This is absolutely brilliant she2 you've toppled yourself.

Hands reaching out~

I now know that on BOG, I have not just one but many many friends who share my support for and appreciation of our President. With him, we are indeed in safe hands.

Love Carole's song BTW!

Cheers and hugs back to you.

We need each other right now.

Carole King sang that in Boston, after the Marathon. She was there when we needed her the most.

Friends forever~

We are hanging together.

As for what's happening, wouldn't it be lovely to see the GOP leave town so President Obama can call Congress back into session; then when they don't show up in 5 minutes, we'll have an unopposed quorum. Of course I can't predict what he will do, but I know it will be spectacular. Well worth the wait.

I know I needed this tonight. I expect others do to.

eyes. but tears of hope and inspiration!

To our Friends in the BOG and everywhere~

Yes, it's good to know you got a Friend! Just what we needed, she Mahalo~

It really has to be one of the most beautiful renditions of the song. Inspiring!

To all of us and yes those everywhere that are in pain.

Hold on~



Cha

go back there

It's been a wild ride and I shudder to think what it would have been like and be right now without friends to hold onto in and out of the BOG, she

sheshe Lots of and lots of and through it all We've had these guys cheering us on..



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As we have been for them..

it is wonderful to come here and acknowledge and celebrate the good here with you all.

this song has been in the forefront for me personally - of late. it is the song my family - especially my mom - know me for because i sang it a whole lot in the early 70's and would play it on the family stereo when i came home on the weekends from college.

my mom is in the latter, latter stage of alzheimer's. less than 90 lbs, unable to speak or move her limbs. any day now. one of her last phone calls to me a few years ago before the steep downhill of her decline, she called me to say she had found my old album and was playing it (i could hear it in the background) and she was thinking of me. so sweet.

these are trying times on so many levels - one can only imagine how challenging it is for so many across our country - from many walks of life, the poor, unemployed, disabled, the sick, our vets, our young people trying to move forward in life, food pantry organizers, soup kitchen volunteers who see they do not have enough, all of our leaders, etc., all creatures great and small, and for our potus and his wife and family.

My hand in yours for support.

Alzheimer's is an incredibly sad disease. My dad is not as bad as your mom, yet he suffers from that and dementia. He is 91. It pains me to go to the nursing home, I leave and am so sad at the suffering. Our parents have become our children when we wipe their nose or their mouth when they eat.

The music, hopemountain, it does help us get through. I am so very glad that your mom loved it too.

Hugs, sheshe.

i appreciate your support.

So good to have you back. I missed you.

Together as one.

Nice to be back with DU where the crazees have united us!

so you will always know where to find someone.

My very best to you. I know to a degree what you're going through, because for years I cared for hospice patients, many of whom were so affected. One taught me a very important lesson; she was absolutely inconsolable until I bought a life-size baby doll and placed it in her arms. After that she calmed right down. All her long life she'd cared for children, and she still needed that connection. Since then of course I've learned that's a fairly common way to help female patients. But there might still be a lot of people unaware of that method, and so I'd like to pass it along here.

One of the things that still pains me is the memory of a male patient who could walk with a little guidance, but I'd been warned that when he returned to bedside, his knees would buckle so I'd better be ready to stop him from falling to the floor. He almost fought me every time. Then one night he found his voice: "I want to say my prayers!" he shouted. Well, after that I always found a way to lift him back up off the floor. But the thought that for months I'd stood between him and such a dearly held tradition haunts me a little even now.

thanks she she! I like hearing that song - both Carole King and James Taylor. I didn't know who wrote it. I'm glad it was the lady!

a haven for the reasonable and sane. That is what the BOG is for me.
Thank you for being here my new, dear friends.

BOG DU

I've got a smile on my face today.

We did! Our amazing President did, he kept us safe.

With the strong unity and fighting spirit of our Reps and Senators, we did it. I am so very proud of our Democratic party!

Thanks Cha~