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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 3, 2014 - 10:13pm PT
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One last quote from Mr. Muir. "My logs give back their light, slowly gleaned from the suns of a hundred summers."
Such a great summation of life itself. We grow and then, hopefully, we give back light that can last long past our own lives. I live with grand kids. I hope that my life will make a difference in theirs. Challenging them to reach, to live for more than the gaining of things. To explore and expand while they take their steps on this planet. Making their steps count.
Edit: Nice, Quantum 7. Love Proactive Living. :)
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rbord
Boulder climber
atlanta
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Thanks!
"There's a right way to live life and a wrong way to live life, and I know the riight way!" I think that we can choose to add that to our trilogy of commonalities or we can choose to believe that it's not a commonality and allow it to perpetuate our antagonisms.
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, or In What Time Zone Am I?
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I live with grand kids. I hope that my life will make a difference in theirs
Oh it will. Yes it will. My mom died when I was very young. My dad raised me with 3 brothers but my grandmother lived a couple blocks away. She was the main "mothering" figure in my life. Grandmothers (and grandfathers) , even if the birth parents are still around, I believe, are the most special people in the world.
Lovely thread, Lynnie. I'm glad to say that I'm feeling pretty dialed in on the first two...so hoping when number 3 say's howdy, I'll be ready to say "howdy" right back. But not for awhile!
Susan
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SicMic
climber
across the street from Marshall
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 4, 2014 - 01:37pm PT
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SicMIc.....so what is it about noses anyway? Why do they, of all things, keep growing?
Just thought of one of my fav movies. I'm not a movie watcher, hard to sit still, but I accidentally watched "Death becomes Her" years ago. The last scene in the movie really got me and I began to understand why death is a good thing. (Did I just say that?)
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SicMic
climber
across the street from Marshall
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I've heard that ears keep growing Lynne. Don't know what to tell ya about noses.
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MH2
climber
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Birth
John Gilley was born February 22, 1822, at the Fish Point on Great Cranberry Island, Maine, whither his mother, who lived on Baker's Island, had gone to be confined at the house of Mrs. Stanley, a midwife.
Life
http://www.gilleymedia.com/john1.asp
Death
In half an hour John Gilley had passed from a hearty and successful old age in this world, full of its legitimate interests and satisfactions, into the voiceless mystery of death.
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Bldrjac
Ice climber
Boulder
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Lynne,
I don't know you personally, and don't believe I knew your husband. But I have followed your posts for some years, and over time, in a sense mine have blended with yours since I lost my husband Jack. Perhaps our husbands knew each other "back in the day"....I never asked him, and now I can't. It's left to you and I to stagger forward.......sometimes with graceful leaps, sometimes with ugly diggers into the ground. But ever forward, nevertheless.
Jan, I don't know you either, but I know you as a person that posts up lovely and insightful words from time to time. I live in Boulder, too. Not sure if you ever knew Jack Roberts. Regardless, if you ever want to get together (always nice to have friends in new places!), my email is:
srfrpam@aol.com ......Life if short. All we have in the long run are our friends............
Pam
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MikeL
Social climber
Seattle, WA
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It’s said that not any of the three are real, Lynne.
“Time” is a lack of awareness (not here-and-now). It, too, is unreal.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 5, 2014 - 08:01pm PT
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Thanks for the post, Bldrjac, I hope our paths will cross as we travel this earth. I love to make my way across the US and as many foreign countries as I can. Truthfully, I work for gas money and air fare. Or, my latest goal, a place on a boat working and traveling the seas. Pretty much got the rest covered.
Losing the love of your life, best friend, best of everything has been the hardest challenge I've ever dealt with. But like you, Living and discovering.
Love your heart, Gal. Go for your dreams. Don't settle. Hugs, Lynne.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 5, 2014 - 08:13pm PT
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MikeL, Hmmmmmmmmmm
I am intrigued. Who says not any of the three.....Birth, Life and Death are not real?
These three words describe how humans enter this planet, spend their time here and leave. I find the leaving part supremely special, but so far not many have addressed it on this Thread.
“Time” is a lack of awareness (not here-and-now). It, too, is unreal.
I'm a bit puzzled by this phrase. But looking at meanings of time found this one. "a nonspatial continuum that is measured in terms of events which succeed one another FROM PAST TO PRESENT TO FUTURE. (Birth, Life, Death ?!)
From all I've just read, Time is the opposite of a lack of awareness. Time is all about awareness.
Thanks for making me think. Smiles and Cheers, lynnie
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WBraun
climber
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You forgot disease and old age. (Birth death disease and old age)
Life should not even be in there as life is eternal.
Life comes from life.
The living entity transmigrates from body to body according to it's desires .....
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 5, 2014 - 08:35pm PT
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As always, I hear you Werner and enjoy what your posts bring to heart, soul, body, mind and spirit.
I'm tuning into what you say "Life should not even be in there, life is eternal." and "Life comes from life." I agree although I don't know if our semantics are the same.
I didn't forget disease and old age, just figured they are a part of Life. And they lead to Death. Which I think you and I may agree on that we live on after our bodies die.
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WBraun
climber
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Birth death disease and old age are NOT part of life.
They are only part of the material body.
When you wear out your coat you throw it away and get another one.
You're not dead, but your coat is now different.
The material body is the gross physical covering of your real self (soul).
This a very simplistic explanation although is much more complex .......
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 5, 2014 - 09:27pm PT
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Ok, Werner, wrote some things and deleted. Need to think about your last statement a bit more. Have a handle on it, but I'm tired and I want to make sense when I post the response. Thanks as always for making me think. Cheers, Lynne
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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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Problem is, all the experts are dead.
That's what Ed LaChappelle, author of ABC's Of Avalanche Saftey said to me about avalanche experts 35 years ago. I've found it a useful koan with many applications over the years.
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Psilocyborg
climber
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Not just our lives, but the life, god's life, us. That is the commonality of us all, an interconnected consciousness.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 6, 2014 - 06:08pm PT
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Like that Psilocyborg, Interconnected consciousness...............Let's see how it fits.
And Yo, MikeL, waiting for response. Smiles, L.
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