Re: second part Re: misc and parents, etc...
  By: Nancy Backus to Damon A. Getsman on Sat Jun 27 2015 18:24:32

 NB> I doubt any of us would become the Buddha... but learning how to manage
 NB> the insecurities is probably useful enough... :)

  Well doubting it may be the most prodent course of action, but as an aspiring
Buddhist I'm gonna go for the whole 9 yards here.  ;)

 NB> Progress continues, though slowly...  She always has been slow at
 NB> bouncing back, anyway...  Now we just have to figure out how we are
 NB> going to manage her care when we go camping as an extended family...
 NB> some will be in tents, some in cabins, so at least we aren't going to
 NB> have to worry about how to deal with her in a tent...   But there are
 NB> a few other logistics still to work out... :)

  Things slow as we get older, too.  Not a whole much that can be done about
that except keeping the factors ideal that really matter.  Definitely sounds
like a good idea to keep her in one of the more plush areas.

 DAG>> find meaningful myself.  Those media seem to be the equivalent of
 DAG>> background static to me these days.  I find more and more that I'm
 NB> From what I've seen, there's not a lot of meaningful content... even
 NB> when meaningful things are being shared... 

  Very true.  Except when something like Ferguson pops up.  Then you've got a
horde of people that are managing to do a really good job of getting the
stories out that the mass media are ignoring, or at least doing their best to
be distracted from.  Some of that stuff I really value.  But the everyday
content that used to be so nice and shiny to me a few years back...  It's just
rough, tarnished sand to me now.  I don't know what to do with it, and I don't
really have enough interest to care.  I'm much more interested in meeting IRL
people, and not having to wade through a ton of memes and other foolish crap
before I get there.

 DAG>> my 'cantankerous a-hole' quota of the day with just a couple of
 DAG>> keystrokes, too.  ;)
 NB> As long as you do it in the appropriate echoes...  ;)

  Oh well I've gotten into the fray before, but I try not to do anything like
that any more.  I say my 'cantankerous a-hole' quota of the day because for
some reason really cranky folks put a smile on my face sometimes, as long as I
have a little bit of room to get away from them.  So at this phase in my life
it's really more of just watching someone else chuck the hornet's nest around,
rather than doing it myself.

 NB> You might be just a bit cynical there... but I've seen the same thing,
 NB> actually...  :)  It's still possible to meet one's neighbors in person,
 NB> but it takes more effort, and people aren't nearly so much in evidence
 NB> as one walks down the street anymore, either... 

  Social media has done a lot of wonderful things, especially making it easier
to stay in touch with relatives and the like.  At the same time, it's made it
easier to 'think' that you're in all the communication with them that matters,
when really a few words on a keyboard don't have an ounce on spending a few
hours with someone in person.  We're losing the art of conversation with some
people that've been too isolated in these environments, and I think isolation
as a whole is definitely up on the rise, at least in the more developed
countries, because all they need is their facebook now.

  Sorry, it's been a busy and stressful few weeks.  I know I've still got a
horde more than I'm waiting on replying to.  Hopefully I can get to them soon
here.

  -D
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