hi all i am hereby consciously committing two cardinal cyber-sins: 1. repeating joan's entire message from tip to toe 2. adding a "me-too!" at the end why am i doing this? because i think it is important why else? read or delete it is your, gentle reader, prerogative janet At 14:00 1999/02/03 -0600, joan snyder wrote: >Hello Fellow list-survivors: First of all, Janet, welcome back-please >don't ever stay away that long again; love ya! Second, I've been called >many things in my life but this an historic 1st-I'm referring to Bob >Chapman's post & being called a right-winger!!! My old hippie blood is >having a riot with that one altho I don't suppose you meant me in >particular, but I must plead guilty (sorry Barb-love you too!) to >mentioning God in my posts:))) I have to because He is a full-partner in >my marriage, in my disease & in my family. I try very hard not to preach >about something that is to me very personal, but to avoid speaking His >name because it is deemed politically incorrect would be like avoiding >speaking the names of my husband & children...it is just a fact of my >life! So, to those of you who don't share my faith-so what???!!! I don't >get it...what's the big deal?? I can tell you that my view is to >CELEBRATE DIVERSITY. We have so many things to be thankful for-this >wonderful forum where our diversity can be explored and made for all to >see-a thing of joy & humanity! I am overcoming alot of self-doubts to >post this (I usually don't like to get involved in anything >confrontational). I too, miss Dennis & Judith-but it's going to become >alot more empty, I'm afraid, if we don't just GET OVER IT!!! and get >back to the business of being caring human beings to each other. > >-- >Joan E. Snyder (47-8-10) <[log in to unmask]> >"In the depths of winter I finally learned there >was in me an invincible summer" Albert Camus >http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/snyder/page1.htm > yowsa! janet your pwp webring sibling janet paterson - 51 now /41 dx /37 onset - almonte/ontario/canada http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/janet/index.htm [log in to unmask]