posted July 14, 2015 03:23 AM            

Don't ask me why I'm here now; I wouldn't be able to answer. One of the things I've learned over the years is when to let the Spirit move me, even when my rational mind and conscious will have nothing to do with it. I never thought I'd post here again, and yet... and yet...

I had an interesting thought earlier tonight, while thinking about this post. It occurred to me that if someone were to write a biography of my life, this site would take up a significant portion of the story.

I know some of you. And some of you know me. (I could also probably quote Bilbo Baggins here: "I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.")

For better or worse, Randall, this place is a part of me. One it seems I'm not quite ready to leave behind entirely. Will I ever? I don't know; predicting the future has never been and probably will never be a game I care to play.

I also don't dwell much on the past. But I'll tell you that the recent past -- the last almost nine years -- has changed me significantly. I'm still me (the good parts, anyway), but I've come back a little older, a little wiser, a lot more matured. I'm a lot more patient, a lot more tolerant of the differences between myS-elf and others, a lot less anxious to convince anyone of anything, a lot less eager to change the world. In fact, I understand quite well why Lao-Tzu called attempts to change the world "monstrous". I'm happy being a wave now; I don't need to be the wind that moves the entire ocean.

To anyone whose feelings I've hurt in the past, I am truly sorry. And to those who've hurt me -- and hurt me deeply, some of you have -- I've either forgiven you or I'm still working toward that goal. Either way, I'm far too old now to care. Your feelings are yours, and my feelings are mine, and both of us have a right to them. Typical of my sign, I just don't have it in me to actively hold grudges. And I don't need to judge people, and take those judgements personally, the way I used to. Life finally beat this one into me, too: we're all doing what we can with what we've got to work with. And browbeating people never helps them... or me.

So, let's stick to the Eternal Now, shall we? (Which is all there ever really is anyway.) And in the now, I hope my being here is a good thing for both of us. I've really, really missed some of you. juniperb once asked me, "how can you not love and embrace these wonderful Knowflakes?"

How, indeed?

I remain,
your friend in Spirit,
Seven
(the artist formerly known as Rogue Guru,
formerly known as paras,
formerly known as Meercatt)

posted July 15, 2015 11:25 AM            

LL's always have their home here, even if they go away for a bit!

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posted July 16, 2015 11:53 PM            

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Originally posted by the7thsphere:
Hello again, Knowflakes.

Don't ask me why I'm here now; I wouldn't be able to answer. One of the things I've learned over the years is when to let the Spirit move me, even when my rational mind and conscious will have nothing to do with it. I never thought I'd post here again, and yet... and yet...

I had an interesting thought earlier tonight, while thinking about this post. It occurred to me that if someone were to write a biography of my life, this site would take up a significant portion of the story.

I know some of you. And some of you know me. (I could also probably quote Bilbo Baggins here: "I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.")

For better or worse, Randall, this place is a part of me. One it seems I'm not quite ready to leave behind entirely. Will I ever? I don't know; predicting the future has never been and probably will never be a game I care to play.

I also don't dwell much on the past. But I'll tell you that the recent past -- the last almost nine years -- has changed me significantly. I'm still me (the good parts, anyway), but I've come back a little older, a little wiser, a lot more matured. I'm a lot more patient, a lot more tolerant of the differences between myS-elf and others, a lot less anxious to convince anyone of anything, a lot less eager to change the world. In fact, I understand quite well why Lao-Tzu called attempts to change the world "monstrous". I'm happy being a wave now; I don't need to be the wind that moves the entire ocean.

To anyone whose feelings I've hurt in the past, I am truly sorry. And to those who've hurt me -- and hurt me deeply, some of you have -- I've either forgiven you or I'm still working toward that goal. Either way, I'm far too old now to care. Your feelings are yours, and my feelings are mine, and both of us have a right to them. Typical of my sign, I just don't have it in me to actively hold grudges. And I don't need to judge people, and take those judgements personally, the way I used to. Life finally beat this one into me, too: we're all doing what we can with what we've got to work with. And browbeating people never helps them... or me.

So, let's stick to the Eternal Now, shall we? (Which is all there ever really is anyway.) And in the now, I hope my being here is a good thing for both of us. I've really, really missed some of you. juniperb once asked me, "how can you not love and embrace these wonderful Knowflakes?"

How, indeed?

I remain,
your friend in Spirit,
[b]Seven
(the artist formerly known as Rogue Guru,
formerly known as paras,
formerly known as Meercatt)

[/B]

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