Merry Christmas!

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Bill Marsh

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To Forumites all over the world and let us remember and give thanks for the great Gift and Good News.

Blessings to all

Bill and Anne Marsh
Atlanta GA
 
Yes . Merry Xmas . and Thank you to all for help and advise for a new kid on the block. Cheers Rod
 
Merry Christmas all and thanks for a great year Uncle Bill.

Regards and blessings
Brendan
 
To all of HI and the forum. Have a safe one. We don't want to be missing any forumites or mambers of HI when the Xmas week is over.
God Bless you all.:)
 
Enjoy if you can.

If you feel down, you aren't the only one. A lot of the merrymakers are just putting on a face for the outside world.

This is the darkest time of the year. Literally. That can lead to SAD - Seasonal Affective Disorder. It's for real. Look it up.

Families getting together put stress on you. Studies have shown that even good changes create stress. Too much stress makes you sick.

Not being with family can stress you.

If you have emotional problems bugging you, talk to someone about it. Just knowing someone else ( one heck of a lot as a matter of fact ) has similar feelings makes it easier to handle.

Suicide is most often a permanent solution to a temporary problem. It may end your pain but often devastates others you don't want to see hurt.

Christmas is a bitch for some people. It brings up memories, and it's a time to measure progress. For some people, they did everything right, and took it in the shorts anyway. Your company "downsized".

Besides, whomever said that everything and everyone was beautiful must have been smoking something besides tobacco.

Aunt Maude may be a witch, and everyone knows it. Uncle Pete should never have been paroled. And mothers lay guilt trips on children every day.

So turn on the phone answering machine, miss the problems everyone wants to get you mixed up in, and take care of yourself.

I don't know why I got off on this tangent, cause I'm not having a bad time this year. But I have had them in years past. Just my suicide prevention/crisis line training maybe.

Anyway, don't expect too much and if things go better than you thought, enjoy.
 
I think you're dead on, Rusty. For many this is the toughest time of the year to get thru. I've been thru it myself a few times.

I stay in touch with a few guys living on the edge and I try to keep them from falling over. One of my worst cases is an old 1LT Ranger who lost so many of his men in Nam he couldn't handle it. And he's lived with this day and night (dreams about it) for almost 40 years. Good officer (he cared for his men above all else), good man, good human, bright, educated, big, strong, tough -- and he's barely hanging on. I may have to call him. His emails are pretty black the past couple of weeks -- biggest complaint right now is commercialism of Christmas.

What do I tell him?
 
And a Happy Winter Solstice to everyone!!!!
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and to you! Its funny you should mention that--my daughter was watching her favorite cartoon the other day (Little Bear) and he must have been saying that because she was yelling that to everyone she saw that whole day:D

Rusty: Great advice and you're a great guy for posting that to help people out--you could have saved a life--or many.

Merry Christmas everyone!

I appreciate you guys, and I appreciate having this place to come to and have some fun:)

What do I tell him?
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:( I wish I knew Uncle Bill, I really do. Nothing I can think of that I'm sure you wouldn't already say. You can tell him that there's alot of guys like me that are Damn proud of him for what he did and for the horrible losses he suffered for the rest of us, and that the world would be much worse off without guys like him. And that if someone as tough as him throws in the towel, it makes it that much easier for normal people to give up. I don't know...that's all I've got.
 
Night before last I talked to someone who on top of everything else, blew a little girl away to keep her from carrying a bomb into their midst during Vietnam.

It was what he should have done, but he's never gotten over it.

They finally got him on a sleeping pill and he doesn't dream about it ( or at least remember it the next morning ).

He'll never forget doing it but he's living a life these days.

And he's ok on the right medications- but Christmas and kid's gifts under the tree remind him of that girl he blew away. It'll pass in a week or so untill next year and he knows it. It's just kinda tough during the Xmas season.
 
Can't let this end on such a somber note, so here goes:

"May you live the coming year by claiming each new day as Christmas. For in living it, you make it so."

Blessings to each and every one of you.
 
Thank you, Rusty for your good as good, true as true as always words. Merry Christmas.




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One of the best things about Christmas is people take a little time to think about some of the good things in life . . . like having heat, or a jacket, or waking up to see another sunrise after the longest night of the year.

I'm thankful for having everything I need, and being spared some of the demons or needs that others must bear. I'm also thankful for being able to see the best of humanity played out in a little corner of the Internet every single day.

Thanks, Uncle Bill and fellow forumites! Merry Christmas/Hannakah/Kwanza/Winter Solstice/Today!
 
Not a lot of people at work today so I was digging in the archives...

"How about a "good vibes" khukuri, focused towards the new-age market. When worn on the waist it is guaranteed to give of powerful vibrations that discourage muggings, assaults, etc"
Howard Wallace
 
"How about a "good vibes" khukuri, focused towards the new-age market. When worn on the waist it is guaranteed to give of powerful vibrations that discourage muggings, assaults, etc"
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:D:D Sounds good, but instead of Rusty's Kama Sutra Choji oil, you'd have to use Patchouli:D

I wouldn't want to be the one to tell the sarkis that they have to WEAVE a scabbard out of Hemp though!!:eek: :D
 
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