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Subject: BS: Brief great experiences From: MGM·Lion Date: 27 Nov 10 - 02:10 AM Brief but wonderfully memorable experiences. The sort that don't happen every day. Have you any? To show the sort I'm looking for, here's mine:~ My first wife Valerie & I were doing a brief motor tour of Scotland. A sign outside Loch Lomond Safari Park said 'Siberian tigers'. Beautiful creatures, tigers. We motored past various animals, Valerie driving, I on near-side in passenger seat. Eventually, a group of the magnificent 15-ft beasts lay about under a tree. Valerie pulled up opposite for a closer look, and from habit, tho advice always not to, switched off the engine. After a few moments, one of them looked up, saw us there, & ambled over to have a look at us. The huge head entirely filled the window of our Mini; so that Tiger & I eyeballed one another at a distance of maybe 8-12" for, I should estimate, a whole minute or so. Then Tiger got bored with the look of me, turned round, and ambled back to resume his recumbent position among his companions {I write 'his' but of course had no means of determining Tiger's sex!}. I then appreciated why they enjoin visitors to keep car windows tightly closed. Just suppose Tiger had got scent, & not just sight, of us? But as we drove on, I realised that I had felt not one second of fear or nervousness or apprehension; but that those moments of close communion with this wonderful creature were among the most amazing, enjoyable & memorable things that had ever happened to me. Who has a similar sort of experience to relate? ~Michael~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: GUEST,Jon Date: 27 Nov 10 - 03:38 AM Probably the briefest and weirdest experiences I have had were ! once and only once when a vicar came down and prayed for God's spirit to touch me, I suddenly felt engulfed by some great loving power giving me a hug and I broke down into tears. I'd guess there are many possible explanations but it was weird.... Another one would b driving under a rainbow coming back with ~Pip from Sheffield once. Again it was weird... but this one can be witnessed by a second person so it was not just my thoughts" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: GUEST,Jon Date: 27 Nov 10 - 03:43 AM Oh on more physical things - maybe at the time I was involved with Jayne. She slammed the car brakes on and a whole herd of deer came bounding over one (Denbighshire) hedge across the small country lane and over the next one. It was quite a marvellous sight. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: 3refs Date: 27 Nov 10 - 03:52 AM The 70's! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: Georgiansilver Date: 27 Nov 10 - 06:06 AM I was that tiger!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: GUEST,Shimrod Date: 27 Nov 10 - 07:56 AM I once had a two week holiday on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria. One day I hired a car and drove up into the Strandzha Mountains which form the border between Bulgaria and Turkey. These mountains are thickly forested and sparsely populated. Being a keen amateur botanist my aim was to look for interesting plants. After driving for about an hour I came to a T-junction with a Hornbeam thicket in one corner. My botanist's instinct told me that this looked promising. The day was boiling hot so I parked the car in the shade of a tree and walked into the thicket (which looked as though it had been extensively grazed by cattle). At that time (early 1990s) there was little traffic in that part of the world and sounds carried a long way in the still, hot air - I could hear people talking to each other an indeterminate distance away. At some point I saw, through a gap in the trees, a small boy driving a small herd of cattle along the road. He was calling to them in a shrill voice and flicking their rumps with a long switch. In the midst of the thicket were several plants of the huge scarlet Peony, Peonia peregrina. These looked almost unreal in such a wild spot. Later I learned that English Jacobean gardeners had called this plant 'The Scarlet Peony of Constantinople' - and I had found it just a few yards from the ancient road to Constantinople (modern Istanbul, of course). This is a treasured memory - a day of pure magic! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: MGM·Lion Date: 27 Nov 10 - 10:44 AM "I was that tiger!!!" ···· GS ~ No you were NOT. I told you he was Siberian, not Georgian. Why can't you listen! ~M~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: MGM·Lion Date: 27 Nov 10 - 11:15 AM Another of mine ~~ less wonderful, than memorable for being sort of odd ~ anomalous... My wife and I were in China in April 1989 {not that long before Tienanmen, by when I had come home but she was caught right up in it}, on the faculty of Beijing Language University: she as English Language Senior Lecturer on a year's contract, I as British Council Lecturer in English Folksong for a term. We had gone south for a week as guest lecturers in the Guangxi Normal University in Guilin, which at the time boasted {& I mean boasted!