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Registered: March 2012
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anywhere were there is some quiet. Right now i take a bus to school and that is usually the place were i get the time to think.
Yes i have to admit it, i do talk to myself often. Sometimes i think i'm crazy. I usually try to think about what happened during the day, the cute guy i met, school related material, you know the usual. Certainly, i love to be by myself, you know what they say; it's better to be alone then with bad company.
If i could chose a place to be alone and just think, it would have to be place were there is nature. I love go to local mountains and just have a nice talk with nature. I just find the peace and quiet that i always look for. It's amazing.
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My favorite place to be what a silly question you see it's in a tree. Actually. I love the tree in my front yard but when I need peace I go up to the 'castle'. Yes I know America doesnt have castles but this is an old mansion in the forest that burned down and it was made out of large slabs of stone makeing the ruins look like a castle. Within the ruins is a circular square wall (I can't explain any better youd have to see yourself) and there is a tree about a foot from the wall. You climb up between them and it is a beautiful place to rest on the top. There is also a a stone 'fence' i guess it would be running aorund the whole estate and sitting on top of that, its low, you can see the New York sky line. It is truly beautiful.
btw smith I would love to see your garden sometime I love them but I was never good at gardening myself. Plants dont ilke to grow for me. Maybe youll have to teach my someday.
Peace and trees
~andy
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smith
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Registered: January 1970
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I will carry on a whole conversation with myself like in a store....
"Do I want the red one or the blue one?"
"The blue one, I think. I already have a red one."
"But it's faded."
"I guess the red one. No, the blue one."
Now, mind you, these conversations are all under my breath. I haven't gotten to the out loud stage yet where people prolly look at you funny and circle around you >>haha<< Like the poor homeless guys do on the street.
You're right...the mountain ARE amazing !!
JJ
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I actually tried talking to my plants one eyar id lay next to my small garden having full discussions with my plants during the summer (someoen else said it helped). So like I dunno I think it might be the toxic new jersey soil ya know... Darn mutating plants, I think it migth be having soem effect on the crops. Oh wells (doesn't explain why the little old lady next door-- our gardens are back to back seperated by a wire fence-- has such a ncie garden and mine hates me sooo much!)
peace and trees
ANDY
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Your garden sounds like a wonderful refuge, smith. I hope it continues to bring you nothing but joy and peace.
Being the "city slicker" that I am, one of my absolute favorite (and necessary!) places (as you alreay know, smith!) is a nature preserve called Bartholomew's Cobble, which is right in the southwest corner of Massachusetts. You can climb a hill and (on a clear day) see as many as five states (Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Vermont and New Hampshire). Or you can walk around the cobble itself (a cobble is a natural outcropping of rock, this one formed as a result of the last Ice Age, with trees and other vegetation growing from it; it gives such an awesome sense of the primordial!). Or you can stroll the banks of the Housatonic River which forms a natural boundary to the preserve's property, petting the cows from the farm on the other side of the river which graze the meadow there, then stopping to sit under a tree and drink it all in (including the sounds of nature which provide such a wonderful feeling of peace and quiet). A friend of mine and I usually make our first of several annual visits there around the third weekend in May; I can't wait!!!
We have often talked of bringing a portable stereo with us to listen to Beethoven's Symphony #6 while there; but I think we've agreed without actually saying it that even that would disturb the "natural music"!
Oh, yes, I often talk to myself when I'm alone, especially in a setting like that (how can you help it?)! After all, there's nobody to argue with you, so you have no problem whatsoever getting your point across!
It's been a tough winter in this neck of the woods (and in others as well, I know!). Welcome spring!!!
We do not remember days...we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
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trevor
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We have some beautiful mountains just an hour drive out of Seattle with some great trails and creeks and lakes - great for hiking and camping. It's great to lay in the sun alongside the creek and listen to it babble. My boys and their friends like to play in it and I enjoy helping them be "dam builders." They said it "damn builders!" though. heh heh. I love the woods around here and have often thought of retiring in a little cabin with a simplified lifestyle.
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It's beside a small lake and sort of in the middle of no-where... There are neighbours and the closest town isn't very far away, but there's enough woods around it so it's really great  No electricity, no TV, just the nature around... and there's enough nature there so that every know and then there's been bears nearby... Haven't seen one (thankfully), though. Too bad I have to work this summer, so I don't kow if I'll get to spend much time there...
And yes, I do talk to myself. I'm not yet at the out loud stage either, but under my breath I often do talk to myself. And you know the game tictac(toe?)? The one where you place X's and O's and try to get 5 in line? I all too often play against myself, and actually lose all to often too...
Setras
That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
-Master Li in Neil Gaiman's Sandman
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smith
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Registered: January 1970
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Mama's friend's funny little kid comes out here alot and I help him build dams on the creek. He told his mom the same thing...."Me and smith are damn builders." I always add "And we're damn good too" for which I get a "look". hahaha!!
Funny how we all go outdoors to find peace. Cool, huh?
Everyone have a GREAT day !!
TGIF
smith
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**My family's hunting cabin in the middle of the 30,000 acre Green Mountain National Forest in Vermont. I never hunted, but I loved being there.
** Our summer place, which was on a large pond (or little lake, whichever you want). My bedroom was off one of the side porches, and I was surrounded by whispering pines and the gentle lapping of the waves against the boat dock.
** In the roof garden of a friend of mine in New York City. Great breezes, even on a hot day. And all the traffic was waaaaay down below.
Now, tho, of course, I am most at peace in my boyfriend Man's garden in Thailand. He's in it at least an hour a day, usually more. In Thailand, people good with gardens are said to have a "black thumb" because of the rich dark soil that's best for growing things. Funny, huh? He always shakes his head when I say he has a green thumb...
