<font>This should have gone through to the Vision, but apparently not.<br><br>Hi Keeley,<br>
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Welcome back! You have been sorely missed. Strange, I don't remember a single offense you have committed. <br>
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Always articulate, passionate, and too the point. But most important: A
Christian who actually follows her Savior's example. We love you,
Keeley!<br>
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Happy New Year to all you Visionaries,<br>
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Nick<br>
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.<br>
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-Greek proverb<br>
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</font><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 12:26 AM, keely emerinemix <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kjajmix1@msn.com">kjajmix1@msn.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Well, what a clumsy re-introduction to Vision 2020 -- I sort of forgot how to send a post to the list, so sorry for the blank email you all just got from me. <br><br>It's been about a year since I left Vision, both as a reader and as an active participant. By late fall of 2010, I had gotten discouraged by the tone and direction the discussions sometimes were marked with, and it was fairly easy, although not at all fun, for me to see that I had occasionally been one of the offenders, or at least not always a positive contributor. But the truth is that I miss the dialogue, I miss hearing from and about many of you, and I think we can all agree that there's a whole lot of stuff going on these days that needs to be hashed out in the public square. I've been blogging up a storm, of course, except for during the holidays, but I'm feeling a bit disconnected from my home of nearly ten years, and so I plan on rejoining. <br>
<br>Yeah, I know. A scatter of applause, a murmur of groans, and, predominately, the empty sound of nothin' but crickets . . . <br><br>Anyway, I haven't mellowed nor moved to the right in my politics, I'm still "religious in that way," as my aunt says, and I'm as passionate in my beliefs as I always have been. Perhaps more. But a truly difficult 2011 -- I won't be a bit unhappy to see the New Year come -- has, I think, made me a gentler person, and if I can remain so on Vision, then . . . I'm back. And if not, I'm gone. <br>
<br>Hope all of you are well, and I look forward to jumping back into the fray! And the blog I mentioned earlier, by the way, is Prevailing Winds; if you're interested in a
Christian defense of feminism, racial/social/economic/LGBT equality, and
what I believe to be a Biblical analysis of other issues that you
perhaps haven't gotten from purveyors and practitioners of that ol' time
religion, check it out at <a href="http://www.keely-prevailingwinds.com" target="_blank">www.keely-prevailingwinds.com</a>. <br><br><br><br><font color="#8064a2"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><font face="Verdana">Keely<br>
<a href="http://www.keely-prevailingwinds.com" target="_blank">www.keely-prevailingwinds.com</a><br></font></font></font> </div></div>
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