} what they claimed to be the most up-to-date computer centre in China; of which we were of course given a tour. It was back before microchip miniaturisation brought us the home computer & the laptop. What we had was one of those huge rooms full of winking linked screens. It was in the corner of the block, & the University was right on the edge of town overlooking open country. I looked out of a window of this enormous ultimate-in-hi-tec room to an adjacent field. Twenty yards away from me, a barefoot peasant was laboriously following a wooden ox-drawn plough... True. ~Michael~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: wysiwyg Date: 27 Nov 10 - 11:55 AM Brief but wonderfully memorable experiences. The sort that don't happen every day. Have you any? THANK YOU! As a matter of fact, a workshop-prep assignment requires me to list a bunch. Think I'll do it here.... [opening doc]... The assignment: A Good Experience is something that you did, that you thought was done well (without regard to the opinions of others), and about which you had good feelings. Good Experiences can happen anywhere. They can occur with others or when you are alone. Think back on the time periods of your life, and describe the things that made you feel good about yourself. This may take some time and effort. The process of thinking is as important as the stories that result! Use the outline below to begin the process of remembering and retelling your Good Experiences. 1. Think back to childhood and early adolescence, and remember something you did, organized, or experienced that made you feel proud of yourself. Describe it briefly with just a few key words:
2. Move forward in time, and recall another Good Experience. Write down just a few words to remind yourself of the experience:
3. Now, pick a Good Experience that has occurred more recently, within the last three to five years. Jot down some words and phrases to remind yourself of this experience:
4. Think of a Good Experience that is happening now, or has recently happened in your life. Write down some characteristics of this experience to help you if you want to tell a story about it later.
Note: The purpose of this exercise is to help you begin the thinking process. This sheet is for your own use. Reflect for a moment on what you have remembered. Do you notice any patterns, or is anything suggested to you? What are your feelings about these events? Section A: Remembering the Good Experiences PART II (Expanding Your List of Experiences) In Part I, you began the process of remembering those meaningful experiences in your life in which you were an active participant. Continue that process now by listing 15-20 Good Experiences, including the four from Part I. Give yourself some time to think about this...it is a life review. You may want to work on this list for a while, take a break, and then come back to it later. You may be surprised by what you remember as you add to your list! .... Later. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: Micca Date: 27 Nov 10 - 12:26 PM We were on our way to the Isle of Skye for a walking and climbing trip in my friends Saaab that had an excellent sound system, as we came up a long slope This Vista opened up before us, but under more Lowering skies and Right on cue This music hit the 4.15 point on the track, absolutely stunning!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: kendall Date: 27 Nov 10 - 12:36 PM While visiting Glen Coe I suddenly realized that I was standing on the hill where the bonfire was lit to signal the Campbells to slaughter the MacDonalds. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: GUEST,Jon Date: 27 Nov 10 - 12:48 PM Thought it would have been this Micca |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: VirginiaTam Date: 27 Nov 10 - 12:54 PM This morning, holding and playing with TheSilentOne's hand the way I did when we first met face to face July 2001. It was a shivery moment. A few weeks after my daughter's passing I was waking and dreaming at the same time, that she came to me standing on the opposite side of a tiny stream. She was grinning and all excited, telling me "Mom... I can finish my degree over here." I asked here where and tried to cross the stream to her. I woke, physically feeling her hand on my shoulder, resisting my cross over the water. It was bittersweet. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: GUEST,Jon Date: 27 Nov 10 - 01:09 PM VT, bitter-sweet... I've no experience but I can imagine.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: kendall Date: 27 Nov 10 - 02:42 PM VT that is a beautiful story. Road to the Isles...I've also heard.. if your thinking in your inner heart there's madness in me smile... Does anyone know the parody? ...ye take out your picnic basket cause the car has blown a gasket In the middle of a place called Rannoch Moor... So you're standing picking rasps being stung to death by wasps The midges and the klegs are making free And the bairns have ate the berries and contracted dysentery Cause last week they sprayed the crop with DDT... