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Well, this sucks.
I come and go all the time in different venues, with no notice. Sometimes I'm gone for weeks or months, sometimes years. It's like we're children wandering on a beach and stopping to admire the roundness of some pebble or the luster of some shell, forget how we got where we are or why we started our wanderings in the first place.
Hope to see you again some time!
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Fotuna rota volvitur.
I can only say:
per ma credensa,
de pretz garnitz
vostra tenesa
e de bels ditz
senes failhensa;
de faitz grazitz
tenetz semensa;
siensa,
sufrensa
avetz
e coneissensa;
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Dear Maverick,
I hope it wasn't the deterioration of the former high standards of the board that influenced your decision to take leave, rather, I hope that you will be applying your time and talents towards writing the world's greatest novel.
No one I've ever read has your seemingly effortless skill in making literary art out of the mundane.
Milum.
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milum, I must assure you that his leaving has nothing to do with how the board is or isn't. And I might add that a comparatively new person has looked through the old threads, and feels that we've had some just as good in recent times; and that perhaps we "oldsters" are more missing particular personalities than we are missing actual quality. So, although I too have a sense of nostalgia for "how things used to be", I think that it may be a helpful thing if we lessen how much we lament the good old days, and begin to recognize--and to create! --some good NEW days. For example, Recording my thanks.
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Two friends were walking through
the desert. During some point of the journey, they
had an argument, and one friend slapped the other
one in the face. The one who got slapped was hurt,
but without saying anything, he wrote in the sand:
Today my best friend slapped me in the face.
They kept on walking, until they found an oasis,
where they decided to take a bath. The one who had
been slapped got stuck in the mire and started
drowning, but his friend saved him. After he
recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone:
Today my best friend saved my life.
The friend, who had slapped and saved his best
friend, asked him, "After I hurt you, you wrote in
the sand, and now, you write on a stone, why?"
The other friend replied: "When someone hurts us,
we should write it down in sand, where the winds of
forgiveness can erase it away, but when someone
does something good for us, we must engrave it in
stone where no wind can ever erase it.
Learn to write your hurts in the sand and to carve
your blessings in stone.
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Geoff, a lovely person posted that there is a "flankstone"; if there were such a thing as heartstone, I'd have a plaque made of it affixed to my heart, and engraved on it would be your name...
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> "...my best friend..."
Beautiful words - thanks Geoff.
............and Mav, if you're checking these goodbyes........goodbye boyo.
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