Thank you for the nice welcome and the kind words solitaire.

I'm not sure how often I will be here. I'm not a big internet poster.

I was just thinking about something that happened to me on Thursday. I have a problem with my foot right now, it is because of my high blood pressure, which sometimes cuts off circulation to my foot. I walk everyday to a little shopping center near my apartment. Cafe, little store, laundromat, ice cream parlor. Nice little place.

Thursday when I was walking, I have an obviously painful limp, a car pulls up and parks and this guy with some really serious problem with his legs, I'm not sure what it is called, gets out of the car and is saying something to me which I cannot make out, then he starts hobbling toward me saying "sir can you do something for me"? And I say, "sure". And he says "will you please take this cane and use it, it is painful watching you walk". And the dude gave me his cane. I didn't want to take it but he said he made it, it was beautifully hand carved, and he wouldn't take no for an answer.

I mention this because I just got back from breakfast and I was thinking how unselfish a gesture that was and comparing it to what the WTBTS wants us to believe about "worldly" people. That they are all "wicked", blah blah blah. I love people and being able to be friendly and warm and open hearted with EVERYONE, not just with the JWs is so important to being happy. The WTBTS is very wrong about that.