Wish Upon a Star

Thank you etva, poetry for me is rare, but I was gazing out the window this morning and the words just came.

lol Vlad, I read that and thought how the underwater world would be a peaceful place to be, and then I remembered they have predators there! So if I wished I was a fish, I'd want to be a very big one!

That's awesome Tired! I love jibjab. I'll have to hunt up a photo!

Thanks Jerseygirl, a very happy Thanksgiving to you!

Mther, and believer, thank you very much for your lovely friendship, and your kind words.

CL1, how very true that fury, rage and wrath of life is always at our heels. I'm reminded of the last lines in the movie The Passion Of Christ: "it is easy to love those who love us, but can we love those who hate us?" I once had a little plaque on my wall that said:

There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer;
no disease that enough love will not heal;
no door that enough love will not open;
no gulf that enough love will not bridge;
no wall that enough love will not throw down;
no sin that enough love will not redeem...
It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble;
how hopeless the outlook; how muddled the tangle; how great the mistake.
A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
If only you could love enough you would be
the happiest and most powerful being in the world...
Emmet Fox

And thank you too bigsaf, for reading it and commenting.

Thank you very much dearest Doc D! I love you bunches too!

Thank you very much Mary!

That was lovely SDH, thank you. I believe we are lilies of the field!

Thank you JJ, what a kind thing to say. I'm looking forward to your article, I'll be there.

Same thing happens to me JJ, I'll see an article or seed of a friend pop up on my tracker and when I go to the article it's been up for a week! Things go wonky around here with the tracker, that's for sure!

Hey JJ, theaftervine.com is rolling along nicely. I think if you tried to log on, it will re-send your log in info to your email address. You know, it's funny you mentioned FB because I was thinking I wished you were there and started a group for fishing friends. Here's what I discovered about FB. My kids were asking me to log on to FB and I really didn't want to and wasn't that interested because I can talk to them on the phone and by email etc. But I wanted my neice's email address and my daughter said she's on FB, so I logged on and found her email. I wasn't used to FB at first and when a few of my ex-inlaws photos popped up as possible 'friends' I thought, "oh hell no, now I know I'm not interested in FB!!!"

Then I got a request from a NV friend to join a group on FB so I went back over there to check it out and it's been a blast ever since. I learned I didn't have to "friend" the ex's and almost all the friends I have on FB are NV friends. I have really enjoyed the groups I'm in on FB and it's cheered me up because I found NV friends who were banned and I was really happy to see them again. It's a real drag to have NV friends you enjoy and then they get banned over an "incorrect tag" or something dumb like that, and then you never see them again. I almost left NV several times just because it was so depressing. So now, I don't spend much time in NV groups anymore after I discovered NV staff read private group conversations and passes the info along to favored Viners. FB has been very freeing because anything said in the FB private groups stays private and no NV rules apply there. I like it!

That's what made me think of you and the fishing friends. If you started a private FB group and invited them all there, you guys could easily strategize, save docs on there, plan articles for NV or for the newspapers and town hall meetings etc. I've learned alot about how helpful FB can be. Now I'm on there everyday, checking in to see what we're all doing and talking about etc. You could think of a cool name for your group and make it a private group so that only your members can see any comments. It's a meeting place where you can all check in and see what's up and what everyone is doing. The comments flow along instantly and it's completely different from trying to communicate on NV or even on email.

So anyways, I just wanted to tell you about all that in case you might want to start your own group over there. Mrs D and I are both on FB and I know we'd love to be in your group there.

Oh....I get where you're coming from. Hey....go for it JJ.....it has to be done. I think it's terrible our fishing community has been reduced to political activists who have to fear for their family's safety for speaking the truth, instead of happy fishing families as they have been for hundreds of years. I just don't understand what the hell is happening in this country. I'm proud of you JJ.

Thank you Matti.

Beautiful JJ, thank you. I hadn't heard of Rose Royce before, what a lovely voice.

You aren't butting in at all CL1, thank you for commenting.

Hey JJ, I'm doing fine and hope you are as well. I've been taking a break from the Vine for the last month or so. I've been really busy with work, and getting ready for my daughter's wedding, and I went to my 40th high school reunion last weekend which was fun.

Thanks for sharing the music of Rose Royce, I enjoyed listening.