I've had many dreams and have lived them all so far. Now a new one is beginning and I'll gve that all I have too.
The one that took the longest was qualifying as an artist. I was too afraid I'd not live up to anyone's expectations of me in that regard. They all thought I had talent, but I wasn't sure, so didn't want to fail. I did it though and surprised myself.
I lived in Kenya for a while many years ago and Mombasa and Nairobi hold some very special memories for me, not least of which was that I left Nairobi in a two seater plane made of balsa wood and paper, to fly the length of the rift valley to the Ethiopian border. Magical.
Have you read the rules for posting? You have broken quite a few rules so far in your postings, in being insulting, posting the contents of someone's e mail, derogatory remarks regarding gender, the list goes on..........
I'd be careful I wasn't banned if I were you.............
I was visiting the seaside at a festival, while taking a rest from business a few years back, when I lost my purse. I had photos in it but no address and also had £700 in it as well, payment for some work I had done. I didn't discover the loss until I got home later that night.
I asked around but no luck. Then a few days later my sister phoned and said that a local hotel manager had phoned her, knowing that she was my sister, and asking her to pass on the message that someone had handed in my purse to them and wanted no reward.
I went there and picked it up and not one penny was missing. I would have loved to have thanked them but no one knew who the person was.
We not only both saw the deer, but were both sober, drug free, and had no cause to take pictures of the side of a road that looked like any other road........ It always baffled me.....
That is so true. Face to face communicaton is always best and taking the time to make your meaning clear, and of course listening to the other persons point of view too is crucial.
Studies showed that flavonoids found in dark chocolate or cocoa have two positive effects on the heart. The antioxidants block arterial damage that is caused by free radicals and it inhibits platelet aggregation which causes heart attack and stroke. Other studies are showing that the flavonoids also inhibit the enzyme that causes inflammation.
The antioxidants in dark chocolate are four times the amount found in green tea, and we all know how good green tea is for us. Antioxidants remove free radicals from the body which damage cells and cause diseases such as cancer.
Actually chocolate is quite a healthy snack. It contains phosphate and minerals, potassium, magnesium, Vitamins B1, B2, E, and D and an average size chocolate bar contains about 200 calories.
Studies done on chronic fatigue syndrome and ME have had good results too........
"Dark chocolate is high in polyphenols, which have been associated with health benefits such as a reduction in blood pressure.
"Also high polyphenols appear to improve levels of serotonin in the brain, which has been linked with chronic fatigue syndrome and that may be a mechanism."
He added that although more research was needed to confirm the findings, patients would not do themselves any harm by eating small amounts of dark chocolate and no-one in the study put on any weight.
"If you derive benefit, then it's a no-harm, no-risk situation."
More bSmall amounts of dark chocolate "efficiently reduced blood pressure," report the researchers, who included Dirk Taubert, MD, PhD, of Germany's University Hospital of Cologne.
How small is a small amount of dark chocolate? Participants in Taubert's study were limited to 30 calories per day of dark chocolate. That's roughly the number of calories in a Hershey's Kiss.
Dark Chocolate Benefit? Taubert's study included 44 adults aged 56-73 in Duisburg, Germany.
The 24 women and 20 men had mild high blood pressure (hypertension) or borderline blood pressure that fell just short of hypertension. They were otherwise healthy and weren't taking blood pressure drugs or nutritional supplements.
Taubert's team split participants into two similar groups.
One group got 30-calorie daily doses of dark chocolate for 18 weeks. The researchers checked the amount of cocoa in the German chocolate bars.
For comparison, the other group got a similar daily dose of "white chocolate," which doesn't contain chocolate liquor or cocoa.
Both groups got the same instructions: Take your chocolate dose two hours after dinner, don't change your normal diet and fitness habits, and keep a diet and exercise diary.
Dark Chocolate and High Blood Pressure Participants in the dark chocolate study got blood pressure tests and checkups at the study's start, midpoint, and end.
By the end of the study, those eating dark chocolate lowered their systolic blood pressure by nearly three points and their diastolic blood pressure by almost two points, on average.
Systolic blood pressure is the first, or top, number in a blood pressure reading. Diastolic blood pressure is the second, or bottom, number in a blood pressure reading.
Blood pressure didn't budge for better or worse in the white chocolate group onuses.........
