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<DIV>wonderful news...welcome back</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=kjajmix1@msn.com
href="mailto:kjajmix1@msn.com">keely emerinemix</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, December 29, 2011 12:26 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] oops</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<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 www.keely-prevailingwinds.com. <BR><BR><BR><BR><FONT
color=#8064a2><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" size=3><FONT
face=Verdana>Keely<BR>www.keely-prevailingwinds.com<BR></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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