I love the whole mix, myself, as a total package of options.

But there are days, speaking now just for myself and not for the people whose upsets I understand and try to avoid restimulating them-- days when I love to come in using the BS: filter and just... see... music. It's such a relief. Not relief from Mudcat-- but relief from day to day life with all its tangles.

Sometimes I just need that help to focus on the music, and let music do... it's job... for me. Music as refuge.

Would I LIKE to be better at ignoring what takes me away from that healing property of the music? Sure. I hope I get better at that every day, just as I hope I grow in other ways, every day.

Do I appreciate the tools we have, though, to help me get what I need, and give what I can in music, even despite my lack of strength in avoiding upsets I may not be up to handling? Yes, I do, I really, really do.

And I would like to see us give that gift to those who need it, when they need it, by using that prefix for non-music threads.

~Susan