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Life is good Posted by Daniel H on May 8, 2022, 8:41 pm Over the past couple of months there has been a group of guys who congregate under the Almond tree behind the office on Sunday around sunset. They play music at an acceptable level and proceed to get drunk. We have an agreement that they can do that as long as they don't leave a mess, and to this date they have complied fully. I'm writing this because of the chuckles I got watching them cleaning up the trash while drunk. When they left one of them gave me a fist bump and said "respecto", I replied La misma para ti (same to you) and I meant it. They remind me of the losers club (Bobby, rest his soul). They don't have girlfriends (to my knowledge) but are brothers in circumstance. They are kind to each other, they are making their way through life, and I love them. Life is good

Re: Life is good Posted by Jo Anna H on May 8, 2022, 9:19 pm, in reply to "Life is good" Daniel, I love that you've shared your observations about your interaction with these guys. I used to teach -- what was to my teenaged students a novel approach -- about respect. Their take on it was: Yeah, I'll respect them if they respect me. That was always stated with a bit of a chip on a shoulder. I suggested: How 'bout you just respect them until they earn your disrespect? There were some interesting discussion that followed. I hope someone besides me remembers. :0)

Re: Life is good Posted by Jean on May 8, 2022, 9:33 pm, in reply to "Re: Life is good" Ahh, the Losers Club, great memories!!!

Re: Life is good Posted by Daniel H on May 9, 2022, 2:01 am, in reply to "Re: Life is good" Yeah, I like that. It's like giving someone you just met 100% and then they go from there. When it comes to respect Autistic Abby comes to mind "Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority” and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person” and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay". https://web.archive.org/web/20150404010354/http://stimmyabby.tumblr.com/post/115216522824/sometimes-people-use-respect-to-mean-treating

Re: Life is good Posted by Amrit on May 9, 2022, 8:31 am, in reply to "Re: Life is good" You touched my heart with your message of kind observation. With such miraculous results! Thanks

Re: Life is good Posted by Jeani Jones on May 9, 2022, 8:58 pm, in reply to "Life is good" Delightful! Thank you for sharing such a warmhearted "story". I can just see it in my mind's eye...the way you so clearly describe it.

Re: Life is good Posted by Brenda Buchanan on May 10, 2022, 9:39 pm, in reply to "Life is good" Daniel, I am grateful to be alive and to…. Bear witness. Pura vida. Love to the people and dogs and cats and flowers and to kindred souls from Canada in laManzanilla. The old Brenda on the Beach Aka Isabella

Re: Life is good Posted by kelly on May 10, 2022, 10:49 pm, in reply to "Life is good" i remember Bobby... and yeah I am a loser too.

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