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Post by jimpres on Sept 25, 2011 5:42:24 GMT -7
I received your email this morning and see you have 150 new members. Happy to hear that. Hope all is going well for you and the site.
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Post by Jaga on Sept 25, 2011 8:11:32 GMT -7
Jim,
thank you so much for your nice post. I am so happy to see you back. Please, stay with us!
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Post by karl on Sept 25, 2011 8:55:46 GMT -7
Jim
It is good you have a visit here, you have been missed! I do trust with great hope all is well with you...
Karl
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Post by Jaga on Sept 25, 2011 9:33:47 GMT -7
Karl,
you and Eric encouraged me to reach back to our old members! How are you doing now?
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Post by karl on Sept 25, 2011 11:39:29 GMT -7
Karl, you and Eric encouraged me to reach back to our old members! How are you doing now? Jaga Thank you for your recognition to Eric, my self is simple the product of work. Our world has a natural progression of occurring event in as of a matrix. One action reflects upon another and so forth. With the continuance of some time of one person attempting to access into the forum with out success, and under a multitude of various user names, it was suspicious of the same or similar year of birth used. Usually on or about the year of 1985. It is to then use that year number as a tracking vector with variances for how ever the case may be. But, please not to use my manner as offensive or as an abuse of potential new members, for this would be opposite of intent. For each currant and future member, is an important person and vital. For each person rather currant, or past, or future, has much to offer in individual life experience and interest that is an enrichment to all of us. My suspicions though, are not of the above. For with the fairly unlimited access in technology and communications available at present to the common good. It would not be out of ordinary for groups as comprising a contest amongst them selves, to compete in the manner of numbers of forums they flood with memberships they wish not to honour, but only to show as a number. I do trust with great hope, that I am wrong in this observation and assessment. Remember the day when for international communication and/or in 3rd world conditions, the use of a battery powered Com/Sat unit was mandatory? Now, it is common practice for even the very poor, to have instant communication with use of a cell phone... In as of my self as a person, I am coping better each time period with the loss of my mother {she was 88 years}, with her loss, I was to find of the previous month of Aug. I had lost an uncle to emphysema, with that loss, was of notification of loss of a cousin I was close to, even though we had not communicated for some many years, she had passed quickly from emphysema and congestive heart failure at age 67. It would so appear: That when the sky will fall, it manages to strike us upon the head in a reality we wish not to be. Karl
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Post by jimpres on Sept 25, 2011 20:05:32 GMT -7
Jaga/Karl/Eric, From time to time I'll stop by and visit. I have doing a lot with Polish Media Issues. We try to correct the false impression that the concentration camps were Polish. We get a number of incorrect media information each day. I help my stepson here in TN who has an online nursery. I just got back from San Diego visiting my grandboys, twins. I am going to Poland for the holidays. It is nice to be missed. I did publish an ebook on Amazon its the translation of my cousins memoirs from Stutthof. Other then that all is well. Finally cooling off here in the south. Nice to hear from you all.
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Post by Jaga on Sept 25, 2011 22:05:04 GMT -7
Karl,
unfortunately all of us come to the moment in our life when we lose these who loved us - our parents, uncles and aunts. For me it helps to think that they are still here with me, when I need them. I believe that we do not die completely, we are surrounded by good souls, especially these who love us.
Well, we need to live in a present time. You were lucky that your mother lived such a long life. You have your wife, children and grandchildren to live for!
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Post by justjohn on Sept 26, 2011 3:27:17 GMT -7
Jim,
Good to hear from you again. Going to Poland for the holidays seems pretty nice.
How do you like the new Facebook?
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Post by jimpres on Sept 26, 2011 9:36:12 GMT -7
JJ
Should be a fun time in Poland.
FB well not a fan of the new changes. Seems more out of line with the rest of the posts by the community.
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Post by Eric on Sept 26, 2011 16:31:07 GMT -7
I think I'm getting too much credit here. I make suggestions but do little actual work. Story of my life.
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Post by karl on Sept 27, 2011 5:36:56 GMT -7
Karl, unfortunately all of us come to the moment in our life when we lose these who loved us - our parents, uncles and aunts. For me it helps to think that they are still here with me, when I need them. I believe that we do not die completely, we are surrounded by good souls, especially these who love us. Well, we need to live in a present time. You were lucky that your mother lived such a long life. You have your wife, children and grandchildren to live for! Thank you Jaga For it was reassuring to know of your caring with compassion. Very much appreciated. You are quite correct, my life has been a series of good fortune, it takes but a moment of thought to realize this. Thank you and God Bless Karl
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Post by pieter on Oct 3, 2011 14:27:37 GMT -7
Karl,
I am sorry for the loss of your mother, uncle and cousin. Please accept my heartfelt condolences. I witnessed people losing their loved ones by the years, and it took some of them a while to coap with it. I don't know how your relationship with your mother was, but for most of us our mother is the most important person in the beginning of our life as a child, and she stays with us during most part of our lives. Later on we get girlfriends and wives, but our mother is always in the background and she always stays our mother. Death won't change that fact. The fact that she gave you birth, raised you, fed you, that you stayed in contact and that the memories of her stay. In your mind, in the images you have of her (photographs, drawings or movies - family films?-). We can have a very dear and close family and sometimes friendship relationship with an uncle and cousin too. Loosing them is losing part of yourself, because they are your blood and share genes (dna) with you. But as Jaga so rightfully said, you stil have your wife, children and grandchildren to live for!
