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I would like to hear from each of you, especially the ones still in conflict, something positive about the other people here. If you have had a harsh word, or even if you havn't, think of something you like about that person and say it here.
Mutual respect starts with earning it. So lets try to earn our own now. It's not hard.
Show others how big a person you really are. Set an example for others. This is the real way to help others. You lead by example. Their is no more powerful way to tell others that this truely is "A Place of Safety".
Thanks for listening.
Kevin
"Be excellent to each other, and, party on dudes"!
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These are not people I am in conflict with, nor have I had any ill feelings about at all. But this is what I think of just a few of my family here.
Warren is an elequent person that posts with caring and concern to all. He seems to put his own pain aside to try and help others.
Brian is such a caring soul. He may have trouble saying it but his heart is as big as all outdoors.
Lenny is such a beutiful man. I miss him so much. His way with words and his view of the world makes me a better person.
smith has a maturity far beyond his years. He often does not realize his own greatness, but I know most of us see it clearly.
Timmy .... what more can I say. He has already earned the respect and love of all of us. He is a beutiful soul.
Please no that those I did not mention are not marginal in my eyes at all. These are just examples of what I feel. Their are so many that I could type for days about all of you.
Much Love to all of you,
Kevin
"Be excellent to each other, and, party on dudes"!
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warren c. e. austin
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Location: Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
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... whilst Bell Canada seems to be in no great hurry about loosing me as a customer, it could happen at any moment.
The one person I would dearly want to able to leave here knowing, that he knew my opinion of him, is you K. C.
Your "no nonsense" goodness simply shines through in all endeavours that you grace with your interest.
Keep it up bud. It has been my pleasure to be able to say I have known you!
Warren C. E. Austin
Toronto, Canada
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"Be excellent to each other, and, party on dudes"!
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
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Not because of those one includes, but because of those one leaves out. So I am going to opt to single one perosn out and allow the remainder simply to know that I chose the person I feel represents them far better than even he believes.
My example, for he is just that, an example, is a person who has had troubles in his life that have scarred him and nearly cost him his life. Which of us does not identify with that to greater or lesser extent?
He is a fierce friend and ally.
He is a gentle person, with so much untapped love inside him that it hurts. He hides it because I think he is nervous about showing it.
Like so many of us he is a Don Quixote. Find so many of us a windmill, and we will tilt at it. And he is the same.
Like so many of us he may even be gay. Or may not. But he knows there is something here for those who find their orientation sometimes difficult.
So far this could be almost any of us.
This is why I have chosen him. Not "above" all others, but to represent all others. Not all of us share all his characteristics, but all of us share more than one with him. I wonder if I need to name him.
You see, what I hope is that each of you is reading this and wondering if it might indeed be you.
It might well be you.
In so many ways it is you.
But, when I started this I had a single person in mind.
I will, I think, now be very aggravating. You will need to find the name, if you want to and need to, in the next message.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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So, Rob. I wonder if this was a total surprise?
Yes, it is our own Don quixote, Rob.
Now, Rob, please don't spoil the surprise for the others just yet. And don't let it go to your head either 
I see you as a "poster child" for the generations here that hurt and strive to get through the hurt. Not "unique" but "individual" instead.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Yes it is. I've been sitting here staring at this post trying to figure out what to say. Like you, is hard to just pick one. So here goes.
I've gotta go with someone I haven't chatted with in quite a while. I don't think I've ever told him how much he's helped me. You wrote a letter for me, and gave me some freedom to move on. Though things haven't worked the way I'd have liked them to, I have moved on. Is your caring and thoughts that helped me.
Thanks Neph.
Brian
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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"Be excellent to each other, and, party on dudes"!
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It would be a sad thing if anyone left this board. There is just no way for individual human beings to get along 100% of the time!
I spent many years at sea on research vessels, some times for months at a time, confined to that small space under stresses that few could fathum with people I may not have really liked that much and people I liked a lot. No matter what though, there were times I had to swollow my pride an even strongly held opinions bite my tounge and go to my only refuge, my state room and just let it slide and cool down.
I digress but let me tell you a little story that did happen.
When I was young my father had a sailboat and my two older brother and I and a friend or two would get to transit the boat from place to place for my rents vacations. There was one occasion when bringing the boat back to home port that we went through days of very bad weather and seas, taking swells form stem to stern, if you were at the helm you would literaly be holding to the wheel for dear life as the swells would lift you bodily and try an wash you over board, just to have a hot cup of coffee you would have to hold the pot on the gimbaled stove to brew other wise you would be licking it off the sole. To make a long story short, we needed reffuge and rest so made for the nearest port in a storm as they say and while there, I to this day am not sure what happen, but the night after making port I was in the salon and heard crashing up on deck. I rushed up to find my two older brothers locked in combat, Tom a friend with us on this trip commly got a bucket of water and soaked em down real good. Two drowned rat broke apart and after a few moment started grining and laughing.
To this day I don't know what that fight was about I don't think they did either.
A few years ago the three of us got together for the last time. We fondly remembered the good times and laughed about this very incident.
One is gone now and not just because he decided to turn a switch or disconect.
Think about it guys there is a loveing soft spot in all your crusty souls out there or you wouldn't be here.
Forgive otheres, forgive yourselves and keep on loving one another because it transindes LIKE!
People will tell you where they've gone
They'll tell you where to go
But till you get there yourself you never really know
Where some have found their paradise
Other's just come to harm
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Bill S. Preston Esquire and Ted Theodore Logon ....
Be excellent to each other ..... and ...
Party On Dudes!!!!!!!!
"Be excellent to each other, and, party on dudes"!
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Thanks for the e-mail Kevin it really brightened my day...rob
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Thank you
Please know too, that I will make every effort to heal the damage that any misunderstanding has caused between us. If I have offended, I am sorry. If I came across other than I intened, I apologize.
And I will try to make it up in the future.
{{{Kevin holds his arms open for a big hug}}}
Much love and happiness to you,
Kevin
"Be excellent to each other, and, party on dudes"!
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Neph
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Registered: January 1970
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Oh, Kevin. I come here after a few days away from the MB and find all this backlog... 
There are so many people here whose friendship (and love) has brightened my life that I feel embarrassed to mention them in case I omit someone. Even though I don't get online nearly enough to maintain the contacts as I should it's good to know that when I do get online we can just "continue from where we left off" as if nothing had happened.
Brian, you are a good soul and you know that I will help whenever I can. David, thank you for being so friendly towards me. Kevin, God bless you. Tim the Canuck, I love you. smith, you know how much I love you so I'm not even going to try to say. Chris, who always thinks of me before I think of him (blush). Oli - because you are so special to me. And Tim, who, over the years, has become one of the best friends I have ever had. (All these people visit this board, though many of them rarely post. I wonder why )
Please, people, use this link and think of Tim: http://members.shaw.ca/high5/01abouben.html
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Neph
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Registered: January 1970
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How could I forget dear Mike? - who travelled halfway across his country just to meet me and have lunch with me. I love you, Mike.
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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I accept it, but do not feel I deserve it.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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You are a big reason why this is such a great place.
Stay happy.
And much Love to you,
Kevin
"Be excellent to each other, and, party on dudes"!
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