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A purring Boo.

Waking up with my cats next to me and now my morning coffee

an eighty year old extended family member was the victim of a hit and run driver while passing through a crosswalk recently. he was thrown about twenty feet breaking his leg and cheek... miraculously, that is the full extent of the physical damage.

also... noticed a favorite little hole in the wall mexican food restaurant is still in business, and within reasonable walking distance, while out earlier.

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^^ holy crap. I'm glad it wasn't worse, sorry it happened at all... the family will need to keep an eye on him, Lace-Bane, he's at the age where complications crop up.

Glad for you about the restaurant. Long may it thrive.

A morning walk in the woods and found a great fruiting of oyster mushroom. Yummy!

@kuraudo7777, @cecilfienkelstein:

all you need is cats
all you need is cats
all you need is cats, cats
cats are all you need

thank you. have a grandfather turning ninety soon who broke his hip falling a few feet a couple years ago... so, getting hit and flying twenty with minimal injuries is inconceivable. heard he had work on the neck region of his spine recently, so it was a fear that there could be spinal trauma since he landed upon his cheek... thankfully, that isn’t a problem.

it’s a large family, so there’s sure to be help and watch on his recovery(he’s out of state). just hoping that nothing else arises, and that he or/and his wife don’t become traumatized.

The house to myself

Same! Haha.

Sorry to hear about your grandpa Lace-Bane. Hope he recovers with ease.

Grandpa separate and the elderly family member’s recovery separate. Sorry my phone was not letting me edit

cool!

This post made me happy!

^^ I'm glad. Catlove is a good thing (critterlove in general is ) and it's *even better* when it's shared

WP made me happy. Last night, but I didn't post about it. And on many other occasions too.

I know we're all people, so we sometimes disagree, we sometimes annoy each other, sometimes misunderstand. But we're people. We're a bunch of human beings sitting together online, and we can talk instantly over hours and thousands of miles of travel distance.

It feels like a "common room" here, like a comfortable lounge. There are "nooks" where people can sit and talk or play math/language/online games or share their art or authorship or music. There are lively discussions that people can just sit and "listen" to, learning about other points of view, or "nod encouragement" in, or jump in and join with both hands and a shovel.

I have been more at ease and more fully myself on this forum that I've been able to be in many real life settings for a long time, because the Aspie thing doesn't get in the way - I have not felt that the first response from anyone is "oh, you're *different*" (even though we vary widely here!) [Another perennial favorite: "you think too much/all the time!" as if thought were intrinsically bad.]

And I've seen more decency and more simple kindness here in three months than I've seen IRL in many years.

I've seen pain, too, and frustration, and loss, and people trying to love as best they can in the face of terrible obstacles. I wish to God that I had answers, solutions, help for it, but the amazing thing is that people here don't turn away from it - people move towards it, almost universally, to offer what comfort they can. Do you KNOW how incredible that is?

And no, I'm not idealizing. People are people and do people things, good and bad, we mess up, we move on as best we can. But I've seen a lot of good here. Maybe reading this will comfort or uplift someone else.

Warm wishes to all.

[Edit in: oh, holy crap, this is Callahan's Crosstime Saloon. Spider Robinson would be proud as hell, and I *think* he's on the spectrum, so he'd be even prouder.]

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Those are lovely. You're cordially invited to post them also in the Mushroom Appreciation Thread:

viewtopic.php?t=337819

("Mushroom" is there taken broadly to include cool things like lichens, slime molds, etc.)

Aww, kitties! I used to have a black one like in the picture, she was so sweet

[EDIT: Beautifully said, Esme. I particularly agree with the 'you think too much' comment... Grateful to have a place where it's okay to have a brain that refuses to stop, ever.]

[EDIT #2: Good lord, I'm so slow at posting I've been beaten twice now! Nice mushrooms though! Haha]