Cheers, Pieter
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Post by pieter on Oct 3, 2011 14:29:40 GMT -7
Jaga/Karl/Eric, From time to time I'll stop by and visit. I have doing a lot with Polish Media Issues. We try to correct the false impression that the concentration camps were Polish. We get a number of incorrect media information each day. I help my stepson here in TN who has an online nursery. I just got back from San Diego visiting my grandboys, twins. I am going to Poland for the holidays. It is nice to be missed. I did publish an ebook on Amazon its the translation of my cousins memoirs from Stutthof. Other then that all is well. Finally cooling off here in the south. Nice to hear from you all. Nice to hear from you Jim, it's nice that you dropped by, have a great time in the South! Cheers, Pieter
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Post by karl on Oct 3, 2011 15:18:14 GMT -7
Karl, I am sorry for the loss of your mother, uncle and cousin. Please accept my heartfelt condolences. I witnessed people losing their loved ones by the years, and it took some of them a while to coap with it. I don't know how your relationship with your mother was, but for most of us our mother is the most important person in the beginning of our life as a child, and she stays with us during most part of our lives. Later on we get girlfriends and wives, but our mother is always in the background and she always stays our mother. Death won't change that fact. The fact that she gave you birth, raised you, fed you, that you stayed in contact and that the memories of her stay. In your mind, in the images you have of her (photographs, drawings or movies - family films?-). We can have a very dear and close family and sometimes friendship relationship with an uncle and cousin too. Loosing them is losing part of yourself, because they are your blood and share genes (dna) with you. But as Jaga so rightfully said, you stil have your wife, children and grandchildren to live for! Cheers, Pieter Thank you Pieter for your kindness and compassion. And of course, your self and Jaga are most correct, I do have much to live for with my family. Even though we have a great deal of time in my absence from them, we still are very close. Mother was my life, no matter my location on this earth, I knew were she was, and in so, knew my bearings for where I am. She was my mother of all things, she was my best friend, my confident for we talked of most every thing freely. She spoke of incidents I was not even aware of, one: whilst a very little thing, she carried me whilst walking to the market, and I would sing to her in happiness, for I loved my mother, she was my mother. I think some things worried her, my work was one situation, the other was my intense self reliance, for I had then and to the present, needs not the assistance of others of completion of task..It has brought my self some times though of extreme anxiety of concerns, but that was my will to succeed, and it must be done. I have never considered my self as special, just especially blessed with friends such as your self, Jaga and my friends here. And, a loving family. In spite of my brave sounding, I do have a weakness that hurts, and that is loss. I may run as fast as the wind, but never out run my self, and that is what hurts. Thank you Pieter and all for your support and compassion, I think I need to be alone for a time. Karl
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Post by pieter on Oct 4, 2011 8:32:31 GMT -7
Karl, I am sorry for the loss of your mother, uncle and cousin. Please accept my heartfelt condolences. I witnessed people losing their loved ones by the years, and it took some of them a while to coap with it. I don't know how your relationship with your mother was, but for most of us our mother is the most important person in the beginning of our life as a child, and she stays with us during most part of our lives. Later on we get girlfriends and wives, but our mother is always in the background and she always stays our mother. Death won't change that fact. The fact that she gave you birth, raised you, fed you, that you stayed in contact and that the memories of her stay. In your mind, in the images you have of her (photographs, drawings or movies - family films?-). We can have a very dear and close family and sometimes friendship relationship with an uncle and cousin too. Loosing them is losing part of yourself, because they are your blood and share genes (dna) with you. But as Jaga so rightfully said, you stil have your wife, children and grandchildren to live for! Cheers, Pieter Thank you Pieter for your kindness and compassion. And of course, your self and Jaga are most correct, I do have much to live for with my family. Even though we have a great deal of time in my absence from them, we still are very close. Mother was my life, no matter my location on this earth, I knew were she was, and in so, knew my bearings for where I am. She was my mother of all things, she was my best friend, my confident for we talked of most every thing freely. She spoke of incidents I was not even aware of, one: whilst a very little thing, she carried me whilst walking to the market, and I would sing to her in happiness, for I loved my mother, she was my mother. I think some things worried her, my work was one situation, the other was my intense self reliance, for I had then and to the present, needs not the assistance of others of completion of task..It has brought my self some times though of extreme anxiety of concerns, but that was my will to succeed, and it must be done. I have never considered my self as special, just especially blessed with friends such as your self, Jaga and my friends here. And, a loving family. In spite of my brave sounding, I do have a weakness that hurts, and that is loss. I may run as fast as the wind, but never out run my self, and that is what hurts. Thank you Pieter and all for your support and compassion, I think I need to be alone for a time. Karl You are welcome Karl. I recognise something in your words about your relationship with your mother. I am a loner too, but have realised in my 'later' years