Vest Has Left the Building
To advise that Vest (Les Bowyer) passed away this morning. Regards, Chris (Son).
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The Last Post
I am sorry to say this blog will soon have its final post, this post may be my last. I would like to say "Thank You" to all of you nice people with whom I have been in blog contact over the past sixteen years. Unfortunately, my health issues have become worse over the past two weeks, my mobility is at its lowest point; and I become dizzy after a couple of paces, I am using oxygen permanently. It feels like I am falling apart; I have Kidney - Heart - Lung and Bladder problems, plus many other add ons to stir the mix. I am still living? at home, where I have a comfortable environment and the necessary assistance,. I do not sleep well; probably due to loss of body activity. My eldest son Christopher will be the person to inform you of my final time on earth. I need to lay down for a while right now. My best wishes to you all. Vest Daily Gaggle, AKA. Leslie John Bowyer.
OPEN FORUM. This is a new concept in blogging.
In future ALL posts on this Site will have a section to be known as 'OPEN FORUM. this is to be introduced as from now and a reminder of this promulgated at each time a new post arrives. Open Forum comments are not restricted to the current post, however, it would be advisable not to retro too far into the archives. When referring to comments in archives, you will be advised to mention the post and it's date. Open forum comments Shall Not relate to the current posts, and must be headed 'Open Forum. Open talk opens the way to further talk, as does wine or love, and a little bit of gossip is good for the soul, another good thing about gossip is that it is within every ones reach. The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
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Most couples focus on avoiding conflict. But happy couples know how to maximize the positive—teasing each other, providing support in secret, and, when called for, taking the focus off their partner.
If you've ever gotten relationship advice, you've probably heard plenty of don'ts.
Don't nag.
Don't stonewall.
Don't blame.
Don't leave the toilet seat up, don't squeeze the toothpaste tube from the middle, and definitely don't assume he's that into you when he's just not. Well, don't listen.
The happiest couples focus on do's, not don'ts. Rather than just steering clear of negative interactions, they actively work to build positivity into their relationships. They show what psychologists call an "approach orientation," moving toward what's good, rather than moving away from what's bad.
But a new wave of research is changing all that. Positivity-oriented psychologists find that maintaining a favorable balance of positive to negative emotions helps people—and relationships—thrive.
"We've already learned about all the toxic stuff that harms relationships," says psychologist Dacher Keltner, author of Born to Be Good. "There's a whole new science of how to build in good emotions."
Positivity has a way of shifting our perspective: While negative emotions shut us down, positive emotions open us up. They help us "broaden and build," argues Barbara Fredrickson, a psychologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of Positivity.
Positive emotions actually spur big-picture thinking, yielding benefits like keener peripheral vision and increased creativity—not to mention better relationships.
"Finding ways to inject humor and lightness into a difficult situation is not merely a distraction," says Fredrickson, "It actually helps people see possibilities."
Partners stuck in a "one-note song" should move towards greater positivity by seizing "micro-opportunities" to connect, she says.
Positive emotion is about more than just having fun—it includes gratitude, inspiration, and curiosity.
When participants do a "loving-kindness meditation," a form of meditation focused on generating warm and tender feelings toward others, the quotient of positive emotions in their lives increases, which in turn boosts relationship satisfaction, Frederickson has found.
You may not always achieve all the positives you seek—but it's enough to realize that positivity is important and to set goals reflecting that.
The payoff is great: more fun, more growth, better sex, and more sustained intimacy.
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Let us try to put down in simple terms the difference between love and passion.
Passion has no morals, no standards, no control, and no compassion. It is cruel and devouring, looking only for its own immediate fulfillment.
Passion tosses aside the rules, Christian ethics, civilization and individual plans and intentions. Passion disregards dignity and grace. It is humorless, full of rage.
Love illuminates all aspects of our relations between men and women, parents and child, friends and, ideally, between nations.
Sometimes in the rec()~ nition of one spirit by another there is a sudden spark kindling an inspiration which may last a lifetime.
Love never destroys. It is trusting like a child, tender Iik a lover, and tough like a mother.
Love knows no barriers, no age limits. For me, love implies the ability to accept the person just as she is. Love understand respects, and is always willing to wait. Love list and love then gives.
Love is also joyful and, at tilll exquisitely and quietly humorous. Love can l) in many different guises, but when love belween man and a woman overflows into passion, the relationship is restored and re-created again and again. The marriage is then truly blessed.
more so for Wally
By reporting the reality of some men's fantasies and appetites as they are experienced and acted upon, Miss Hite may perhaps unintentionally free other men from the overly restrictive shackles placed upon them in childhood.
Unfortunately, boys were often taught to conform to what was thought to be a necessary social norm by those who considered any deviations to be wicked.
Fortunately, the same principle of conformity that constricts boys can liberate men. Reading this book, they may accept the license offered by a new conformity: ''If they can do it, I can do it, too.''
The danger is that men who perform acts of sexuality not for the pleasure of contact but to express anger, vengeance, rebellion or to dispel feelings of inadequacy may also read ''The Hite Report on Male Sexuality'' as a justification.
Both the renewing and affirming sexuality that connects and soothes, and the isolating sexuality that alienates and repels can take the same outward form.
And though some of the narratives hint at the difference between loving sex and alienating sex, the outward form of sexuality remains Miss Hite's consistent emphasis.
During the past 30 years, the great debate about sexuality has seemed to center on a confusion between love and the sexual act.
To the degree that this book adds more weight and evidence to the conclusion that loving expressions of sexuality can take many forms, it will be valuable to the reader - so long as he is not an amateur in loving, an art that ''The Hite Report on Male Sexuality'' does not address.