Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

:) i don't think i came across the way i meant to...especially after re-reading my last post what i'm trying to say is that we have similar views on what to do and dissimilar views, as well...for instance, she believes dope is the problem, whereas i believe dope misuse is the problem...it's a big di...

we keep bringing up my wife trust me...she exists...she's just not an internet user i know...i don't get it either yes, i am mainly going to the meetings to support my wife...like my son, she doesn't listen much to what i say, despite considerable first hand experience that i actually remember :) i'...

i've been using the love word a lot lately...he doesn't like it :) yes, he knows all the history mediation, intervention, don't know...one side of me says he's just being a kid, but there's also rage and other stuff going on that gets my spidey senses telling me there's something wrong at this point...

au contraire

i feel like my own mother was so demanding and never let me make my own mestakes that i began to shoot myself in the foot just as a form of acting out...

is an outstanding comment

and appreciated

i respectfully disagree i mentioned the stuff about him admitting to use of the harder drugs because it illustrated we used to have an open relationship...the only feedback i gave him on it was about the dangers of drug use, using personal examples...i've used my own problems in my past to try to he...

oh yeah...stilltruckin

i wasn't insulted at being called a lifer

i was insulted because you said i had certain opinions because i was a lifer


two different things

thanks to everyone for their carefully considered thoughts...i wasn't insulted by anything i read here...appreciate it all of course i considered the effect of my sea time on his situation...to not do so would be silly and avoidance...especially important now that i am 3 weeks away from going back t...

maybe i'm an ass, but it doesn't feel like it sonny boy is about to turn 18...in 9 months he's gone from a national level kayaker, making national championships 3 years in a row, never failing a class, to passing only 1 of 4 classes last fall, admittedly smoking dope each and every day, has had his ...

i'm lighting one up right now reading about it


makes me laugh...every time my wife bugs me about smoking, i go outside and light one up

i was hoping it would make her stop...didn't work...now i'm conditioned and do it when she bugs me anyway

maybe trees see all
but are prone to inaction
time-biding? lazy?

...being able to Google old threads. You should definetly try it. Some old gold there.

i've tried that, get to the thread, but get an empty page when i click on the thread

do you do something different that gives you access?

i used to be shellfish
until i reacted badly
to my shrimpish ways

seafood in trees

one stump's tidal torrent
is another's graceful aging
or am i being selfish?

near as i can tell: a woman gets progressively more mature and smart as she ages, and then around 40ish, starts to decline...probably due to holding the maturity/smartness advantage for too long...they get too full of themselves a man gets progressively more mature and smart until about age 13, give...

an old friend drifted to my stoop today
sober as a duck, i wondered how the flightless one
got into a tree
after, i was simply happy he did


flotsam relics hinting yesterday's life
may breathe anew in new light