as being in my thirties and fourtees now (I am 41 right now), that family is important. I know that I don't have much time left with my parents (mother of November 2 1934 and father of December 18 1927) and that I have to visit them regulary and thank god they visit my region every now and then, when they go to a hotel in the forest area around Arnhem. I love it when they come here and when we walk and cylce through the woods of * the Veluwe. My Dutch grandmother lived in the North of the Veluwe in the small town of ** Epe, so we (the family; my parents, sister and I have a special connection to this Forest area in the East of the Netherlands). My Dutch grandfather unfortunately died of an heart attack in 1962, so I never had the chance to get to know him. My Dutch aunt (sister of my father, and the daughter of my grandad) said I look like or have the stile, mentality and the attitude of my Dutch and Polish grandfathers. I hope she is right, because these were men of character, stile and ethics. I am very sorry never to have met and known my Dutch grandfather, because he is the father of my father. I only know him of pictures in which he is sits in the Heath or behind his desk. He has an interesting face and a kind look. I knew my Polish grandfather as a kid and he made a good impression to me. An old fashionate kind of guy you don't see these days. A Polish patriot, who experianced some professional difficulties, because he refused to be a member of the Communist party, and that damaged his carreer after the Second world war. A conscientious man, a man with high Ethics and a humble gentlemen. Women were fond of him due to his well-mannered, sophisticated and old fashionate Polish Etiquette, his refined taste and way of doing things, and his knowledge and education. He is an example for me although I only have experiance with him until I was six. In 1976 he was killed by a drunken Polish driver who drove against him at a Zebra crossing. My Dutch grandmother who travelled to Poland at the wedding of my parents in 1967 and met my Polish grandparenst, could get along very well with my Grandfather and mother and the Polish uncles and aunts. All educated city people from Poznań and Warsaw. My Dutch grandmother was of the generation which stil could speak three foreign languages next to Dutch, German, English and French. So she had German, English and French conversations at the dinner table of my Polish grandmother. She was very touched or pleased by the sound of the Polish language, which she considered an elegant and civilized language (maybe due to the fact that it has latin and Slav roots, and some people see links between French and Polish). The words and sentences sound nice. It is a pleasent language to hear as a foreigner, even though you don't understand it. Although the troubled past between Poland and Germany often our communication tool with older Polish family members was German. I spoke in German with my Polish grandmother and send her cards I drawed myself with a German letter on it. These were sweet and cosy family times with a warmth, quintessence and value I will remember and cherish all my life. These family visits and connections of the seventees and eightees layed the foundation for my Polish connection. They are the reason I am active on these two Proboards Polish Culture Forums today. I remember the sounds, the landscapes, people, food, architecture, appartments, houses, familymembers, experiances, the non-communist culture and values these people held, the strong connections between family members and friends back then, the Polish mass (my Polish grandmother was a very pious woman. It helped her in hard times during the second world war and during communism), the typical humanistic Polish kind of ironical humor and the solidarity between people back then. My parents like it to visit me and I am fond of their place, the town, peninsula and province of my youth, *** Vlissingen, Walcheren and Zeeland. (The Germans love it to, and the Germans of today are good people. Tourism is a large income source for this province, and the Germans and other tourists made this coastal province wealthy). This summer I saw a cousin of my for the first time of my life in Amsterdam, where she lives. It is a nice woman, and my family is so spread over the Netherlands, Europe and the world that family sometimes is a Global Village (The Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, France, Denmark, South-Africa and the USA), our genes and dna is spread over a long distance. That is the reason that I met this very nice woman (part of the Dutch family branch by the way) for the first time of my life, while my sister met her in South-Africa before me. That's life. I have a very close relationship with my parents and sister. The nuclear family bond is stronger than the extended family bond. I don't know a lot of cousins, nieces, nephews, aunts and uncles very close, because they were always far away. It does not matter whether they are Dutch or Polish family. Both were always long distance connections, while the nuclear family was and is the core of my family life. That's the way it is! Cheers, Pieter * en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veluwen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veluwezoom_National_Park www.hogeveluwe.nl/en/14www.epe.nl/index.php?simaction=content&mediumid=1&pagid=257** www.epe.nl/index.php?simaction=content&mediumid=1&pagid=257*** en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlissingen en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walcherenen.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZeelandIn German: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlissingen www.vlissingen.nl/web/show/id=110322de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walcherenwww.vvvzeeland.nl/de/homeIn Polish: pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlissingenpl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelandia_(prowincja)pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnhempl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geldria
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