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Welcome back, Keely. I've missed your posts.<br>
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Paul<br>
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On 12/29/2011 12:26 AM, keely emerinemix wrote:
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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 class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.keely-prevailingwinds.com">www.keely-prevailingwinds.com</a>. <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.keely-prevailingwinds.com">www.keely-prevailingwinds.com</a><br>
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