That is a really good way of looking at it. I have had a chaotic decade recently and my family all enjoy celebrating the every day.
@JasonFisher wow! 
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Powerful! My abusers never got justice. Hopefully yours did!
I sometimes feel guilty commercial fishing. I also love it. Not the killing part, but the thrill and success of the hunt. I dissacociate from the slaughter.
Some species are more valuable alive. We round them up and send them to a miserable existence for however long they end up living. Sometimes a week or two. I see their fear. It bothers me more.
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@Jenny I’m sorry you have had a chaotic decade. Life can be full of the most wonderful surprises and the most devistatingly blows. I’ve realized the who we are on a day to day basis is generally what makes us who we are. How we respond to life is truly up to us, even when it feels like everything is out of our control. I hope this decade will be better for you.
@JasonFisher In a way, there was some justice. But then he was released and caused more chaos and pain to my family, and ultimately to me through proxy. I feel it’s a little complicated, but in the end I decided that I could hang on with hate and bitterness, which was actually controlling me, or I could recognize and accept that what had been taken was gone, never to be regained; but that all I could do was work on myself and the now. It’s hard when dealing with issues of abuse on any level. I’m sorry yours never got justice; though I would like to believe that eventually all things come back to us.
Cause and effect. Like Chaos Theory. The butterfly flaps it’s wings and a storm gathers around the world. We may never know what comes back to these people, but I think that everything we do sets off a chain of events we can’t know or anticipate.
BUT, I hope none of this brings the thread down! Very different experience across the board! Some exciting and wonderful, and others dark and terribly in their uniquness.
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I met Donovan Leitch when my boys choir was engaged to sing on the soundtrack of ‘Brother Sun, Sister Moon’. He had a cold and ignored us kids for the most part. We must have done a dozen takes of the theme song, after rehearsals. We kept screwing up the notes or making other sounds during the recording.
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That is hilarious and you are probably one of very few people to be able to say that!
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I caught a flying squirrel this winter! Not by hand & I was fully clothed. Large rodents in the house can really get your adrenaline going.
He has a little mouse trap on his foot in this pic (which was removed) but he was totally fine & now he’s back in the wilderness where he belongs.
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Me falcon Xerxes. Went to let the dogs out and he had an injured wing in the back heard. Was able to grab him by hand but didn’t have a chance to grab a glove. Wish I had pictures of my hand. Kept for about a year and was very trainable for being wild. As long as he had a frog or two and could go outside he was happy to be warm I think haha.
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It’s different for everyone; mine was 4 hours and not too bad. All natural, although when I thought I’d like something it was too late by then, 
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We were all camping, sitting around watching this chipmunk jump around. Literally everyone was watching. As the chipmunk decided to go to the next tree about 10 feet away, a hawk swooped down, skidded a few feet, grabbed the chipmunk and flew away. WE ALL LOST OUR MINDS!!! OOOOHHHHH DINNER TIME!!! That was crazy.
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I’m very impressed by all these happenings 
I don’t have anything really uncommon to offer. I laughed so hard many many years ago when my persian cat slipped and slumped into the bath. He looked 5 sizes smaller and smelled wonderful for the rest of the week (I had a lavender foam bath) 
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Oh ya, but interesting you say "finally an epidural-not that common unless having cesarean "
They totally recommended cesarean to pretty much everyone in my prenatal group.
I didn’t want one. A lot of people have them here.
Wow he’s beautiful
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Is it hard carrying that heavey set of balls?
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I think… that’s why it capsized!
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My best friends uncle was the guy inside R2 D2 in the early Star Wars, we spent loads of time with him and his family as we were growing up. I had his autograph for years, no idea what happened to it. My friend had loads of Star Wars stuff. I’ve still never seen it 
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There’s been a few things. I’ve swam with sea lions, I lived in Ukraine for a month, zip lining upside down, actually walked on ground zero and helped build the Freedom Towers. Been several other things, but those we’re either the most exhilarating or sombering.
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Unique, but also similar to my brother in law, who caught a squirrel in the house, while naked, because it had fell down the chimney in the night and woke them up making a racket.
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Thom Yorke told me to F*#@ off.
Although that may not be very unique, because he seems like quite moody person.
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i used to sleep 14 hours a lot of days when i was younger up until my 20’s-ish.
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Experiencing the opening ceremonies of a professional cross country race, from the starting line, with 20+ dirtbikes on either side of you. Adrenaline overload to say the least!
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