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<DIV>I, too, am glad you’re back. Now that you’ve had your posting break,
we need to take a coffee break.</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=ngier006@gmail.com
href="mailto:ngier006@gmail.com">Nicholas Gier</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, December 29, 2011 4:11 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=kjajmix1@msn.com href="mailto:kjajmix1@msn.com">keely
emerinemix</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] oops</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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should have gone through to the Vision, but apparently not.<BR><BR>Hi
Keeley,<BR><BR>Welcome back! You have been sorely missed. Strange, I don't
remember a single offense you have committed. <BR><BR>Always articulate,
passionate, and too the point. But most important: A Christian who actually
follows her Savior's example. We love you, Keeley!<BR><BR>Happy New Year
to all you Visionaries,<BR><BR>Nick<BR><BR>A society grows great when old men
plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.<BR><BR>-Greek
proverb<BR><BR><BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 12:26 AM, keely emerinemix <SPAN
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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 <A
href="http://www.keely-prevailingwinds.com"
target=_blank>www.keely-prevailingwinds.com</A>. <BR><BR><BR><BR><FONT
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