com/forums/thread/1226397.aspx

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Congrats thread for this week's POTW Dimitra Bravou:
http://community.adlandpro.com/forums/thread/1226276.aspx

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Best Forum Awards for May is now open for voting: http://community.adlandpro.com/forums/1226733/ShowThread.aspx

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24 BLESSINGS:
1 for every hour (You sleep? Then it's 1.5 for every waking hour)

1. Thanks for being you

2. Thanks for making an effort

3. Thanks for reading my writing, on some days numerous times

4. Thanks for writing to me, numerous times daily again

5. Thanks for doing more than you need to

6. Thanks for being strong in a weak world

7. Thanks for seeing the goodness in people

8. Thanks for making me see more goodness in people

9. Thanks for laughing at seriousness

10. Thanks for being serious about foolishness

11. Thanks for having monumental patience

12. Thanks for making the world closer together

13. Thanks for holding demons farther away

14. Thanks for all the words of true human spirit

15. Thanks for using your mind

16. Thanks for being a leader

17. Thanks for allowing me to lead you

18. Thanks for taking time when you have so little on some days

19. Thanks for telling me what I don't want to hear in a nice way

20. Thanks for knowing how people feel before they read what you wrote

21. Thanks for saying things other people think about but won't say

22. Thanks for aspiring to greater achievements

23. Thanks for your realness in an unreal environment

24. Thanks for being a lightning rod in a stormy field

Written by me, just now, because. (I felt like it!) It's important, I try to think of 24 blessings before going to sleep sometimes but it's too much, but this time in the morning, now I finally found 24 within myself/ourselves.

Hi Tim,

Thanks for posting. Life seems to throw everything at us all at once sometimes.  We all live inside our own heads at the same time we have to live in the world with everyone else who is living inside their heads.  There were times in my life when I said I don't want to be a stepmother, and I'm not sure if I want to be a stepgrandmother, but we don't always make those decisions based on what we want.  Becoming a grandparent is not our own decision about when it happens, and it happens often before we feel old or look old or want to be thought of as old.  Becoming a stepparent is a residual effect of marrying someone who has children, and that actually caused me to gradually become much less selfish at the height of my youth, that wasn't a choice to continue living only for myself or taking care of other people first.  Family surrounds us, we don't choose who creates our own circle, we just are a part of it and hopefully create positive ripples, not negative. 

Dealing with after-effects of suicide, wondering if someone didnt say something, or if someone did say something at the wrong time, in the wrong tone. That can go on and on.  Or expecting too much from a disabled person, not in the physical sense, but in the emotional overly tired sense that they already have a mountain to carry and asking a small thing could be a major set-off.

Being online, we don't always see other people or hear other people, so our words have to be precise without being harsh, and hopefully precise in goodness not badness, and that's a task.  Then recognizing "realness" and effort from other people is something we need to be aware of, we take people for granted and don't always open our minds to everything some people are doing, and many people are doing much more from their hearts than expected.

Hi Kathleen,

I wished to make a short visit to my forum, to the Neil`s party, but was attracted here :) .

First, let me thank you very much for spreading the word about our party (thanks for posting there also) ...

BUT WHAT HAVE AMAZED ME .... REALLY AMAZED ARE THOSE 24 BLESSINGS.

L A D Y  - since an American elections, when read a few of your SO SO SMART POSTS, I knew that you`re a very special and very smart .... but now you pwrmitted us to see you a little deeper.

Brief Brief Branka must sto here ... sharing ONE BRIEF BUT CORDIAL HUG ... and must disappear ... but would be back to your topics as soon as possible.

I typed this too fast ... apologize for all errors I could done.

Love, blessings,

Branka

Thank you, Branka

I was out taking a walk and thinking...too bad sometimes we can't separate our minds from being "human beings".   I would be much smarter sometimes!   I always did very well in school up until I became a teenager and then I felt like my mind went out the window, I'm glad some days I have it in my head full force.  Thanks very much for your visit, and everything you do in the moments online, when you are already busy offline.