GLP'ers, this widow wants to talk to you for a minute

GO EAT!!!!!!

Welcome! Awesome name, and I am sorry for your loss.


Oh, and on the Greek, I just remember endaxi, oxi, and pou ine to fos...where is the light, because my landlady taught my son to say it as a baby boy lol.(sorry bout the awful spelling)

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I shall never be able to imitate that refreshingly cold clarity of his, though I don't mind saying we were of like mind there and elsewhere.

Awen, we're all here on this Earth trying to figure things out. Life is a strange thing. Just when you think you got things figured out it throws you a curve ball.
There are many truth seekers here on GLP. There is alot of wisdom and goofiness here. Lots of craziness and whackiness too. That's why I love this place too.
GLP has been helping me figure stuff out as well. It's a great forum for figuring things out at your own pace.
The creator of the universe freaking loves us all so very much. In the end, it'll all be alright. Nobody gets lost. Nobody gets stolen. God does not lose.
Have a great weekend!

Hey I remember Navajo Nights, he was pretty articulate, and opinionated, which is not a bad thing! He used to make me think of David Yeagley, was he a fan, do you know?
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I am sorry he is gone but I am glad that you are here!
Stick around because we need good posters like you!

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Condolences...

Tá a fhios agam go bhfuil an méid a deirimid i nGaeilge.

For GLP, I thought it best to honour the usual distinctions between one Gaelic and another, as we do in Welsh. For example, we say Gwyddeleg for Irish or Albaeneg for Scottish. There are just enough differences between even those two to make it difficult for the learner. You will know best, of course. It was my brother who went to school in Ireland and had to get his Gaelic medal, not I.

Eat, you dawg you! Way to help this poor woman's pain! Maybe i should start doing more push ups!

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Your spelling is actually very good! You have written these things exactly as they would be pronounced and that is hard even for a lot of regular Greek speakers to do. You must have a very good ear for languages. I do not think we can do Greek alphabet in here; at least, I have tried it and failed here before. Do you not find it interesting that only in Greek does one say 'nai' for 'yes?' That could get you into some compromising situations, couldn't it?

Sorry and thanks, That was very nice.

My husband and I fell so completely in love with the songs of Laos and the enchanting people who sing them, we had actually started studying Thai together so we could learn Lao next. I am continuing this for his sake and it is surely my fervent prayer that my beloved dances now in paradise with beautiful girls like these! Here is a very nice ladies' dance, a traditional song put with a modern twist. I wonder how many GLP guys will get a sudden urge to visit beautiful Laos now...

OK, EAT, let's get down. When I really get all fucked up, it just has to be Greek. I'll translate (as I listen)and in the Greek word order so you can hear it right. There is, BTW, no use of infinitive in Greek; always the verbs are found in first person singular so my translation might not be as 'neat' as the American English. If this were a country song, only George Jones would be good enough to sing it. Instead it is the great Haris Alexiou:


Tonight I want to drink
Nothing afterwards for me to remember
Into the smoke, to become ensnared
Consequences, not to fear
Tonight I want to drink
I want to escape from my boundaries
Into the smoke to confess to myself
About my lost dreams

I'll light up with cigarettes (or joints?)
I'll put out with drinks
Now that I've taken of desire
Ashes all can become anymore

(dance this one with me, EAT. No right or wrong way because it has to be from within)

Tonight I want to drink
Everyone and everything for me to cancel them out
Into the smoke,
for me to disappear
backwards not to ever look again

I'll light up with smoke
I'll put out with drinks
Now I've tasted desire
Ashes all can become anymore

And if the mountains should crumble
or disappear into the sea
not a tear, no not I.....

wow. you're deep.
come back to the shallow end, ok?
we can play catch with the frisbee.


gotta go. have a good weekend. see you on Monday if CERN hasn't destroyed the world.

Love is strong yet delicate.
It can be broken.
To truly love is to understand this.
To be in love is to respect this.

