Thankful

[John]

i fell in love with NH as a kid/young guy. i promised myself that i would eventually move here. By mid feb, 2004 i began unpacking in Salem, NH and by the end of feb. i was fully home. i was almost completely at Peace.
THEN, before a few years passed, I reached the complete and deep 4Giveness which i had been studying for, and learning about, for about 30 years. i - finally - 4Gave the person who had ever done the most harm to me. i actualy began to wish that person well.
AFTER THAT, i had a strange spiritual reawakening. i had not at all found God. i was NOT looking. God found me...
My health was quite questionable at the time, after about 30 years in a chemical factory - and then a reactor fire which i stayed with to get control of and suffered exposure to some very nasty stuff. With numerous strange symptoms, i was very very very worried about my health. i was thinking i might die.
BUT, i did not want to put ANY of my remaining precious "life's energy" towards getting on the medical-industrial-path nor towards lawyering up to fight about my exposures. i had been paid for my work. i had taken risks. So, while i had never done great harm in this world, i had not always been nice in my lifetime. MY "KARMA" was about to start coming home.
i began to meditate.
Soon-thereafter, an absolute calmness - much like a very-tiny-litle candle-flame which does not flicker, at all - came over, and into, me. All of my worrys about my health were gone. Vanished. i realized/remembered that it does not matter - not one wit - how long i live nor when i die. What matters - completely - is that i live every day - all day long - as best i can...
Then, my good-health returned.
I had not felt better since I was a teenager.
Its like i had been taken to a dark edge, and then given a few more years to get it right. i think i'm getting it mostly right.
NOW, after further study and spiritual growth, my attitude is recently being tested again, and again, and again.
Its as if i keep getting ANOTHER chance to further improve my "karma."
i am ENORMOUSLY THANKFUL for the "extra" time, the lessons - and the tests.
TO EVERYONE, from my dearest friends to my most agressive "foe": THANK YOU!
i wish you all Peace in this Thanksgiving season.

[Kat Kanning]

Glad you're still here, John!

[Riddler]

hey dude.....
i gots the MOST negative ''karma'' in this place & i am ROLLING, WYATT..........''I FEEL ....CAPITAL'' (quotes from movie tombstone)
i feel like powers-fucking-booth in that movie, when he's all cranked up on opium......
i'm-a glad your particular idiosyncracies worked theyselves out .....bully for you
well, aside from not having opium at the moment, the wine is fine.....

carry on

[Tom Sawyer]

Hoping that others had a Happy Thanksgiving...

Sharing time together, remembering why we want to spend time together...

Jim and Lauren came and helped us patch our roof... we now have a more patchwork quilt roof than before. 
Thanks.

[Pat K]

Hope all had a good thanksgiving in the shire.

Though ya don't fool me none, I know you were booby trapping
that roof to catch Santa.

[firecracker joe]

thanks for sharing that story john, and i hope all had a happy thnksgiving, I did

[Russell Kanning]

Great thanksgiving yesterday and thankful for a great life:-)