<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>To Keely, a hearty . . .</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: medium; "><span>"Welcome Back"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: medium; "><span><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/songs/Welcome_Back.mp3" x-apple-data-detectors="true"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/songs/Welcome_Back.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/songs/Welcome_Back.mp3</a></a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: medium; "><span><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/songs/Welcome_Back.mp3" x-apple-data-detectors="true"></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: medium;"> <br></span><div>Seeya later, Moscow.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Spokane, Washington</div><div><br></div><div>"If not us, who?</div><div>If not now, when?"</div><div><br></div><div>- Unknown</div></div><div><br>On Dec 29, 2011, at 12:26 AM, keely emerinemix <<a href="mailto:kjajmix1@msn.com">kjajmix1@msn.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">
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">www.keely-prevailingwinds.com</a>. <br><br><br><br><font style="" color="#8064a2"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><font style="" face="Verdana">Keely<br><a href="http://www.keely-prevailingwinds.com">www.keely-prevailingwinds.com</a><br></font></font></font> </div>
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