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: Georgiansilver Date: 27 Nov 10 - 02:54 PM The Corries... Scottish Holiday....... for Kendall |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: GUEST,Jon Date: 27 Nov 10 - 02:55 PM Yes Kendall, in the sense that Dave Baird used to sing it in th Gallion inn Rhos On Sea - an odd place a bikers bar mostly but the first place I heard folk out loud live in a pub. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: VirginiaTam Date: 27 Nov 10 - 03:10 PM ohhh I forgot the first and every subsequent time I saw Glen Coe... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: GUEST,Jon Date: 27 Nov 10 - 03:15 PM Oh and kendall, I did spend a night in one of the places mentioned in the parody, crianlarich. It was 1981 2 of us on the dole had decided to go on a motorbike to John O Groats and the weather turned foul. Couldn't even get our tent pegs in. Crossed what we later found out was a frozen bog before "camping" in a railway hut. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: GUEST,Jon Date: 27 Nov 10 - 03:29 PM I've only been to Scotland maybe 4 times VT but Glen Coe is magnificent. An excuse for another song too |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: Mrrzy Date: 27 Nov 10 - 03:47 PM OK, I'm in Hungary for my second summer, very late teens, learning Hungarian well enough that my sweetie for the month or so was actually Hungarian. Sweetie comes to visit me in Budapest, we spent an afternoon rambling (I am picked a flower) and then drops me off for the last time at my parents' hotel room. I go over to the window (we're on an upper floor) and manage to catch a last glimpse of Sweetie walking down the sidewalk below. I drop the flower; it falls perfectly, just where naturally bending over to pick it up didn't even require changing stride... one last long look, a kiss to the flower before its placement in the breast pocket, *sigh* - nothing that romantic has happened before or since. Marvy adieu indeed. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: Wesley S Date: 27 Nov 10 - 04:36 PM Back in 1976 we were up above the treeline in Washington state. At a senic overlook we noticed that as the air crossed over the ridge it turned into a cloud. As we turned around we saw our shadows on the cloud newly formed about 100 feet below us and our shadow was surrounded by a perfect halo of a rainbow. I took a photo but of course it doesn't do it justice. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: frogprince Date: 27 Nov 10 - 05:11 PM Arkansas, 1969; driving around one night in my 1960 LeSabre, with college friends. Someone directed me to Cabin Creek Public Access Area, a rec area on the Dardenelle reservoir. The night was pitch black, and there must just have been a major emergence of fireflies; the creekbed area was lit up with countless sparks. I've mentioned around here before that, a few years later, I encorporated the scene into one of the most beautiful dreams I've ever had. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: Bill D Date: 27 Nov 10 - 07:00 PM I was returning from a trip to California with friends, I was driving very early in the morning thru Arizona, while they dozed. This was desert country, but somehow there was fog..or mist...I don't know what to call it, just at sunrise.... and the 'landscape' was cactus...shadowy shapes with glittering 'something' like dew-drops on the thorns as the sun just barely allowed a hundred yards visibility on the highway.. (can you tell this is hard to describe?). For about 30-45 seconds this scene captivated me as I tried to drive and absorb it....then a change in the direction of the road, and a slightly different angle of sunlight in thinner mist...and it was just haze and cactus again. But for that short time it was a wonderland like nothing I ever saw. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: catspaw49 Date: 27 Nov 10 - 07:35 PM Its the late 60's and I'm at Berea College. About 10 Berea students including myself were working in an associate VISTA program tied to the Council of Southern Mountains. They were having a meeting at Fontana Dam and 6 of us went down. We arrived at about midnight, far too late to check in and decided we'd drive to Bryson City...I have no idea why. Arriving in Bryson City, nothing was open but a small diner where we were looked upon with some skepticism...but served. Having even more time on our hands, we drove up the other side of the mountain to Clingman's Dome. We parked in the empty lot at about 3 AM and listened to the springmelt run off the rocks all around us. We of course solved the problems of the world that night and about 4:30 AM, Andy and I got out the guitars and we all sang. We sang Woody, we sang Dylan, but when