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hi all At 11:43 1999/08/04 -0700, barb wrote, in part: >Carole, et al.... > >First, I'm NOT trying to belittle the pig, nor >those list members who've been posting pig >jokes and comments. The following is NOT >meant as an attack on either pigs or people >who post here on the List about pigs... unfortunately, that's the way it comes across, at least to me, barb but whether we have a list kefuffle about pigs or background screen colours or 'splitting the list' or snake oil or 'humour' or levis or .... in retrospect it appears to me that the cyber siblings complaining about whatever the keffuffle of the day or week is might just possibly be using their complaint to 'vent' other frustrations i have done it myself there's nothing wrong with that at all we do what we can with what we know at the time the most significant thing i've learned lately is we cannot change the way others behave we can only change the way we react to that behaviour i have a choice as to whether i feel [a] angry [b] shocked [c] dismayed [d] delighted [e] indifferent in my response to your message each one of us can make the same choice about each one of our messages to the tune of that cowboy theme ole whatziz name hiyo silver and away: deedeelete deedeelete deedeeletedeetdeet deedeelete deedeelete deedeeletedeetdeet etc etc janet mulling but humming mist-lom janet paterson 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset snail-mail: PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada website: a new voice <http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/> e-mail: <[log in to unmask]>