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DavidW

#4860
October 12, 2024, 05:30:58 AM
Quote from: NumberSix on October 11, 2024, 09:05:34 PMWhat if your great struggle is that you're NOT engaged? :-\

It depends upon your meaning of engaged!

hopefullytrusting

#4861
October 12, 2024, 05:41:59 AM
Quote from: DavidW on October 12, 2024, 05:29:12 AMNot me! I'm just enjoying my life. My great struggle is trying to prevent myself from upgrading my speakers. :laugh:

Karl Henning

#4862
October 12, 2024, 06:38:08 AM
Quote from: DavidW on October 12, 2024, 05:29:12 AMNot me! I'm just enjoying my life. My great struggle is trying to prevent myself from upgrading my speakers. :laugh:
Embrace the non-struggle!
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Madiel

#4863
October 12, 2024, 06:46:07 AM
Quote from: Karl Henning on October 11, 2024, 08:53:52 PMHow does it go?--Be kind, for everyone you meet is engaged in a great struggle.

Getting out of bed, mostly. Once I'm out it's usually pretty good.

Oh, the other struggle is keeping the podcast episode queue under control.
I finally have the ability to edit my signature again. But no, I've no idea what I want to say here right now.

Kalevala

#4864
October 12, 2024, 11:35:54 AM
Quote from: DavidW on October 12, 2024, 05:29:12 AMNot me! I'm just enjoying my life. My great struggle is trying to prevent myself from upgrading my speakers. :laugh:
Well, to be honest, your comment about returning to an empty/lonely house was sad to read.  And I do wish the best for you.  I'm just bringing it up because we all have our struggles.  We're all human.  Even the gods had their problems.  ;)

Best wishes,

K

foxandpeng

#4865
October 12, 2024, 11:37:08 AM
Always a shame when people you like go elsewhere and you lose the stimulus they bring. Having said that, we all have 'stuff' and we all come here - and leave here - for different reasons.

I appreciate this forum mostly for the music discussion and thoughtful writing of those who contribute. The spats and drama mostly whoosh on over my head, because people are people wherever you go. Gregory House is correct - people are often bastard covered bastards, but dig deep enough and there is connection and decency enough to to be found in even the strangest of us. As others have said, no forum is perfect. Certainly none of them are enough to disturb my peace. I know we aren't all built the same.

I will miss Spotty, but others of you remain enough for my reasons to stay. I do hope for a future return, however.
"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people ... then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbour — such is my idea of happiness"

Tolstoy

Karl Henning

#4866
October 12, 2024, 12:04:31 PM
Love this "place" and you all.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

foxandpeng

#4867
October 12, 2024, 12:14:43 PM
Quote from: Karl Henning on October 12, 2024, 12:04:31 PMLove this "place" and you all.

Yeah, me too.

Most of you :D :P  8)
"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people ... then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbour — such is my idea of happiness"

Tolstoy

hopefullytrusting

#4868
October 12, 2024, 12:17:39 PM
Quote from: Karl Henning on October 12, 2024, 12:04:31 PMLove this "place" and you all.

For sure, I just love some more than others ... :P

André

#4869
October 12, 2024, 12:19:45 PM
Quote from: Kalevala on October 12, 2024, 11:35:54 AMWell, to be honest, your comment about returning to an empty/lonely house was sad to read.  And I do wish the best for you.  I'm just bringing it up because we all have our struggles.  We're all human.  Even the gods had their problems.  ;)

Best wishes,

K

Definitely. Ask Wagner. Or rather, ask Anna Russell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m69aPAo1rXE

Karl Henning

#4870
October 12, 2024, 12:21:14 PM
Quote from: André on October 12, 2024, 12:19:45 PMDefinitely. Ask Wagner. Or rather, ask Anna Russell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m69aPAo1rXE
The gods had their problems, but they didn't appreciate Wagner compounding those problems 😉 
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

vandermolen

#4871
October 12, 2024, 01:28:50 PM
Where else could I receive a message (apropos of nothing) like:
'Sorry vandermolen you are banned from using this forum'?
 ;D
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Madiel

#4872
October 12, 2024, 01:29:32 PM
Quote from: vandermolen on October 12, 2024, 01:28:50 PMWhere else could I receive a message like:
'Sorry vandermolen you are banned from using this forum'?
 ;D

The apology is a lovely touch, isn't it.
I finally have the ability to edit my signature again. But no, I've no idea what I want to say here right now.

vandermolen

#4873
October 12, 2024, 01:31:08 PM
Quote from: Madiel on October 12, 2024, 01:29:32 PMThe apology is a lovely touch, isn't it.
It's the icing on the cake!
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

NumberSix

#4874
October 12, 2024, 01:49:21 PM
Quote from: vandermolen on October 12, 2024, 01:28:50 PMWhere else could I receive a message (apropos of nothing) like:
'Sorry vandermolen you are banned from using this forum'?
 ;D

Always a pleasure to discover that you yourself are a "Missing Member".   >:D

hopefullytrusting

#4875
October 12, 2024, 02:17:13 PM
I will also add I was always told explicitly why I got in trouble on this forum, and I was always in the wrong (I can be impish).

I can only speak for myself, but I would be shocked if I am an exception.

Madiel

#4876
October 12, 2024, 02:55:27 PM
Quote from: hopefullytrusting on October 12, 2024, 02:17:13 PMI will also add I was always told explicitly why I got in trouble on this forum, and I was always in the wrong (I can be impish).

I can only speak for myself, but I would be shocked if I am an exception.

Logically you must be an exception if you're always in the wrong. People need only oppose you occasionally to be in the right on those occasions.
I finally have the ability to edit my signature again. But no, I've no idea what I want to say here right now.

Madiel

#4877
October 12, 2024, 03:55:48 PM
Quote from: hopefullytrusting on October 12, 2024, 03:30:27 PMWhat an interesting interpretation.

I aim to be thought-provoking.
I finally have the ability to edit my signature again. But no, I've no idea what I want to say here right now.

DavidW

#4878
Today at 06:14:00 AM
Quote from: DavidW on October 12, 2024, 05:29:12 AMNot me! I'm just enjoying my life. My great struggle is trying to prevent myself from upgrading my speakers. :laugh:

Oh, I failed; I bought the speakers. :o

Harry

#4879
Today at 07:09:38 AM
Quote from: DavidW on Today at 06:14:00 AMOh, I failed; I bought the speakers. :o

For what it's worth, these speakers are worth every penny, and will fit many configurations. As a matter of fact, one of my musical friends has them too, bought them a couple of months ago and he is almost calling me daily to tell what he heard, and what he never heard before. He feels the need to play every single CD in his collection anew, but with more than 15.000 CD's that will be quite a task. And he is already 71 years of age, but as happy as a child with the R 11.
Quote from Manuel, born in Spain, currently working at Fawlty Towers.

" I am from Barcelona, I know nothing.............."
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