we picked a few Carter tunes and Broadsides, it struck me for the first time that not only did it sound wonderful out there, but this was where the music came from...in that fog cloaked valley, across that far ridge...it lived here. The isolation of the mountains had given a different flavor to the Scots-Irish roots of the original tunes and for me it was something special...both the music and the realization. After awhile we sat in silence and let the spring morning provide the music for us. Years passed, we went in different directions, and like in "Bob Dylan's Dream"......"each one of them, I have never seen again." Maybe you can only have that kind of good times when the world and its problems are new to you.......and you're positive that you know how to fix it. We certainly thought so. But then again, maybe you're only given a few moments in your life when things are clear and revealed........and as pure as the snowmelt high up in Smokies. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: Bill D Date: 27 Nov 10 - 07:50 PM OH! High in the mountains! Yes.... 1975, driving thru Colorado in August, we camped in a park at about 8000 ft, set up pup-tents on an absolutely clear, warm night. Lay back in sleeping bag, head almost out of tent.....when ZIP...metorite. Zip...zip...zippity-zip.. The Perseids!! Watched continuous meteoroids for half an hour.....awesome at that altitude. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: Ed T Date: 27 Nov 10 - 08:34 PM The first time I saw Canada's Rocky Mountains, I was in my early 20's. One autumn morning I drove from Calgary west and over a small hill there thew were in front of me, colourfull and tall against the flat prairie landscape. I got a natural head rush, and had to stop my car and look for a few minutes in awe. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 28 Nov 10 - 12:04 AM passenger in a car being driven along a dark country road - leaning on the window & looking at the stars in the Milky Way - wow! us inner city birds rarely see a single star. I could also see the Southern Cross (scroll down to second image) & due to some sort of optical illusion or because I was leaning on the window could see it in 3 dimensions - I can't remember now which star/s were further back, but it was a magical moment. Another moment of wonder was briefly being in the right place to see a gi-normous yellowy full moon sitting on the rocky point at the end of Bondi Beach, dwarfing the houses & small apartment blocks. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: JohnInKansas Date: 28 Nov 10 - 04:58 AM I can cite a moment quite similar to the first offering here. Some years back I decided to enjoy a weekend of fishing at the McPherson County State Lake about 70 miles north of Wichita. At the time I had a 16 ft green Starcraft aluminum outboard that I towed with my (green) 1970 VW Beetle. After a quiet few hours of fishing (Friday evening to about noon on Sunday) I started back home. I had come into the lake via the back road, but decided to "shortcut" out via the front road, which runs for a mile or so across the Maxwell Game Preserve that's home to a fairly decent herd of elk and a modest herd of Bison (Buffalo). Although both herds are fairly sizeable, I had never seen any of the critters in previous passes through the preserve, since there's a lot of cover - and a lot of ground - in the preserve. On this trip, however, there were about 15 or 20 Buffalo just off the road, and as I approached, what appeared to be the "head bull" decided to "investigate" the little green object on the road. As I proceeded down the road a little nearer the group, and as he proceeded across the prairie, he began gradually picking up speed. I sort of figured he knew the territory better than I did, and probably had a good idea, so I attempted to gain some speed. But with a 1400 lb bug pulling an 1100 lb boat and trailer on a "primitive" gravel road, picking up speed was sort of a "good thought" more than an actual accomplishment. My last clear view of the buffalo consisted of some chin whiskers dripping drool from his chin about 4 feet from - and well above the top of - the side window of the bug. I've wondered since whether the bull thought "it's green so maybe I can eat it," or if he was looking at the little green bug and thinking he might "hump it;" but the escape was accomplished, and I had a memorable look at a magnificent animal (from a little closer than I'd attempt to repeat). He trotted along behind for perhaps 80 yards, but decided I wasn't worth pursuing. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: GUEST,Jon Date: 28 Nov 10 - 05:24 AM Glad you got out of the way John. I've never seen and unliely ever to see a bison but I think people can too often get casual about some big creatures. Over here I think I've read a couple of reports including one getting killed just with cows and walking a dog. However gentle they may normally be, they are not to be messed with! Also I do know one farmer who got a bit to casual with a bull. It sounds like bull by doing little more than push from a few inches fractured that person's pelvis... