Way up here in North Idaho, we have a saying, "If it ain't fixed, don't break it!" Actually, I am a California native transplant by way of Chicago and a job change for my husband, Ed. We LOVE it here and don't miss the non-fixable California economic climate, nor, the COLD climate of Chicago, soon coming up. And I wouldn't break the spell we have of living an alternate lifestyle here in the Inland Empire. It is different, that much I will say. It is a place of old values, some more valued than others, and some should plain be thrown out with the day old Coeur d'Alene Press. A place where it is unusual to see "someone who is other than white". You know the history folks, the KKK and the neo-Nazis, all that jazz. Well, they have been shooed away, like so many nasty flies. I guess that's why we are needed here, us transplants, to set things straight, to lift some eyebrows, to place some question marks over the neighbor's heads. Our little contribution is loving people, everyone, or most everyone, with a bit of what Christ would call real love. The love that accepts, and tries to understand the felon, the unwed mom, the homeless person, the toothless, 
(I say that tongue-in-cheek, though it is sad but true!), the messy meth user. We have had some of this sort in our household of 7 many a time. Trying to put aside self and putting on Jesus has been an experience that I highly recommend. This is real, folks, as real as it gets.
(I say that tongue-in-cheek, though it is sad but true!), the messy meth user. We have had some of this sort in our household of 7 many a time. Trying to put aside self and putting on Jesus has been an experience that I highly recommend. This is real, folks, as real as it gets.
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The title was a wild riddle/koan.
I love riddles. 'Um make Ya dizzy.
But, it's Good, Gooood, darn good.
There is pleasant countenance Mennonite's daughter who,when asked:`Well, how are you today?
She always pauses and smiles. Then:`She drawls out a slow spoken response to the words:`I'm Good.
Debbs4. I read this twice. I like it.
Ya request folk to evoke the Good.
The potential good quality virtues.
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The "transplant idea is fascinating too. Mennonites have these signs that change. They are by the mailbox.
One day as you drive into my rural town the sigh reads:`Prepare For Eternity. A few days later:`The wicked and lying tongue a most Almighty God despises.;) I love reading.
Somedays I'll feel sheepish. I look it up.
Write down a Hebrews text and ponder.
I've never felt them rude or evangelicals.
If they ask me to wear a shirt, shoes, pants, or black goulashes I don't weep, repent, rend my three piece sear-sucker-silk suit, nor will I cry all day in the moo-cow bin for weaned calfs. (silly) I do hate that as soon as a calf is born they put the calf in a small enclosed bin. It's fun to feed a cow milk tho. Where am I gone with this? Oh who cares.
I/You!
Your family isn't set out each day to be crooked, scheme, and do subtle Usury,
lie, berate,
and show
disrespect.
Good that you are blessed to be home. I say:`I'll stay home. I wish other folk would too.
People need to ruin?
Fix self first.
stop ruins.
self-research
won't hurt
self examine
atone for self
ramble Debb4
Great riddle
Good cones
Good ice cream
a ripples scoops
waffle goo cone
good drip on lap
ice cream b-fasts
Yea. Glory. Yea!
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How are You doing?
How is your ice cream?
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Why? Because when I read !
The ten minute interview with Meryl Streep, I get a popup IF I dare try to comment.
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Great thinker post.
Thanks for tolerating.
You deserve to be a waitress.
Wait on tables in a NYC bebop-o ice cream shop? Chop GoodCelery! corny. The names were both deleted long ago.
No FIX?
NO
WRITE
BACK
Boohoo.
as Meryl Streep and Julia Childs may say:`GOSH GEE. heehaw?
Maybe I'll go back outside to listen to crickets rub the hind legs?
Thanks Debbs4.
thank you!