Women of a certain age.

Welcome, Pantalones!

How nice to have two men on this thread, keeping us company. Good company is a thing to value. Mixed company makes it sweet.

Love your birdies, Diane!

A 22 yr old man, even. Wow, why did he look at this thread??

Thanks, Clary. They are hummingbirds sort of as a talisman to get them to nest in our tree again this year.

Pantalones is a very interesting young man and I have a feeling he is unusual in his openess to women of all ages. They are rare, but they do appear every few decades.

Or, he misses his mom.

Either one is OK with me.

For what it's worth I have always (even when I was pantalones' age) found older women--from forty through seventy (my heart has even fluttered over a beauty in her early eighties) the most attractive. Lovely young girls are nice but nothing like women.

And that is one of the reasons why I love you dearly and hope to have an affair with you in my next life, before I find Dys and ravish him and have his love child.

Yep, there's much to be said for reincarnation.

Giggling mischieviosly...



I wonder if I spelled that right...




We wave from over the border.

*Waves back* Hello ladies.



Good question. I love good quotes, quotes like the green quotes in Diane's first post on this thread. I also love reading/listening to excerpts from someone's life like JPB's post in page 2 of this thread. I knew this thread would contain pieces of yourselves.

I still live with my parents, so it's not that I miss my mom as much as I learn about her.

<blowning kisses JL's way. >
You o' charmer! :wink:

Jeez you're greedy, Diane!

Hah, when I said over the border, I meant New Mexico and Arizona.

That was odd, me being an old LA person with friends with relatives in TJ, I wasn't, at that minute, thinking of the US Mexico border.
Philosophically, I'm against borders - at the same time I appreciate cultures developing via borders.

I have 2 sons who are studying borders, as it happens, one as part of a law degree and the other as part of a 'Conflict, Security and Development' Master's. They are fascinating, borders.

Pantalones, then the first part of my answer was correct and you are, simply, an exceptional young man.

MsOlga, of course I'm greedy, I was too "nice" in this life and it took until I was sixty to really live. Next time honey, look out!!

The logistics of all this might pose a problem--will I have to learn quatum mechanics/physics? Will I have to know how many steps I have to go for nirvana so that I'll know to stop before I get there? That would be like going to heaven for me--boring! As Mark Twain once said--I will paraphrase: I wouldn't want to have to listen to harp music all the time...

Jo--

mis·chie·vous (msch-vs) KEY

ADJECTIVE:

Causing mischief.
Playful in a naughty or teasing way.
Troublesome; irritating: a mischievous prank.
Causing harm, injury, or damage: mischievous rumors and falsehoods.


I know this one because of hearing someone I very much respected complaining that mischievous was so often mispronounced. I never mispronounced it again.

To me, "mischief" is fun that is ALMOST, but not quite, "evil."
Nevertheless, reality is beyond good and evil. If I don't hurt people it's not because I do not want to be "evil"; it's simply because I do not want to hurt them. Good and evil are unnecessary concepts with regard to my ethics. It is sometimes said that "virtue is its own reward", i.e., it feels good to do good. In other words we do good for selfish reasons. So much better than enjoying evil. I think it might said that most often "evil is its own punishment." Imagine having the mind of a Hitler or (that unfortunate kid) Cho. I visualize the demons of Hell as great sufferers who feel compelled to inflict pain on others, and increase their own misery in doing so.

Sorry to get so serious. I would never talk this seriously to airbrushed "girls" (my bias), only to women.

Wow, was that boring. I really know how to spoil a good time!

JL, that was very well said and it's good to know that you feel comfortable talking about serious topics on this thread of women, not air-brushed girls.

I'm also sure that most of us would feel no compunction in telling you to lighten up if we wanted to continue being silly.

What I appreciate so much about your philosophy is that you choose to live a good life, avoiding evil, not because you are frightened of going to hell, but because it is the right thing to do. There is an enormous difference in the two concepts.

My ex-mother-in-law, a very religious woman, has actually said that she could never steal for fear of being caught. I waited for her to say because it was the wrong thing to do, but those words were never uttered. She was, and is, a lovely lady, so I think my suprise was more profound because of her religious background, yet that very concept has always been one of the reasons that religion holds no appeal for me.

Getting caught, going to hell, don't seem to give an individual the strong incentive to build into their character the concept of doing something because it is right. I do think most people do come to understand that idea, but not after the childish notion of not wanting to get caught or not wanting to risk going to hell has been outgrown.

I really don't want this to turn into a religious debate, but I found you post very interesting and not at all surprising, coming from you.

Now, evil or not, I hope to have several lives left in which to be naughty and nice and to make my choices based on my individual concerns, not only on what I thought I should do to please everyone else. I was such a hopelessly slow learner in this one, I have a lot of living left to do and I want to be young enough to experience it all, even if it takes lots more lives...

That said, the past few years with Dys have taught me more about the validity of being myself than all the therapy in the world. The years have been full and meaningful in every way. So I guess it is possible to live enough for quite a few lives if the right two people are involved.

Were this to be said in person it would make me blush at least as much as any girl my age could.


To continue stating why I read this thread. This here transcends age and gender, it's a concept so simple but I had not thought about it. It has the same effect a good book will have on me.

{{{{{{{{{{ Pantalones }}}}}}}}}}

Anytime you find yourself in New Mexico, please stay with us. We love company, especially smart, friendly company of whatever age.

Diane

Terrific attitude, I think. (And I can relate. Been far too "nice" & unadventurous about these things myself, I'm afraid. Though quite alarmingly reckless about other aspects of life! A bit more balance might have been wiser, in retrospect. :wink: )

So right then, you can be my inspirational role model! How's that?