You (names within) helped me a lot today.

[bertha katzenengel]

I needed reassurance and like most people who've been through years of therapy, I reached out for it shamelessly.

So thank you to
ET Awful
crispini
Misunderestimator
JimmyJazz
sundog
demnan
tjwmason
livetohike
Taxloss
Jessica
RagingInMiami
bearfan454
LynneSin
Thank you all very much. :yourock:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3116447

PS Special thanks to Misunderestimator for her insight.

[ET Awful]

1. You're very, very welcome.

And just to show how much we love you around here, I present you with this duck:



Why a duck? Why not a duck? I just thought she was a very cute duck and she looks like she's smiling :)

[bertha katzenengel]

2. She's a beautiful lady mallard! We see them daily at the pond

near our house on the drive home. I LOVE ducks.

GOD what a beautiful bird! Thank you!

[ET Awful]

3. You're welcome again :)

She was talking to me as I was strolling around in Concord yesterday. She was trying to get my attention while I was taking this picture:



:)

[Goathead]

6. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Is a good book. Have you read it?

[bertha katzenengel]

7. Goathead, who is the woman in your sig line?

Kinda looks like a young Emma Goldman.

[Goathead]

13. Emma Goldman it is!

Damn, I forgot to mention that you are smart as hell.:hi:

[bertha katzenengel]

14. Thank you for the compliment, but I must confess that the first time I'd

ever heard of Emma Goldman was when I saw the musical, "Ragtime." I read up on her thereafter.

And seeing that musical is when I know I'd missed yet another of my callings. I should've been a chorus girl at least, or even a featured performer, if not a star. Sigh. I hope someday to find a community production of "Ragtime" and sing the role of Goldman.

[Goathead]

16. You should read "The Devil in the White City"

I haven't read it yet, but it deals with these murders during the Columbian Expo in Chicago in 1893. My sister read it and told me about it. Same group, kind of, that was in Ragtime. Though I think Ragtime deals with the murder of Stanford White.

[bertha katzenengel]

17. Ragtime touches only briefly on White's murder.

It's interwoven with fact and fiction, and White is one of the people in the book who truly existed, along with Evelyn Nesbit, Harry K. Thaw, Goldman, J.P. Morgan, Henry Ford, and Booker T. Washington. I never saw the movie; I read the book only years after seeing the musical.

I will check out The Devil in the White City. Thank you.

Have you ever read Upton Sinclair's The Jungle? It too deals with the oppression of the worker and communist uprising, but it's far more depressing than one could imagine a book to be.

[bertha katzenengel]

10. gack

ET, please tell me you had to drive to get to that amazing place. Please tell me that's not where you live, because I don't want to be jealous of my friends....

[ET Awful]

11. It's about 15-20 minutes from my apartment.

That's actually at the North Bridge in Concord, just south/southeast of the bridge.

(Yeah, the same bridge where the Battle of Lexington and Concord started).

[sundog]

4. and I present you with this beautiful photo

[bertha katzenengel]

8. Oh, sundog!

It's breathtaking! Thank you!

[livetohike]

5. You are welcome and here is a picture

of some beautiful wildflowers I saw on my hike yesterday:

[bertha katzenengel]

9. Sigh.

There are about 780,000 reasons in that picture why I want to get in shape & get my health back. I want to be out there, too! Sierra Club member, but only at heart.

Thank you, livetohike.

[crispini]

12. aww....

here's a hug. :hug:

[bertha katzenengel]

15. More thanks below:

to

MrScorpio
Goathead
Progmom

No one should be ashamed to reach out for reassurance. It works. Thank you all.