hi all "what i think i want to see is what i get" WITIWSIWIG some people see pain in what i write the pain may be in the words i use it is not in me if i were in the middle of feeling that pain i would be almost incapable of expressing it in anyway the expression of pain is healthy a way to lessen it to melt it away my writings tend to be less immediate than that the pain in my writings is remembered thought over digested related compared and then simply described it is the description that 'jumps out' of me not the pain increasingly through the months and years i only feel more joy and gratitude descriptions of which also 'jump out' of me our perceptions tend to limit us to what we fear what we are worried about viz my seeing 'flaws' first as the ultimate construction site critic viz my seeing only 'doom and gloom' future possibilities as predicted by the accountants but just because we perceive the world as fearful and joyless does not mean the joy is not there it is everywhere waiting for us to stumble on it wipe the smut from our glasses and say oho! until that smut is cleared up we will see a gloomy world and assume that everyone else does too and assume that their reactions to things must be the same as ours would be but they are not and things beheld through clear lenses are incomprehensible and impossible and insane to those looking through murky lenses looking through murky lenses is not a crime it is an error which is re-thinkable and fixable all the joy and all the love in this world that we fear is lost or lacking isn't it never went anywhere it's been right beside all of us waiting patiently for the nexy murine shipment janet janet paterson 53 now / 44 dx cd / 43 onset cd / 41 dx pd / 37 onset pd tel: 613 256 8340 url: "http://www.geocities.com/janet313/" email: [log in to unmask] smail: POBox 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada