Lost cities, richard_simmons, enraptured and beatnickside all went byebye…. anyone know why?
rememver, to delete someone – check your console, in case you don’t want them undeleting and reading your friends only posts. see kruss’s excellent mention of how to here/
Make sure you read all the way down to the last sentence. There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His Father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back
of the fence. The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold
his temper than to drive those nails into the fence….
Finally the day came when the boy didn’t lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone. The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, “You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and take it out. It won’t matter how many times you say I’m sorry, the wound is still there. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one. Friends are very rare jewels, indeed. They make you smile and encourage you succeed. They lend an ear, they share words of praise and they always want to open their hearts to us.
“It’s National Friendship Week. Show your friends how much you care. Send this to everyone you consider a FRIEND, even if it means sending it back to the person who sent it to you. If it comes back to you, then you’ll know you have a circle of friends.
HAPPY FRIENDSHIP WEEK TO YOU!!
YOU ARE MY FRIEND AND I AM HONORED!!
Now send this to every friend you have!! And to your family.
Please forgive me if I have ever left a hole in you.
some folks I talked to fairly frequently last month have kind of all but blown me off. It saddens me, as I’m a nice guy. Folks get caught up in other situations, though, I guess. One’s an LJer, two are folks that have moved out of state, and one that left where I work currently.
I’m happy that there are other folks that are around for me to talk to, both on LJ, and in real life. The really irritating thing is, I call and e-mail, and get no reply. that’s just rude. If you don’t want to talk to me, tell me, don’t have me glean it from holding one-sided conversations.
This has been a public service announcement. Treat people with honesty and courtesy.
That’s all
The last free-roaming panthers in North America can be found in south
Florida’s Everglades. These beautiful, tawny beasts are the Florida
panthers, of which only 30-50 remain in the wild.
Because Florida panthers require unspoiled territories that are many
miles across, the continuing human development of the Everglades and
Big Cypress wetlands has dramatically reduced their numbers.
Recently, study programs have been locating and tracking the animals,
and large tracts of land have been added to the protected parklands
in an effort to help preserve their home ranges.
Between wetlands restoration, panther tracking and study, and captive
breeding programs, it might be possible to rescue the Florida
panthers from extinction. As top predators in the South Florida
ecosystem, the panthers’ numbers reflect the success or failure of
the entire Everglades restoration effort.
More about the endangered Florida panthers:
http://mapping.usgs.gov/mac/isb/pubs/booklets/scientists/panthers.html
http://www.nps.gov/ever/current/panther2.htm
The vast, expensive, difficult Everglades restoration effort:
http://features.LearningKingdom.com/fact/archive/1999/08/19.html