I want you all here to know how much your replies mean to me. I haven't been here in a while, i think because the Iraq war drew me away in 2003 and I've been reading the soldier's blogs and the writings of the newly freed- speech Iraqis since then. But I asked Marianne to please post my epitaph about my son yesterday when i got the news, knowing what a respected and longtime member of this forum Marianne is, and with all that i had to handle yesterday, i knew i would have to put off coming to the forum until later when things settled down and i could have some time to write and really be here.i wanted to say that i don't think i ever told each of you how profoundly i value each of your contributions here; the depth of thinking, the insight, the powerful truths i have taken from all of you in our discussions here. as i see each one of you put up your posts in response to my news, i feel brought back to reality, grounded and found and conducted back among extraordinary people who were treasured back when we were premies, but more so by magnitudes, since we left it and found our own minds and thoughts again. there is greatness here. i am in the company of amazing and meaningful souls that i probably would not have found in life, had we not taken these paths. i gaze in each of your eyes and salute you for what you are. to me, to each other, and to yourself.
it is sad that my son did not live to come join this convocation. it was the kind of thing i think he yearned for in life, and he would have been the equal of any of us.
again, i thank you all. if i don't post, it doesn't mean i've left. write to me at my direct address, or give me a heads-up if you think there's a discussion going on, here, that you think i shouldn't miss.
they say that petty minds talk about other people. average minds talk about events. great minds discuss ideas.
perhaps greater minds still, discuss the mind itself.
i beleive i am in the company of the latter, by knowing you all.
janet in venice
mensabrains@webtv.t
