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What's in a Name?

I have acquaintances but few friends (Ha! I almost wrote fiends!) I don't go to church. Don't go to bars, etc, so contact with other people is limited. I'd like for there to be a place to go play Scrabble with other Scrabble fanatics, and I looove to play card games and Mexican train dominoes, and wish there were a group where you could discuss literature and learn things and have intellectual stimulation. And I love live theatre. I'd like to have been a stage actress.
I have one good friend, another nurse named "Dottie" I've known for 22 years, and my cousin Ellie, an invaluable person. Although it's been enjoyable to live alone and pursue solitary interests, that's not good for a person. Being a curmudgeon doesn't help. By nature I am soft and loving and tender, but had to grow prickles and thorns to confront life as it is. Life isn't kind to soft tender beings.
Dottie thinks I'm a bit nuts to be so passionate about environmental issues, like the oil reserve deal in the salt domes in our county, and the logging etc. It's funny--I looked up the meaning of my maiden name and it means "people of the woods." Apropos I think. So here I am, with my roots in the woods--it was my fate I suppose. But in my next reincarnation I hope to be a hawk; it would be nice to fly away sometimes.   Susil

posted on July 24, 2008 7:45 AM ()

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How nice it would be if there was a organized group doing the things you like to do, but groups can get organized, too. Maybe a simple notice posted (library, coffee shop, diner, grocery store) would attract fellow Scrabble and card playing fans to meet at your local library, school or at a community center? You never know what fun you might discover. My Mom was an actress and theater director and started a community theater in the 1950s, meeting first in a local grade school. It's still going strong. It has had its own theater building since the early 1960s. Are you close to any community theater?
comment by marta on July 31, 2008 8:50 PM ()
Appropriate maiden name for you.
comment by shesaidwhat on July 27, 2008 7:59 AM ()
The hawk family sounds right to me. Perhaps an eagle,
because they get to go so high. And are so beautiful.
Actually I think osprey is in that family.
comment by tealstar on July 27, 2008 5:18 AM ()
I'd like to be a duck, probably a mallard.
comment by troutbend on July 25, 2008 9:38 AM ()
I feed the wild birds everyday.They get wheat bread and whatever else we have.They also have a big dish of fresh water daily.The birds will actually come within inches of me.I find this to be the most peaceful part of my day.Laurie
comment by dogsalot on July 24, 2008 8:28 PM ()
If you wuz a bird, what kind would you be? This morning an osprey
perched above me on the pier while I was stretching. I looked up
and said, you poop on me, you're dead meat. However we both
know that was an idle threat as I couldn't grab him anyway.
comment by tealstar on July 24, 2008 8:20 PM ()
There are places that you can go to play games, at least there are around me. One of my favorite things to do on a saturday night when I am not in the show is to go to a place called armada games and a bunch of us sit around and play board games for hours. My son even likes to go and sit with the other kids whos parents brought them along. I wish more cities had places like this
comment by ducky on July 24, 2008 5:09 PM ()
How fitting your name is. Nothing wrong with being interested in the earth's needs
comment by panthurdreams on July 24, 2008 1:15 PM ()
The coastline near my home has been an important invasion route for thousands of years. Each passing army executed the local rebel leaders and dug fortifications. Nobody thought to restore the land.
All of civilization is kind of like that.
Lemons, figs, dates and pomegranates grow in my garden. They sustain me.
comment by bumpedoff on July 24, 2008 10:45 AM ()

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