What can I do but rave about my oldest and dearest LJ friend?
You first captured my attention with your intelligence, your insight, your broad and reverent spiritual perspective, and your skillful writing. I remain enchanted by your sense of humor, your honesty, your integrity, your quirky interests, your passion for making a difference in the world, and your deep caring for your friends.
I am usually a loner. My dreams very seldom involve other people -- but when I make references to that retreat center I want us to open together, I'm serious. You are someone who I would like to work closely with on special projects over an extended period of time. I think that I have a lot to learn from you, and that we have lots and lots and lots more fun to have together and a lot of growing that we could do in each other's company.
I consider myself very fortunate to be your friend.
I love your wonderful complexity: the many different facets of yourself that you share through LJ that make up the unique beauty that is MT: music, religion (in various expressions), sex, writing, birds, family, job. . . All expressed with wit and humor -- and sometimes pain.
Because there is no one else I can imagine sending a story about a hieros gamos set in the original Battlestar Galactica universe. Because you would getit on every level.
Because I feel like you and Christine and I are three peas in a pod: women who care deeply about spirituality and sexuality and scholarship and who refuse to allow other people to define how we express ourselves in any of those areas.
I feel like I don't know you as well as an individual as I would like to -- and that in itself is something of a compliment coming from an introvert like me.
I like your user name and the icon you use, and what it suggests about who you are and what is important to you.
I would like very much to come over to your house and drink tea (or something stronger) and talk until late at night and get to know you better. (godlyperspectiv too!)
I like the fact that you walk your talk. You make your living supporting organizations that are committed to making a difference. You struggle in your relationships sometimes, like all of us, but you always approach your difficulties from a value perspective as well as an emotional one.
You have a deeply caring heart -- and even if you say you have a hard time being open in your offline life, you have always seemed warm and open here on LJ, always willing to empathize, to encourage, to send a hug. And that means a lot to me.
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branchandroot
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Date: 2005-04-15 02:33 am (UTC)Love to 'tine!
Date: 2005-04-15 03:14 am (UTC)You first captured my attention with your intelligence, your insight, your broad and reverent spiritual perspective, and your skillful writing. I remain enchanted by your sense of humor, your honesty, your integrity, your quirky interests, your passion for making a difference in the world, and your deep caring for your friends.
I am usually a loner. My dreams very seldom involve other people -- but when I make references to that retreat center I want us to open together, I'm serious. You are someone who I would like to work closely with on special projects over an extended period of time. I think that I have a lot to learn from you, and that we have lots and lots and lots more fun to have together and a lot of growing that we could do in each other's company.
I consider myself very fortunate to be your friend.
Re: Love to 'tine!
Date: 2005-04-15 04:21 am (UTC)thank you! i think you would be delightful to work with as well.
...so does that mean you're coming to FP? ;>
*hug*
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Date: 2005-04-15 09:41 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-15 12:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-15 02:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-16 02:55 am (UTC)I love your wonderful complexity: the many different facets of yourself that you share through LJ that make up the unique beauty that is MT: music, religion (in various expressions), sex, writing, birds, family, job. . . All expressed with wit and humor -- and sometimes pain.
Because there is no one else I can imagine sending a story about a hieros gamos set in the original Battlestar Galactica universe. Because you would get it on every level.
Because I feel like you and Christine and I are three peas in a pod: women who care deeply about spirituality and sexuality and scholarship and who refuse to allow other people to define how we express ourselves in any of those areas.
(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-15 08:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-16 02:57 am (UTC)I like your user name and the icon you use, and what it suggests about who you are and what is important to you.
I would like very much to come over to your house and drink tea (or something stronger) and talk until late at night and get to know you better. (
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Date: 2005-04-16 09:38 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-16 05:07 pm (UTC)You have a deeply caring heart -- and even if you say you have a hard time being open in your offline life, you have always seemed warm and open here on LJ, always willing to empathize, to encourage, to send a hug. And that means a lot to me.