tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412664097092297899.post179228150795679832..comments2023-10-10T04:37:28.835-07:00Comments on the b in subtle: Force of Habitatnancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11413772615235003332noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412664097092297899.post-58809985579260121982010-02-03T15:29:44.830-08:002010-02-03T15:29:44.830-08:00thanks Anna. it is sooo great to connect with you,...thanks Anna. it is sooo great to connect with you, another artistic, nature-loving soul across the ocean. your son is the perfect age to do a habitat trip with you if that's what you're looking at- you're right - he will move on with his own life soon, but i'm sure you might consider holidaying together doing work-vacations or volunteering in some way down the road. i hope to with my little one (though i will be 60 when he is 18 so i hope i'll still have the get-up-and-go to do a work vacation). so happy we found each other! you will get through this. it was very liberating for me. my 30s were terribly depressing and leaving him and moving on was the best decision i could have made. i'm on a much happier track now. xonancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11413772615235003332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412664097092297899.post-30425170351495725712010-02-03T15:03:05.365-08:002010-02-03T15:03:05.365-08:00When I first read this I got tears in my eyes and ...When I first read this I got tears in my eyes and then put this in my bookmarks. Now I´ve come back to it a couple of times and there are thoughts and ideas evolving..<br /><br />I really appreciate what you wrote about breaking up. Mine too was a common law-marriage, of seven years (and I was married-married for seven years as well over ten years ago)and going our separate ways after all these years is bloody hard! Still, I feel good and liberated because now I share my life with my son alone and our bond is unbreakable. He´s very much into the same things as me, for now at least, like animals, nature, reading, cooking, watching movies and getting excited about music!<br /><br />I promised my son years ago that we will go to Africa together one day. I won´t be just a safari or a holiday, it will involve work of some kind and this story of yours gives me inspiration and ideas for it. He is now seventeen and will not stay with me forever, but I know we are so close and love each other´s company so much, we can travel and do things always, when he is older too.<br /><br />My idea now is to go to Ireland or Scotland and volunteer in one of the wildlife farms in a couple of years time. My son will love it!<br /><br />Thank you for sharing this and also for communicating through Flickr. I feel you are the kind of person I would love to know and talk to.<br /><br />Big kiss to your beautiful boy!minhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17046840426267234261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412664097092297899.post-61569859772439745112010-01-13T18:19:21.137-08:002010-01-13T18:19:21.137-08:00Alane - i love that you're so verbose (and qui...Alane - i love that you're so verbose (and quite elegant at it) - it makes me feel less bad for being so myself! ;) thanks for your beautiful comments all over my blog. much appreciated.nancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11413772615235003332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412664097092297899.post-70691524461368545062010-01-12T09:51:50.806-08:002010-01-12T09:51:50.806-08:00Hello, hello! One of my pet causes, and a fantasti...Hello, hello! One of my pet causes, and a fantastic organization. I've only done volunteer work here in my state, but Habitat does great work in many areas of the world. <br /><br />Jimmy Carter was easily the best man who ever held the office of President in the U.S. and he was quite the visionary. He wasn't our greatest President here (depending on who is doing the judging) but what a stellar human being. <br /><br />He's the sort of person who makes it possible to be proud of being human, isn't he? And we don't get to feel that often enough. <br /><br />You did a wonderful thing, and found as much as you gave, which is a big, big part of volunteering. <br /><br />It's hard when relationships end, but sometimes the participants have been watching the death throes for long enough that when it is over, it is over. It isn't sorrow so much as...it's done. That feeling of sadness isn't so crushing because the process was completed. <br /><br />Now, I love a good TV program, so in that we differ. I know people who write for, and about TV, so I'm not giving it up...but I do love that you decided, and then did. <br /><br />It's easy to decide to do something, but you followed through. Sounds like you're prone to that :-) <br /><br />It is a trait people I truly admire share, and I hope I possess. I try to possess it, and live it. <br /><br />Babble, babble, all I'm really saying was that this was a wonderful read, and inspired a lot of enthusiasm for the subject in me. Thank you for that. What a lovely thing to encounter, shared exuberance :-)Land of shimphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671954452597068904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412664097092297899.post-86116123003364389142010-01-11T18:29:55.293-08:002010-01-11T18:29:55.293-08:00Wow. Sparx, thank you so kindly. And you, as well,...Wow. Sparx, thank you so kindly. And you, as well, Michael. What goes around...comes around... ;)nancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11413772615235003332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412664097092297899.post-89417427612025612082010-01-09T18:57:41.602-08:002010-01-09T18:57:41.602-08:00That sounded like an extremely cool experience. An...That sounded like an extremely cool experience. And now bubbles up in me that long laid desire to join the Peace Corps that has hounded me from birth! Very cool, Nancy. Very cool indeed. Big Grin.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10946545423048422790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412664097092297899.post-51038190229374356032010-01-09T15:51:43.083-08:002010-01-09T15:51:43.083-08:00I wish I'd known about that when I had the urg...I wish I'd known about that when I had the urge - I was told several times that volunteer organisations only want people with special skills as they are inundated with requests for volunteers... sounds like a wonderful time.<br /><br />I've left you a photo meme at mine if you'd like to do it. You don't have to but I do love your photographs.Sparxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04075991922896922279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412664097092297899.post-74306212196351008802010-01-09T14:26:04.869-08:002010-01-09T14:26:04.869-08:00that's awesome, Brian. isn't it an amazing...that's awesome, Brian. isn't it an amazing experience? i worked on a women-only build a few years ago, about three hours drive from where i am now. it was fabulous as well, but really amazing to do it in another part of the globe. there's nothing like it. the change definitely outweighs the work. but it's like my mantra: what goes around comes out and the good that you do in the world does come back to you tenfold.nancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11413772615235003332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412664097092297899.post-27213491586675914712010-01-09T13:42:43.485-08:002010-01-09T13:42:43.485-08:00what a cool experience...we have taken trips mostl...what a cool experience...we have taken trips mostly in the states...built houses...cleaned lots and built parks...and worked on a few HFH houses as well...and the chnage you experience in your own life far outweighs the work you actually accomplish it seems. i want the same for my sons, to see that it is more than just about them. we involve them in serving on a regular basis, they love it, and one day they will get it...Brian Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722940075884718007noreply@blogger.com