Not really, but I find that the early part of any relationship is a bit dicey and open to misunderstandings and communication issues. When it is international, that is amplified often by cultural differences too, which only means you have to work harder.
I am sure you understand all this Stress, being from one country/culture and living in another.
I have seen and smelled things that I can't explain. I smell things that remind me of my grandmother when I am in need of help or am feeling down sometimes and always feel reassured.
A friend and I were out along a road one day and photographed 4 baby deer along the road, in August, in Alabama, out of season, and without mothers, about 100-200 yds apart along the road. We took photographs, he with a digital camera and me with an ordinary (agfa film) camera.
When we got back to his house, he put his camera into the computer and all the photographs were there, everywhere we had been, but in the ones with the deer, everything was there except the deer, in all of them.
When I got back to Ireland, I sent my films in to the local pharmacy to be developed and I found all the pics taken the same time that he had, in the same places, but the same thing had happened in the ones of the deer, no deer anywhere, not even a trace under magnification of where they might have been. I can't explain this, can you?
Earlier than that I was in a place outside, where all natural noise stopped for over 3 minutes, witnessed and timed, no birdsong, no katydids, no leaf movement on trees, no traffic sounds in the distance, no animal sounds, no air movement, nothing, total silence.......
I also have a pics of me with a beam of light on my shoulder, taken on an overcast day with no sun filtration anywhere. Two different kinds of camera again, both show it the same. Any explainations?
I am the oldest of 9 children. I have 3 sisters and 5 brothers. I found that you get more responsibility as an older sibling. Both of my parents worked, so I helped raise all my younger siblings. None of my family are shy. All of them are outgoing and sociable. I might be more opinionated that my siblings though, and see possible dangers more quickly than them, because I had to do that as a child.
I believe that any relationship can work as long as each person is putting 100% of themselves into it and is willing to compromise. I think that is a planetary thing, not just something that is indiginous to any particular country.
It is a tough question about anorexia. So many factors seems to be contributing to the cause. Magazins, media, how kids are taught to perceive themelves, school and peer pressure, needing attention, control isues, the listis endless.
I may be very unpopular for my views here, (in fact I'm almost sure I will be), but, it all comes down to parenting. When children are born, to me they are a very precious gift, one that requires us to challenge ourselves way beyond who we are and what we believe in order to keep them from making mistakes that will ruin their future lives. It is our responsibility to teach them how to filter and process what the world will try to fill their minds with, and to keep the kind of stress from them that will cause them to do things detrimental to their health. This is far from easy, but we all have access to the resurces that will help us do this, if we want to take the time and make the effort to do this. There is no excuse for young children to be anorexic........
OK back to the question that started the thread............
It looks like I may be having a relationship that is international, in that the person I have met is bi-racial and has houses in 6 or 7 different countries and shares time among them, so I guess I will be too. Does that count as an international relatonship?
Calling people morons, units, and in earlier posts, fat, or fatso, is not generally a way to make friends I find. That aside, your preferences are just your preferences, nothing more , nothing less. You shared them.
What, maybe, will be a lesson for another time is, that you have to allow people to make judgement on who YOU are , based on what YOU say, and pissing off normal, middle aged, healthy, and very often good looking, caring women, is not something that reflects well on YOUR character, so you will get the response you got.
My opinion is that you are getting what you set out to get, ie: people who will use you. Money does not buy love or respect from anyone, in any country, in any time frame, on this planet anyway.
If you love a person with money, isn't it about the love not the money? Money can be as detrimental to finding love, as poverty is. Both have their own kinds of problems.
Although I agree that there are many ways to ease stressful thought, I personally use a simple meditation technique, that involves sitting in a quiet room, comfortably, and listen to what you can hear in the room , then outside it, then further away. every time you veer from the sounds into thoughts, go back and start again. It doesn't take long for the thoughts to be retrained and restrained. With practice it gets easier.
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I am just going to take it one day at a time and hope for the best. I think that is all we can do.
RE: What's stopping you?
I've had many dreams and have lived them all so far. Now a new one is beginning and I'll gve that all I have too.The one that took the longest was qualifying as an artist. I was too afraid I'd not live up to anyone's expectations of me in that regard. They all thought I had talent, but I wasn't sure, so didn't want to fail. I did it though and surprised myself.