- Stephen Packer -

AHHH!! Your Greek music and language, and and...OH how I miss Greece! I could still slap myself for being so young and ignorant when I was there and not getting into the language and culture more. Skinnyasu!~(said that a little TOO much, lol)

I lived in Ano Glyfada, and wow did I have a good time with my landlord and lady. They invited us to their name days, and I can still feel the music and happy spirit while dancing with them! We danced like crap, but no one said a thing. And the FOOD!! I can still make so many things, thanks to them.

Oh, and the ladies would call my son bobbynooleemoo, or bobbynakimoo, he was a chubby redhead of about five months or so.

Yeah, you brought back some awesome memories. Thanks.

I shall keep this post forever. You are the best of the best.

How kind you are to say this. I think your question also deserves an answer and the sooner the better:
Well, we were both fans; 'were' being the active term here. My husband in fact, made an issue of sending me straight over to that website to post and show support, a request I made the effort to honour after losing my beloved. The man hated my guts on virtual sight, real foaming at the mouth hate.

I am so grateful that my dear husband wasn't able to be so disappointed in the ersatz Indian and Conservative-but-true-blue-misogynist as I was. John would have been so dismayed at seeing one more right-winger fool going right ahead with dividing the Conservative base against itself, bashing women (especially white ones) every chance he gets, and all because the 'Yoogles' is gay but because of his Cotton Mather fundamentalism, cannot come to terms with it. By his own public admission, he has never even had one girlfriend, hates all females with a whole heart, and he longs to be buggered by a he-man Aryan swain. Have you seen him whining for the return of the 'strong white male' as if he thinks they've gone somewhere out of his reach? My husband was a traditional full-blood Navajo so you can imagine what he would have thought of the latest from Yoogles.

His racist tirades are simply too much; he even bashes Indians and here he is supposed to be one too, and in case you haven't seen his screeds about Obama, a lapse that is sure to get him a visit from Dept of Homeland Security. Conservatism is supposed to be about honouring the Constitution, believing in it and being willing to work for it and fight for it and there's room there for every colour and every creed. If we all have no future together in this country, we'll have no future left at all.

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Hey that was a great reply about David Yeagley. I still find him kind of amusing and admirable in a way just because he is SO opinionated. I mean he makes up for a lot of really apathetic wishy washy people LOL. Someone has to do it! :-)

A friend of mine, a Lummi Indian here, read some stuff at David Yeagley's site when I told him about it, and said "Well, he'd be okay if he'd just get off his high horse for a minute" and I thought that was perfect, I said, "he's on the highest horse of the highest horse that anyone was ever on".

Sorry he jumped on you though - I am sure that was unfair and uncalled for. I would only say one thing in his favor which is I have seen him apologize sincerely for things he has said. I give him credit for that.

To me he is just part of a spectrum of ideas out there - I try not to take any of it personally - but I see he attacked you directly - that sucks for sure!!!!!

I'm so sorry to hear that your husband passed away. I do remember him. Hope to hear more from you. Take care. :anim2:

My beloved GLP'ers

Like any poor lonely widow, I am in love with romance. Now I bring, of all places, Vietnam, a romantic duet of the very best , that my husband adored. It is my song to all of you for here is where I always come when my heart is hurting:

thanks for posting today. Good to hear from the "real" glp-ers now and then...(especially after they're released early for good behavior!)

are you Vietnamese? And, by the way, I love your Avatar!!!! couwuel

How nice of you to come in and say this! No, I am not Vietnamese and neither was my husband. I'm mostly Celt and my husband was all Navajo. We both loved beautiful songs; it's what we appreciated most about Youtube for giving us all a chance to hear them from everywhere. We found that song one weekend just going from link to link. We'd started with our usual favourite Lao songs and then found lists by people who offered songs from all over that region of the world. A great way to spend a day at home together!

I found the avatar on a site that has mostly avatars. Thanks for the compliment. I love cats and have many. If I can remember where I got it, I'll bring the link in. There were some lovely ones brought in from all over the world.