Mike/Hello everybody

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Hi Ex-Lurker Mike,

>Hi Harsha! (and others) As long as you asked, I'll come out of

>lurking status (where I've been in the week or so since I joined)

>to introduce myself.

>

>My name is Mike Saathoff. Originally from Southern California,

>I have spent time in the SF Bay area and Texas, and am now living

>in Southern Colorado.

 

 

I'm Annie from Oz.

 

>Who am I?? If I could convincingly answer that question I probably

>wouldn't be spending my time puttering around internet groups. But

>as I don't really have a clue who I am (except a piece of the All >striving

>to peer beyond the illusion) I'll give you one sentence >about some of the

>ego-labels I have attached to myself.

>

>I am a married (with 6 year old twin girls :-) recovering

> >alcoholic/addict scuba-diving shrink living in Pueblo, Colorado,

 

 

....took a few drugs myself in days gone by :-)

Sounds like you've 'done it hard'.

 

>who is taking tentative steps towards awakening (while another part of me

>is urging me to jump into life with reckless, gleeful >abandon).

 

 

There is really nothing you can do to 'awaken'. It seems to

be a matter of grace. Jump into life with reckless glee...

sounds good :-)

 

....abandon everything you who enter here :-)

 

>So far I've enjoyed my time hanging around with all of you. Since I have

>the floor, I'd like to share a poem I just composed for y'all:

>

>Contemplating the enlightenment

>Of people I've never met.

>Counting from one to thirty-two

> and ruminating on blue pearls and patchouli.

>Looking deep inside myself

> for the one who watches and waits.

>Quieting my mind, waiting for the Truth.

>Stilling the rushing waters of my thoughts

> to hear the magic words:

>

>"Take a nap, it's good for you."

>Oh shit; MOM! what are you still doing in my head?

>Oh well, back to my shrink.

 

 

Cool poem. Stick around and talk to us some more (please:-)

 

Love

Annie

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