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hey charles-

may one assume by your dis-clamer, that our tax-dollars are making it possible for you to chime-in here again? if so, i feel that i'm finally getting my money's worth. i've been off-line myself since the mack conference- learning again to drive a stick-shift (6-speed), attending some other conferences, and generally getting my "house" in order, in more ways than one.

and kenneth, you and your fellow "maple leafers" bring a wonderful energy yourselves to this arena- keep up the good work.

this thread began with a rather preachy piece on my part, and experienced a surge during the forum high-point which occured around the 4th of july, and i've always felt it needed it's own dis-claimer, so here goes.

the original "address", from my perspective, occured on feb. 22nd, 1997.
at that time, it was the closest i've probably ever come to an "automatic writing" experience", on a computer that was little more than a glorified word-processor; in fact, i had to copy it to floppy disk, and take it to work, just to get a hard copy. there, a secretary liked it, and did some editing magic, and it was published in two newspapers, and a magazine at the time.

the second revision occured right after returning from the "healing the atlantean wound" cruise, in 2004, on the suggestion of a gal from tucson, and so this version, re-visited, is actually the third re-vision.

what i've always noticed about it, is that it actually is a sort of "tool". i suppose all budding writers have their tools in their portfolios, and this one seems to have the ability to bring out, or reveal ones awareness, depending on how they respond, or not respond to it. no where yet, has the response been as enthusiastic as here, but i suppose that's to be expected, given this crowd.

a little voice in my head promted my posting of it that morning up at the big hotel, and it's been a pleasure to share it with y'all.

bob