I have received many messages and posts of support from 'catters, people who have become good friends over the past few months. One of them is the man who started this thread. I thought that "while I all alone beweep my outcast state": and I realize that just ain't so. I am not alone. Fact is, there are more good people in this world than bad people, and lots of those good people are here.

My blessings and recent good news.

My daughters both entered a Karate tournament recently. They both took gold medals for pattern and one took gold for fighting. They learned some of that from dad. They also learned it's better to talk than fight, but that sometimes ya gotta do whatcha gotta do.

I learned that people care about others very deeply, even if it doesn't show on the surface.

I learned that we never really know what has happen to shape the thoughts of other people, and that sometimes we can't change that. But, we can change the way WE feel.

I leaned that love is NOT a four letter word.

I learned.

Bruce M