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: JohnInKansas Date: 28 Nov 10 - 07:06 AM Jon - When I related the tale of the Bison Bull to some "friends" their comment was "bet ya smelt worse'n that buffalo by the time it was all over." My reply was "I always smell worse than a buffalo after I've been sittin' in a fishin' boat for 30 or 40 hours." Never got a reply to that one, so I guess maybe "tellin' the tale" could be another favorite moment ... among real friends. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: GUEST,Jon Date: 28 Nov 10 - 07:11 AM Om the smell John... an old joke What's the difference between a buffalo and a bison? A: You can't wash your hands in a bison. (basin) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: GUEST,Jon Date: 28 Nov 10 - 07:13 AM Sorry, you can, not can't.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: Micca Date: 28 Nov 10 - 09:59 AM Travelling through France by train from Calais to Portbou en route to Barcelona Just after dawn as we sped through the Rhone Valley and the Canmargue, on the lagoons of the Rhone, were Huge rafts of Flamingoes numbering thousands, like huge pink islands, an unphotographable sight but memorable. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: Rapparee Date: 28 Nov 10 - 10:10 AM Glacier National Park -- I was walking down a path when a clattering to my left caught my attention. A mountain goat was stamping his feet, warning me to stay back. If I'd get one step beyond a certain point it was clatter-clatter. Step back and he just looked at me. I backed away and never did get to where I wanted to go. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: Amos Date: 28 Nov 10 - 11:27 AM In a glider about 1000 feet above the Napa Valley, looking up as we climbed a thermal to sse a huge eagle climbing the same spiral one story above us. Another: approaching the south channel of Corfu in a blinding rainstorm at night on a stormy sea in a steam-powered trawler type boat, at a critical point we had to change course in the face of huge waves. I was nervous as hell about it, so I took the helm myself when the moment came and brought her round as we climbed the face of the next wave. We were on course by the time we crested the top, and the next one leaned us over just a bit, but nothing like the fearful toppling I had feared, and we all breathed a huge sigh of relief. There are no re-dos when you face high waves; they don't much care whether you win or lose. Now the subject has come up I have had a lot of these. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: GUEST,Patsy Date: 29 Nov 10 - 09:43 AM No great travels, having my babies was the greatest brief experiences at the time for me from the first butterfly flutters right until the stronger kicks towards the end. Men will never know how that feels. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: GUEST,Steamin' Willie Date: 29 Nov 10 - 12:06 PM I once managed to extend a length of bubbly gum out of my mouth, stretching it till the only limiting factor was the length of my arm. Sadly, nobody saw me do it, so I can't normally boast about it in case somebody didn't believe me. But it really did happen! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: Amos Date: 29 Nov 10 - 12:27 PM A nurse handed me my newborn, still damp from her birthing, and looking up with the most wide-eyed sincerity and calm. I was washed away in a wholly unexpected torrent of emotion--delight, exaltation, divine something or other, overwhelming. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: Ebbie Date: 29 Nov 10 - 01:47 PM My date had been dropped off at his midnight shift job and the driver, from Bandon by the Sea on the Oregon Coast dropped off his friend and since it was still early, we headed out for a drive in the hills above the Willamette Valley. Sitting in the car at a hilltop cemetery playing two harmonicas that he traveled with, dawn showed us fog rising from the valley below, obliterating the lower lengths of Douglas Fir trees, leaving the tops floating in the mist like the masts of ships at sea. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: Rapparee Date: 29 Nov 10 - 09:03 PM 2 a.m. on the Mississippi, late July, fishing off the dock with a friend, wisps of steam rising here and there off the Big River, no moon but a bucketful of stars thrown across the sky. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: LadyJean Date: 30 Nov 10 - 12:55 AM I was in the seventh grade at a girls' prep school. French was part of the curriculum, beginning in kindergarten. By seventh grade we were conjugating verbs, and all that other stuff. We were, in face expected to speak ONLY French in class. It was my birthday. I brought cupcakes to school. When the French teacher came in to review our conjugations again, I put a cupcake on her desk. She said "merci" and she would have it with her "dejuner". Then we went on to conjugate something, I'm sure. At some point during the lesson she sat down on the cupcake. As I said, we weren't supposed to speak English in class. Now, how often in a child's life does it happen that, doing what you're told means leaving the teacher sitting on a cupcake? Eventually somebody put her hand up and said, "Madame, assayez vous sur un cupcake." Which means sit down on a cupcake, but she got the idea, and the cupcake wasn't too badly squashed. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: BlueJay Date: 30 Nov 10 - 01:08 AM Caught a toddler! We had a fund-raising volleyball game when I was in nursing school, (yeah). I wasn't much of a player, and the ladies looked better, so I hung out on the sidelines. I heard yelling, and looking up, I saw a little kid swinging from the railing of the balcony fifteen feet above. I watched as he let go, directly above me. I didn't have to move, I didn't have time to think. I caught him in a perfect "cradle" position, and rolled from standing onto my back to further cushion the fall. The kid was 18 months old, and had wandered away from his parents. He was OK. I was stunned. The next day in school, I was presented with a baseball glove, and an award, (from the nursing dept), as the school's best catcher! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: Donuel Date: 30 Nov 10 - 05:00 AM beautiful scenes everyone Not as thrilling as an encounter with a great beast or magnificent lifeform, I have brief encounters with a play of light that other people seldom, if ever, speak about. When I was three I used to see what I called lightning people who moved so quickly I could not gesture quick enough to point them out to others. In fact adults were completly unable to see them at all. Like ribbons of light they would race upward from trees or bushes at great speed and rarely traveled along the ground. I would retreat indoors as a result despite protestations by adults that nothing was there. As an adult, one night my cat hissed and fluffed up at the sight of a glowing orb as it passed through a brick wall. It was followed by another identical orb of nebulous light. In dim light conditions I see two light bands seperated by a half cm gap that tenuously surround another person. I have seen for one mere second a classical flying saucer which just disappeard the same way the wet glimmer of a mirage on a hot road would fade away. I saw at mid day a long object cross from horizon to horizon in just one second. Ir seems to me that we all experience light a bit differently, in fact indoor laser light shows cause my eyes to hurt and close involuntarily while people around me seem to enjoy looking directly at the lights. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler Date: 30 Nov 10 - 07:54 AM My late first wife told me about points of light that she used to see in the corners of various rooms when she was a child. There would be several present at once and they used to move around in a sort of dance and she would sit watching them. The aduts present could not see them. Perhaps the origin of some fairy stories? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: GUEST,Patsy Date: 30 Nov 10 - 10:43 AM Flying my first falcon in the Cotswolds on a beautiful October day. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: Stu Date: 30 Nov 10 - 11:26 AM Prospecting for dinosaur fossils in the badlands of Montana this summer. Searing heat, rattlesnakes, scorpions. Pure heaven. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: olddude Date: 30 Nov 10 - 07:27 PM Near Death experience, the light , the tunnel, the relatives and God that for me was something great. I am not in a rush to check out, nor am I afraid of it either. But that is for me and others that don't agree that is ok ... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: Amos Date: 30 Nov 10 - 08:57 PM Crawling into the blackness of an old miner's tunnel and bringing down a huge overhang of quartz with a shifting iron, coming within a few feet of killing myself. Delightful to see daylight, and be intact in the bargain. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: Bobert Date: 30 Nov 10 - 09:40 PM Does seein' a real UFO in 1971 count??? Yup, saw it clearly fir at least 5 seconds before the trees onscured my sight... Was with a young lady who also saw it... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: Little Hawk Date: 01 Dec 10 - 02:49 AM I had 2 different UFO sightings one summer in the late 60s. Both unforgettable, and very unusual indeed...the vehicle on the first occasion was quite different from the vehicle on the second occasion. I haven't seen any more since....which has been a bit frustrating, given that it's been over 40 years now! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brief great experiences From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 01 Dec 10 - 01:30 PM A view from "Above Everest". |
