My 1000th Post: A Toast!

[Voice for Peace]

To everyone at DU (especially the serial posters of GD-P):

You folks have challenged my thinking, informed & inspired me,
illuminated my biases, maddened me, saddened me, made me
laugh (a lot!) provided me a whole lot of great links, and helped
me waste a whole lot of time. With apologies to Alan Jay Lerner,
I salute you:

I've grown accustomed to this place!
It almost makes the day begin...
I've grown accustomed to buffoonery,
chicanery, jejeunery

the sighs, the woes,
the highs, the lows
are second nature to me now..
like breathing out, and breathing in

I was serenely Independent*,
and content before we met!
surely I can always be that way again...
and yet...

I've grown accustomed to this place,
in its totality...
Accustomed.... to.... GD-P


"You see things; and you say, Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say, Why not?"
-George Bernard Shaw

*(now an Independent for Obama; but saluting EVERYONE here, regardless)

[babylonsister]

1. Very sweet, Voice for Peace. You are a welcome addition to DU!

:hug:

[Voice for Peace]

14. Thank you, a high compliment from BabylonSister!

[Voice for Peace]

2. and giving myself a kick, to boot!

It's been a long hard climb.

[monmouth]

3. That was wonderful, I heard the music in my head...uh oh....n/t

[Voice for Peace]

16. LOL.. I am SORRY!

Quick:

Just you wite, johnmchiggins, just you wite

[bicentennial_baby]

4. Yay!

:toast:

[Adelante]

5. Congratulations

And thanks for the song :)

[Voice for Peace]

18. Thank you, I couldn't help it!

[cbayer]

6. Congratulations!

I trust you will use your status wisely.

[Voice for Peace]

10. LOL.. of course I will, doesn't everybody? nt

[housewolf]

7. How wonderful!

What a fabulous use of words!

You're a poet... but you don't know it.. (nope, won't go there!) :)

Thanks for giving me a smile.

:toast:

[Voice for Peace]

11. Thank you! feels like my birthday. nt

[sloppyjoe25s]

8. congrats - be kind to newbies still!

even though you are not officially "Over the hill" ;)

[Voice for Peace]

12. I will never forget what it feels like to be a newbie, the scorn, the shame, the humiliations

[blm]

9. Glad to have your presence.

I think information and open government is the most important ingredient to any democracy.

[Voice for Peace]

13. Absolutely agree. Too much information gets confusing though I have to admit

and I've been having the strangest dreams lately.. I dream in threads with conflicting multicolored posts, no joke.

[grantcart]

15. anybody who longs for peace is not an independent

[Voice for Peace]

17. you are right, I am utterly dependent on my heart and its longing.

[fadedrose]

19. I agree about the waste of time part....10 min to find "jejuenery"

actually it can't be found because it ain't a word. When you revise the song after your 2000th post, change it to "je·june·ness" or "je·ju·ni·ty," which are both nouns and actually words.

Yes, the waste of time is something we're all grateful to the posters in DU for. :)

[Voice for Peace]

21. LOL.. I reserve the right to make up words if they don't rhyme.

[SeaLyons]

20. That was great...

Congratulations from a Hillary supporter!!

[Voice for Peace]

22. Thank you, and may the candidate who is best for all of us win this race!

[helderheid]

23. Love it!

:yourock:

:toast:

[Voice for Peace]

24. many thanks!

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[ClayZ]

25. Congratulations, Voice for Peace

Your screen name reminded me of this story!

The Weight of a Nothing

"Tell me the weight of a snowflake," a coalmouse asked a wild dove.

"Nothing more than nothing," the dove answered.

"In that case I must tell you a marvelous story," the coalmouse said. "I sat on a fir branch close to the trunk when it began to snow. Not heavily, not in a raging blizzard. No, just like in a dream, without any violence at all. Since I didn't have anything better to do, I counted the snowflakes settling on the twigs and needles of my branch. Their number was exactly 3,471,952. When the next snowflake dropped onto the branch--nothing more than nothing -- as you say -- the branch broke off."

Having said that, the coalmouse ran away.

The dove, since Noah's time an authority on peace, thought about the story for a while. Finally, she said to herself, "Perhaps there is only one person's voice lacking for peace to come to the world." - Source unknown

[Voice for Peace]

28. Thank you so much for this story.

It choked me up, has very significant meaning to me. I have never heard it before.

[ClayZ]

30. You are more than welcome!

Peace, and Loving Kindness!

[VolcanoJen]

26. Love ya, Voice for Peace!

Congratulations, and thank you for being here. You're an excellent contributor, and you have this unique ability to lift people up. I know, you've done it to me.

:-)

:toast: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :toast:

[Voice for Peace]

29. Thanks Volcano Jen, you've done it for me many times, especially those days before Ohio vote.

[mythyc]

27. this is just great! K&R

thanks for sharing, and kudos to you good fellow :toast: