A Tribute to abra a collection of her comments

[LLapp]

A note for abra's family: Marnita is a Harvard-educated, retired legal secretary who loves bike-riding, reading ancient classics in the original Greek, and supporting liberal politics. She and abra engaged in honest, careful, and mutually respectful dialogue through many threads over the years. This is a tiny snippet.
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"The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class." — Paul Fussell

marnita
July 21, 2016, 11:13 am
Football is my favorite, so I guess that puts me in my place.

abra
September 5, 2016, 9:46 am
After baseball (Go Cubbies!!!) I watch figure skating, and gymnastics. I'll be having tea on the veranda.

[Synonymous]

Nice. Thanks for this snippet LLapp. It's good to keep our past players in our memory. They all live on here in Cryptoland thank goodness.

[LLapp]

Here's one of those times when abra claimed to be non-exceptional. I'm posting this one if only to get my comment on the record.
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"Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given." — Unattributed

abra
June 16, 2019, 3:03 am
I'm kind of a dabbler. I'm a little bit good at a few things. I have no real talent at anything. Oh, Unattributed how would you measure my success?

puffybob
December 23, 2019, 9:17 pm
This quote doesn't help much, since there's no way to measure the talents you've been given.

LLapp
December 3, 2020, 4:23 pm
Abra, you have talents that are evident in your comments!! For one thing, you are a peacemaker with a talent for fairness and compassionate candor. Also, you're a natural writer.

Synonymous
June 13, 2022, 5:27 pm
A little inheritance doesn't hurt either.

[LLapp]

After we all tried, abra put Kierkegaard into plain English so anyone could get it.
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"Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances." — Soren Kierkegaard

LLapp
September 18, 2016, 8:42 pm
Kierkegaard never makes any sense to me.

marnita
January 7, 2018, 3:26 pm
This particular quote sounds like gibberish to me.

MissKitty
March 3, 2018, 11:15 am
lost in translation. Kilroy 43

blueladyblue
June 27, 2018, 10:03 am
Yeah, it's puzzling. I think the outward appearance of any dead person is anything but transparent.

imsoeasy
February 20, 2019, 9:36 pm
Most people deal with death only at solemn occasions and pontificate on its meaning. Other people deal with the decaying corpse and unforgettable stench.

MDPSY19
January 5, 2020, 9:10 am
Death makes us aware of the most profound possible meanings of people's actions, and helps us to see the underlying intentions and forces within a person (passions) that may have driven those actions.

imported_bees
December 11, 2020, 12:43 pm
Gatherings of families after a death do provoke great passions . Anger is always a guest.

blueladyblue
December 19, 2020, 4:16 pm
Death is the great equalizer and revealer.

abra
August 25, 2021, 1:28 am
After our older sister died, my other sisters and I were together for the first time in two or three years. We saw a stupid commercial on TV about these balls that you could put hamsters in and let them run around the house. It was one of those times where the laughter becomes hysterical. We couldn't stop. I think my grandfather was shocked and offended, but it was involuntary. It was grieving as much as crying.

318WOZ
April 4, 2022, 10:04 pm
I can understand that, Abra.