I'm confused at this point. So who would like to be discussion leader?

Chris OConnor wrote:I'm confused at this point. So who would like to be discussion leader?

Let's have co-leaders. GR9 says in her blog that she's going to be gone this weekend and co-facilitating. So maybe she'll co-facilitate The Secret Garden and help us connect to our inner selves when she gets back. But if there has to be one, and you need a quick answer, then, OK, I'll do it.

Tom

Thanks for doing it, Tom. I know you're the best human for the job. I will participate as much and as stimulatingly as I can, but I think you can supply a lot of good background and perspective, and you are totally joking about our respective social skills. At least you're a grownup.

You're doing just fine with that, Thomas . . . nice to see you here.

It's a good book, isn't it?

WildCityWoman wrote:You're doing just fine with that, Thomas . . . nice to see you here.

It's a good book, isn't it?

It's a great book, Carly. I could use some of that Magic myself. GR9 has seen multiple movies, read the book before, is highly sensitive to racial issues, does things with crystals and Tarot cards, and has even been sung lullibies to in Hindustani (like Mary did to Colin), and she is going to be hexed and have bad Karma if she doesn't participate more -- unless, of course, she has a very good excuse. And I was hoping Ashleigh, who is taking a course in magic, would show up too. Isn't is so nice that we have a book on Magic to counterbalance the scientific atheism on this site?

Tom

Oh Thomas,

I am so sorry that I have behaved in a manner befitting a hex-wish from you. I assure you, it worked. I got the most awful poison oak and had prescription steroids and cortizone cream...did you know you can get poison oak in the winter? Even if you go for a hike after recently fallen snow? It doesn't seem quite fair.

That isn't entirely the reason why I haven't been online, but the rash and the snow were both factors among others that deterred me from getting to a computer to visit booktalk. I profoundly and abjectly grovel in hopes you will forgive me and call off your hex. It is powerful.

The good news: still here, still hale, still happy to know you and everyone here. I hope your winter has been wonderful and full of love and laughter in my absence.

GentleReader9 wrote:I am so sorry that I have behaved in a manner befitting a hex-wish from you.

Clearly I do not know my own powers if I am afflicting a person in Oregon with poison oak I promise to be more careful. And I do feel you discomfort because when I got into it -- from walking through smoke, I think -- one eye was swollen shut and the other partially. And as bad as the poison oak was, I also had to put up with a tongue lashing from a military doctor who seemed to imagine I had my own private hospital to check into and should not be bothering him.

I hope your winter has been wonderful and full of love and laughter in my absence.

Well, your insights into The Secret Garden are so brightening on these dark days that I don't want to miss any of them.

Tom

GentleReader9 wrote:I got the most awful poison oak and had prescription steroids and cortizone cream. . .

GR9, poison oak may have serious consequences:

"I took a trip to CA in October and got into the equivalent of poison
ivy but poison ivy made of thorns. The end result -- just before it
cleared up -- was that my arms and legs were covered with a hideous
rash called reactive dermatitis. Visions of Jim Henson's flesh-eating
bacteria chomped through my head. Thankfully MEGA doses of steroids
took care of it."

Corticosteroids may weaken bones.Be very careful to avoid falls.

Tom