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Q: (L) In a sense, no matter how careful and aware you are in this world, there's a certain vulnerability that's inherent in having to rely on other people in various ways.
(Pierre) Because you're not alone. You don't perform every task yourself. You depend on others. You depend on others' awareness or susceptibility to be misguided.
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I had an experience back in March that I think relates to this topic. Well one afternoon after taking my mother to her doctor's appointment, we (mom,myself, my brother and his wife) decided to get something to eat. We decided on our favorite sandwich place, but we didn't want to dine in, so I volunteered to go in and place the order to go. Now, I've been to this place many times before and it's always been the same ole same ole but for some reason on that particular day the young man who I haven"t seen before was helping me was extremely sweet and very courteous. The whole time I'm giving him my order, he kept staring at me. And I'm thinking to myself, "i know he's not flirting with me. Come on! I'm a grandma and he's twenty something". But my gut was telling me something was up and up and I didn't know why, it bothered me the whole ride home. But being hungry and the smell of food soon got me to forget (let my guard down?). My was mother was the first to make a comment about the food, she says to me, "now don't get mad at me but the hamburger taste terrible!" And I said, 'Oh Mom it taste good to me', since we ordered the same thing, My brother and his wife seemed to enjoy their meal. It was later that night that I began to get a particular type of headache which I knew to be food related additives; MSG. Needless to say I didn't get much sleep that night. The following morning my brother told me he had diarrhea and that his wife also was experiencing stomach cramp and feeling nauseated. And my mother and I developed UTI (urinary tract infection) right afterwards. We've been food poisoned! Now, I understood what my gut was trying to tell me. "Beware the mask behind this extremely sweet and courteous young man, he's up to no good!"
Whether or not if we have our guards up or down, we still have to encounter society. But, I thank if we can fine tune our gut feelings (FRV?) and interpet them correctly (charged crystal?) and not get distracted (practicing attentiveness), it just might enamor us from potential harms way. osit.
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A: No cliff except for those who don't enter the valley.
Q: (Joe) The Valley of the Shadow is like a bypass for the cliff.
(L) So it's like the difference between the high road and the low road?
A: Yes
I don't know if anybody else is going through this "valley of the shadow" but so far for me it's been a nightmare after nighmare! So, far this year I've lost our family business (jewelry store) of 25 plus years (there goes my encounter with precious metal, precious & semiprecious stones), almost lost my mother due to over prescript-ed daily medication intermixing with new prescription nearly killed her (she's 81 yrs old), I've lost my younger brother in march due to overly reactive contra costa shief department and was killed violently with 8 bullets to his body, his beloved wife put down his dog few days later. So yeah, I could sure use some of this;
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(Galatea) Do you want to tell us anything before you go?
A: Help and love is on the way! Goodbye
