Friends................

**CarolsCritterCare** · 04-22-2007, 07:52 AM

Friends Without Faces

We sit and we type, and we stare at our screens
We all have to wonder, what this possibly means.
With our mouse we roam, through the rooms in a maze
Looking for something or someone, as we sit in a daze.

We chat with each other, we type all our woes
Small groups we do form, and gang up on our foes.

We wait for somebody, to type out our name
We want recognition, but it is always the same.

We give kisses and hugs, and sometimes flirt
In IMs we chat deeply, and reveal why we hurt.

We do form friendships - but - why we don't know
But some of these friendships, will flourish and grow.

Why is it on screen, we can be so bold
Telling our secrets, that have never been told.

Why is it we share, the thoughts in our mind
With those we can't see, as though we were blind.

The answer is simple, it is as clear as a bell.
We all have our problems, and need someone to tell.

We can't tell real people, but tell someone we must
So we turn to the 'puter, and to those we can trust.

Even though it is crazy, the truth still remains
They are Friends Without Faces, and odd little names.

pk · 04-22-2007, 08:02 AM

:lol: :lol: this is good. :lol: :lol:

**CarolsCritterCare** · 04-22-2007, 08:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pk

:lol: :lol: this is good. :lol: :lol:

Thanks!
Carol

**keith** · 04-29-2007, 10:20 AM

This is great, Carol.

Source? May I use it on my Member page?

Some of the best conversations I've enjoyed the last few years have been with online friends, mostly here at theBubbler.com.

Regards,
Keith

**CarolsCritterCare** · 04-29-2007, 10:27 AM

Thanks.
My friend came up with the graphic after I posted "Friends without Faces"

Source??? Skunk list........... a bunch of folk wrote it together.

Carol

**CarolsCritterCare** · 04-29-2007, 11:26 AM

**AJE** · 05-19-2007, 09:18 AM

Carol is a great Poet!

pk · 05-27-2007, 10:42 PM

Quote:

Carol is a great Poet!

Love the first poem very much...so true.

But the second one: May the fleas of a thousand camels infest the crotch of the person who screws up your day and may their arms be too short to scratch....lol is great! I can think of a few that I would love to see this happen to... :lol: :lol:

**CarolsCritterCare** · 10-12-2007, 08:05 AM

Subject: The Computer Prayer

Dear Lord:
Every single evening
As I'm lying in my bed
This tiny little prayer
Keeps running through my head.

God bless all my family
Wherever they may be,
Keep them warm and safe from harm
For they're so close to me.

And God, there is one more thing
I wish that you could do.
Please don't mind me asking,
Could you bless my computer too.

Now I know that it's not normal
To bless a mother board,
But listen just a second
While I explain to you 'O Lord'.

You see, that little metal box
Holds more than odds and ends
Inside those small compartments
Rest so many of my FRIENDS.

I know so much about them
By the kindness that they give
And this little scrap of metal
Takes me in to where they live.

By faith is how I know them
Much the same as you
We share in what life brings us
And from that our friendship grew.

Please, take an extra minute
From your duties up above
To bless those in my address book
That's filled with so much love!

Wherever else this prayer may reach
To each and every friend,
Bless each e-mail Inbox
And the person who hits Send.

When you update your heavenly list
On your own CD-Rom
Remember each who've said this prayer
Sent up to God.Com

**AJE** · 10-12-2007, 08:19 AM

I loved it Carol! Thank You my friend for the thoughts.

Kelly68 · 10-18-2007, 05:19 PM

Funny thing.....about two years ago I was receiving email from someone I didn't know. But it wasn't spam. Titles would be something that you would get from a friend. Joke titles, stuff like that. For days I would just delete them..then I got to thinking what if a friend changed her email address assuming I would know. So I opened a few after that but could never figure out who they were coming from. So one day I sent a friendly email back asking, Do I know you? Reply was....isn't this so-n-so? I said nope, my name is Kelly and I live in Wisconsin. Here it was an older lady thinking she was sending this stuff to a friend of hers and by mistake they were going to me. We still email to this day. I never have talked to her on the phone, seen her but she sends me friendship stuff and when I would send them back to her she would send me an email saying Thank you Kelly. Friends you "meet" but never actually "meet".

**CarolsCritterCare** · 10-18-2007, 07:00 PM

That is real neat Kelly!! I have tons of Friends in cyber space I will never meet face to face. A few phone friends like that as well.

Kelly68 · 10-18-2007, 07:12 PM

Yes it is neat. At least here in Wisconsin we have a better chance of one day meeting. But long distances all we can share are words.

**CarolsCritterCare** · 11-11-2007, 10:59 AM

**CarolsCritterCare** · 11-30-2007, 09:31 AM

Old age, I have decided, is a gift.

I am now, probably for the first time in my life, the person I have always wanted to be. Oh, not my body! I despair over my body, the wrinkles, the baggy eyes and the sagging butt. And often I am taken aback by that old person that lives in my mirror (who looks like my mother!), but I don't agonize over those things for long.

I would never trade my amazing friends, my wonderful life, my loving family for less gray hair or a flatter belly. As I've aged, I've become more kind to myself, and less critical of myself. I've become my own friend.

I don't chide myself for eating that extra cookie or for not making my bed, or for buying that silly cement gecko that I didn't need, but looks so neat on my patio. I am entitled to a treat, to be messy, to be extravagant.

I have seen too many dear friends leave this world too soon; before they understood the great freedom that comes with aging. Whose business is it if I choose to read or play on the computer until 4 AM and sleep until noon?

I will dance with myself to those wonderful tunes of the 60&70's, and if I, at the same time, wish to weep over a lost love ... I will.

If I choose to, I will walk the beach in a swim suit that is stretched over a bulging body and will dive into the waves with abandon, despite the pitying glances from the jet set. They, too, will get old.

Sure, over the years my heart has been broken. How can your heart not break when you lose a loved one, or when a child suffers, or even when somebody's beloved pet dies? But broken hearts are what give us strength and understanding and compassion. A heart never broken is pristine and
sterile and will never know the joy of being imperfect.

I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning gray, and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep grooves on my face. So many have never laughed and so many have died before their hair could turn silver.

As you get older, it is easier to be positive. You care less about what other people think. I don't question myself anymore. I've even earned the right to be wrong.

So, to answer the question, I accept being old. It is setting me free. I like the person I have become. I am not going to live forever, but while I am still here, I will not waste time lamenting what could have been, or worrying about what will be. And I shall eat dessert every single day. (If I feel like it)

MAY OUR FRIENDSHIP NEVER COME APART, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT'S STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART!

**CarolsCritterCare** · 12-13-2007, 12:43 PM

After serious & cautious consideration.....your contract of friendship has been renewed for the New Year 2008!

It was a very hard decision to make. So try not to screw it up!!!

My Wish for You in 2008

May peace break into your house and may thieves come to steal your debts. May the pockets of your jeans become a magnet of $100 bills. May love stick to your face like Vaseline and may laughter assault your lips! May your clothes smell of success like smoking tires and may happiness slap you across the face and may your tears b