Oh Dennis! This is too much! My selfish response is DON'T LEAVE US ! We DO need you! My head tells me you know best what you need to do---but you must know I am VERY sad to read your post.......first Judith, now you---if you think you GIVE nothing, you are, my friend, sadly mistaken. I was going to send this offlist, as I did to Judith, but decided to send it to the list, FWIW. Dennis wrote in part: >On the 17th July 1997 I wrote: SNIPPED . As for me, if the day ever >comes when I feel that not only am I not getting anything >from being here, but ALSO that I am not giving anything >to the list, I shall fold my tents, say my goodbyes and >leave. Why would I stay? Why would you want me to?" > >Well I guess that time is here. SNIPPED Camilla Flintermann Oxford,OH http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/camilla/one.htm <[log in to unmask]> "In all beginnings, endings lie enfolded, implicit and invisible as roots." from: "Leaving the Garden"--CHF