Forgive my approach in this..... ...but I was just wondering how you are. I remember reading from our past talks...it seemed you werent doing well..? I am writting this just to let you know I 've been thinking of you and I hope you are well....take care of yourself. Lyndale.
What kind of thread is this? Do you really want hundreds or maybe thousands of people reading about Tiassa's personal problems? And how do you really think we should reply to something like this? If you are concerned about Tiassa (and I don't doubt you are) you should send her a private message. But just don't submit someone to public humiliation by submitting your private opinions of them on themost open part of this entire site....so, sorry for sounding venomous but what you said struck me in the side like something really venomous and wrong to be written. God will I listen to myself? Now I'm submitting my personal opinion on you... lol
Two cents .... Piffi I thank you, but it would trouble me that you're expending energy on my behalf at this point. To the other, don't worry 'bout your opinion ... that's what these boards are for. (thanx much Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! ) Lyndale I have to admit I was as puzzled as Piffi (with a different reaction) ... I thank you for your kind concern, however. Yes, I'm surviving well enough, can see reasonably well from both eyes again, and since I refuse certain possible remedies in my life, I generally let my head feel how it's going to feel. (Does this mean I can post in your topics again? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! ) But thank you truly for your concern; all is as well as can be expected in this unique time. thanx much, Tiassa Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Lyndale, there's nothing to forgive Really ... the only reason I was caught off guard was that we weren't on the best of terms when last we communicated. To the other, I didn't think you were particularly asking to be bored with the details of my life, which, recently, has been interesting enough in the last couple of months, since they're convoluted, intensely perspective-dependent, and well, if I ever choose to and then manage to organize them in any coherent yet true expression, I have my bestseller. (Really, notice that there is no rule that says anything has to happen in a bestseller; it's just that I'm the only person who understands what makes my life interesting--well, I have a cat, but isn't that expected?) As to the edge this topic managed to acquire, I'm well sympathetic to Piffi's intervention. But one thing this forum is good for is that it constantly reminds me of a couple of my fundamental assumptions in life; I can't allow myself the same reaction, which is good in this case because I truly don't think you were aiming for harm, Lyndale, and I perceive none surrounding it. I suppose it would be worthwhile to advise Piffi that I'm actually male, but I don't know whether or not that changes anything; as I noted, I'm well sympathetic to the response, but it's because I see several valid processes that can result in such a response while obliging myself by nature and experience to start from a different square one. Or something. Peace, all around. Really and truly. Don't make me get out my Balinese tambourine; I have no rhythm ... Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! thanx, Tiassa Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Hiya Tiassa ... Trying to read between the lines. Are you O.K. pal? What do you mean "see with both eyes"? What is this unique time in your travel? I truly care. You are a deep, deep, warm soul. Are you in trouble? I understand, and can comment on the carnival ride that is our lives. I wish you well. Take care
I'm baffled, to be honest I'm baffled by the sudden interest in my condition, but I want everyone to know that I appreciate it greatly. Stretch: I have to admit, this topic is a slight roller-coaster; on the one hand, I love the attention; to the other, I don't know how to deal with it. Thus, the short-form, since I don't want to be opportunistic in my expoundings: * What do you mean "see with both eyes"? About the last time I had a round of debate with Lyndale, I had been diagnosed with that vague infection bacterial conjunctivitis, which then prompted yet another round of minor tests to determine its cause (still unknown); the symptom, of course, being that one eye was red and swollen nearly shut. Gatofloxicin (Tequin) was my big gun for that fight, and mighty effective, I might add. Also floxacin (Ocuflox) eye drops for the direct application, but between the two, there wasn't much left in my body along the lines of bacteria. * What is this unique time in your travel? The living scenery of the world is as uniquely interesting as any time I have observed in my life. Socially speaking, my nation is suffering through the most dramatic military encounter in sixty years, and the perspective WTC-9/11 offers on Americans is most fascinating. Of less lethal affairs, popular music is undergoing one of its better phases, and network television may have hit on an all-time quality low. Personally speaking, the times are just as unique; I'm writing fiction again, my latest attempt after a months-long drought; I get to play the, "am-I-falling-in-love" game for the next little bit (and for the first time in ... years); I'm cracking open part of my years-long relationship to marijuana; and a longtime friend of mine is finally calling me out on my psyche as relates to my self-perceived inefficacy in the world. High society? Fashion? Who needs it? My sequestered corner of the Universe is as grooved to my sensibilities as it has been since high school. But, alas, I refuse to permit myself "too much" happiness; with thousands of my countrymen dead, and with rumors of wars rumbling in the darkening skies, one must bear in mind that the present happiness is merely illusion trenched into a battlefield of spirit--I've flatlined emotionally in response to societal events, which has given me a strangely removed perspective (the one that keeps me screaming against war, even at a time like this), but I don't expect that dam to hold for much longer. In the meantime, I'm trying to enjoy the brighter moments inside my skull, accept the coming human carnage, and consider whether or not I really am that selfish. It's a pretty damn cool place to be, but the gravity of this mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world cannot be ignored. Thus, I am doing as well as I can be, given the considerations to which I oblige myself. Hmm ... this is the short-form? But your kind words maketh me glow, and I can only thank you for your concerns. I'm always, always, always in trouble, Stretch, but I'm not sure I'm any more so than my neighbors--I would assert that the difference is my awareness of this state, but who's to say my awareness is either definitive or even genuine, and just how presumptuous would I be to claim that my neighbors are not aware? (Certes, my opinion holds that their actions demonstrate their slumber, but that's merely my opinion.) My, look at me prattle on ... Truly, sir your kind sentiment means much to me. Take comfort, then, and know that I carry on as we all do. Be good ... especially to yourself; one cannot give to another any gift which the one does not already possess. peace, harmony, and jazz odysseys, Tiassa Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
