I agree with you, it is not always possible to engage with a post or comment with the quality and intensity. The chemistry has to be right, right? And the topic needs to be something you can relate to.

For sure lol. Sometimes I'll see an interesting post, but don't really know what to say and/or feel like I speak a little differently than the author, so I will just drop a vote if I like it, but not post a comment.

Thank you for the link regarding mind expanding substances. I bookmarked it to read later because I'm a bit on the tired side at the moment and don't feel I can digest it properly right now.

I recently tripped pretty hard on shrooms for the first time in my life. A few different trips over a one month span. I certainly want to do it again. The wisdom and insight I gained from it was pretty profound in a way that is difficult to describe, but let's just say information seemed to be given to me in a gentle manner in which I felt immense gratitude and further release from trauma. The last trip I cried the entire time but it was a necessary trip, tears of gratitude with what I saw and the insight(s) I gained about myself and others. 8 gram trips... I guess I like a little bit of intensity sometimes :D

HaHa, thanks for the Schogetten photo, I'm trying to eat less sweets at the moment, but it's difficult.

LOL, seems I'm not helping any .. :P
I knew you liked sweets hahaha. Do you prefer dark chocolate or milk chocolate?

Wild indeed. Is your sister still staying in touch with them through the Internet? Was there ever a plan to visit each other? ... Oh, do you mean through this recent one and a half years that you lost contact to your sister?

I'm not sure if there were ever plans to meet, and the situation with me and my sister is extremely painful for me to talk about. Her and her husband have custody of my oldest son (12 years old) (I have a 9 year old son as well.) and they will not allow me to see him. I would rather not discuss the depth of the situation in open space any further than this. Privately perhaps, but it's just very difficult to cope with currently.

I stopped talking about it at all, time must heal some wounds, which it will. Though it is uncertain if the relationships will be ever the same again. As with all happenings there is something to be learned from, I think. My world shrank significantly though, and I try to cope to the situation as best as I can.

To the best of my perceptual abilities, I understand, through my own issues and difficulty coping with situations I have little or no control over. Sometimes pushing away the thought(s) is the best I (we?) can do to get through the moment. Avoidance? Maybe a necessary one to avoid destructive/obsessive thought patterns. Things have a way of working out over time, I like to believe.

LOL, Mister from the McGuineas, I am happy to become acquainted to you!

It is mutual! ;D