Clarrissa thank you for thinking I am a good moderator, and Natali thank you for being a good friend and connection to a world that is alien to me but should not. Gary, thank you for being a courageous man who has not fear about sharing himself. Jess, thank you for being a good mother, a responcible player in your own family/world and sharing that with us. Janice, thank you for sharing and showing by example, how love should be given. Katie, same for you, both you ladies come from a place of loss and inhabit a world where there is beauty to appreciate and nurture. Lynne, thank you for everything. You are like WD-40 whereever you go. I think that riding with you on Highway 1 in Alberta last summer was one of the most cathartic experences I have ever had. Chuck and Rich, if you don't stop picking on each other I m going to send you both to bed with out any supper. Karen, thank you for worriying about your friends, they appreciate it in their own way. Lee, thank you for having a vision, thank you for your steadfast adhearance to the thruth this story has brought your life. Paul, Thank you for watching that PBS special on Charles Shultz, and calling to tell me
. I saved that message a long time. You are a good friend. Jeff, thankyou for sharing and offering your well reasoned views. I don't drink Scotch but when I hear it I think of you. Kelda, who is not Scotch, thank you for bring a continuing presence in my life and world and sharing your adventures.
And to both my Scotts,
This community is the world I cannot have in my real life. I have something like it, but it never felt as real and as connected as this. Lets us all keep trying, no matter where our paths take us. Lets us all be. Let be.