Tropical climate means the growing season never ends. From my easy chair, I can hear the three (yup, count em, three!) little fountains bubbling away. One is bamboo, one is in a lily pond, and the third is near our front door, trickling over some great shaped rocks.
I have pics in jpeg format if anybody wants to see Man in our garden, I'll happily send it.
It's amazing!
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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tim...of usa
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Location: buffalo, new york...USA
Registered: July 2002
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THANKS YOU from the bottom of this old guys heart smith.
i have been stressing and gettting my self all worked up about jeremy getting here and worried abotu a ton of silly goofy old man stuff but you my young and wise friend made this post and made me stop and remember what truly is important.'
o have a place i love to go to find peace its ok by the farm i grew up on and i dont get a chance to get there as often as i'd like but today reading all the other posts here i was able to close my eyes and go there in spirit.
thank you again smith
hugs
and smith hugs too {{{{{{{{jeamie}}}}}}}}
peace
tim...of USA
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Location: currently So Cal
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My favorite place is the Giant Forest in Sequoia National Park. It is best in the fall or spring when there are fewer visitors, the weather is cool or even cold, and the fog settles over the trees in the evening. It is both peaceful and eerie at the same time.
As a teen I loved to go into our back yard, through the woods and sit or lie on a fallen oak tree that setretched out over a swamp. I could stay there and stare at the clouds (or stars) for hours.
I talk to myself all too often. Actually I am talking to someone else, but no one is there. I do it out loud.
Think good thoughts,
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smith
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You are very welcome, Tim. I think we all forget the happy places sometimes when our stress levels go up. You have "happy" stress but the joy of someone else caring more than makes up for it. Happiness is a natural medicine for stress Not many days to go now !!
{{{{{a special smith hug just for you}}}}}
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Thats becuase outdoors has harmony indoors has concrete and brick. You cna't find peace where it cna't penetrate (like through bricks). So we all have to venture out of our small concrete safe boxes (aka houses) and find a little harmony through the freedom of nature
peace and trees
~Andy
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My favorite place in the whole world is my Grandpa's pond. It is a secluded place back a long lane. There is no running water and we still use outhouses but at least we have electricity!! I have grown up there and love to hear stories about "back in the day." I also love remembering my own memories...driving down the lane sitting on my mom's lap, no swimming for an hour after you've eaten,waterfalls in the sand, catching fish and putting them into holes that we dug in the sand and filled with water, the rope, hay rides, riding on the tractors with grandpa, skinny dipping, fireworks over the pond on the fourth of July, camping, bullfrogs (trying to catch them), Pie Irons and roasting marshmallows....... It is my haven, I can go there to think, have a party, or to hang out it doesn't matter. I love to take friends there and share it with them as well.
I can't find the words to describe what the pond really means to me or a way to share all of it's wonders and beauty unless you have been there. I'd love to take you...if you ever venture to NW Ohio look me up I would be glad to share this great place with you!
I don't like to be by myself very much there are times but generally I would like to be with at least 1 friend. Umm After reading this post I realized I talk to myself more than I thought and sometimes i do answer myself...Ask Andy...hehe!
smith thanks for the great question...I am glad that summer is here and I have a whole new summer ahead of me to make more memories at the pond!
Ducky!
"To the world you may be but one person, but to one person you may be the world!"
"Some people love you and some hate you.. those who hate don't know what they're missing and they're missing out!"
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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Alone in my head, on a small sailing boat, in too much wind, with someone else I like with me, alone in his head too.
Two against the elements. No time to think, just to react.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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I've always been a reluctant beach bum, but where ever there is a place where water, sand, nature and sky all meet, I'm there.
As for truely important places, here's a few others I prize:
the top of Attatash Bear Peak, in North Conway, New Hampshire has always taken my breath away. In the cold of winter, with snow piled high all over the mountain, you get a sense of purity and wonder that is beyond belief (as well as some awesome small mountain skiing!);
Salisbury Beach, Massachusetts, specifically the Black Rock Jetty where the Merrimack River meets the Atlantic Ocean;
Blackwater River State Park, north of Munson, Florida. There is a stilness there that defies logic, reason and civilization, but is as primal as any place I've ever been;
El Younque, the rain forest mountain on Puerto Rico. Life has it's own test beds, and this tiny version of the Amazon is probably one of them;
My old tree fort in Jacksonville, Florida. YOu never outgrow your first tree fort. I hope the new inhabitants have as much respect for it's freedom and imagination as I did when I took it over;
The arms of a friend, especially when you feel your own world collapsing. No place is as comforting as knowing that no matter what it is you feel, you aren't alone while you feel it.
Okay, I done did the drippy, sentimental one......NEXT!
It's not the wolf you see you should fear, but all the ones he howls with. Don't be afraid of the song, but don't piss off the choir.
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Oh man, that's awesome! Face the Storm, Timmy! Face it and chase it from the sky!
It's not the wolf you see you should fear, but all the ones he howls with. Don't be afraid of the song, but don't piss off the choir.
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A pie iron....humm....you put one piece of buttered bread on each side of the 'iron' on one side you can put pie filling/cheese/meat/veggies/....or a combo of items. you close the irons by the long handles that are attached to the square iron plates that the bread and goodies is put on. then you hold it over a fire and check it every once and a while until it is toasted to satisfaction! They are yummy kinda like grilled chesse but with more options and they are better!
Ducky
PS: I just found out that my great uncle Ira invented the round pie iron! COOLS!
"To the world you may be but one person, but to one person you may be the world!"
"Some people love you and some hate you.. those who hate don't know what they're missing and they're missing out!"
"Never underestimate your power to change yo
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OOOHHHH I have a pie iron !!! they are super duper cool can make a nice pizza with them. Works by putin it on hot coals yummy....
~Andy
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