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Thank you so much for making this marvellous movie, and welcome back.

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Aug 11, 2023Liked by Gary Sharpe, Visceral Adventure

Wonderful, Tonika! I'm so impressed that you valued the feedback you received enough to create this antidote... it shows so much receptivity and a true desire to serve. Now if we could just get Pfizer to adopt that kind of integrity...😂

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Aug 10, 2023Liked by Gary Sharpe, Visceral Adventure

Beautifully done! Wonderful healthy thoughts!

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Aug 10, 2023Liked by Gary Sharpe, Visceral Adventure

One edit. Remove chocolate from your things not to do list. If I don't have chocolate I will have to transcend this mortal coil.

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Aug 10, 2023Liked by Gary Sharpe, Visceral Adventure

Welcome back, Tonica! Hope it was a great trip. You were missed.

This is so well done and appreciated; a natural collaboration.

Look forward to hearing bout the adventures.

BTW- I could imagine an anti-dote to anxiety series...

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Singin' in caves, wowee! That's the beans--never been in a cave (but makes me think'a Huck Finn...an' bears!) Happy yer back in the saddle agin' Tonika, an' thanks fer introducin' yer friend Gary so eloquently an' visually too! I will take a further gander indeed.

Sounds like ya had some real adventures (visceral an' fun too!)--an' that yer travels did ya good! I think gettin' outta the Dis-jointed Dis-United States fer a bird's eye view'd away from it all'd be absolutely therapeutic! (Meanwhile herebouts it's been like Nietzsche's "eternal return"--msm playin' the same records, CreepyJoe trippin' on the same steps ('er missteps...) Whatever ya missed 'll come back again "double-plus," an' the rinse n' repeat beat goes on. ) So agin', glad yer back, it's still Bedlam!

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Aug 10, 2023Liked by Gary Sharpe, Visceral Adventure

Woohoo! You are the Collab Queen Tonika. Having said that: travel diaries asap please.

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Aug 10, 2023Liked by Gary Sharpe, Visceral Adventure

Welcome back! I look forward to hearing more about your adventures.

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Welcome back, Tonika!! And thank you and Gary for this healing balm. What a beautiful way to celebrate your re-entry.

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Aug 14, 2023Liked by Gary Sharpe, Visceral Adventure

kudos to both of you and welcome back. mi amiga all sounds so biblical to me. So it must be true.

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Aug 13, 2023·edited Aug 13, 2023Liked by Gary Sharpe, Visceral Adventure

I can go along with most of this and thank you but I'll agree to disagree with you guys about 'horror and thrillers'. I'm not much into the horror genre but thrillers...? Storytelling is crucial to one's mental health and catharsis, which hopefully comes with it, is instrumental in our healing. I know I have a vested interest in saying this because it is part of what I do but we are nothing without our stories. I'm sure I've quoted Muriel Rukeyser on these pages before: 'The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.'

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Aug 12, 2023Liked by Gary Sharpe, Visceral Adventure

Thank you, Gary and Tonika! Happy to say that I I checked quite a few of these wonderful and true suggestions. :)

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Aug 12, 2023Liked by Gary Sharpe, Visceral Adventure

Beautiful! I think my favorite was the man in a suit dancing on the beach - the element of 'unexpected' because of the contrast of his attire with the setting and his joyous movement, it grabs the attention.

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Aug 11, 2023Liked by Gary Sharpe, Visceral Adventure

awesome video!

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Aug 10, 2023Liked by Gary Sharpe, Visceral Adventure

You're so talented.. what wonderful compliment the visual addition makes... can't wait for details of the adventures we all need to add richness to our lives... bravo encore!! <3

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woah! purdy crazy yer own mind also channeled the ghost of "Injun Joe!"--an' that sign too! (but it duz sound fun!) I've been in a "cavern" (much bigger than a cave)--Howe Caverns--an' they are amazin'--just wondrous bein' in a space in the earth, dark 'cept for lanterns (now LEDs...sigh, 't'ain't the same...), creepy but cool as heck (an' how!)-- Seein' all the absurd-ditties 'round us is the only way I kin wake up an' put my socks on (an' yes, it's an Auntie Dote too!) Plus it's good fer yer heart (laughter that is!)

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