just ignore and let this one die

Thank you Rafe. I had kind of slowly come to that conclusion myself. It actually took me several days of back and forth before I finally decide that yes I was going to make that post. So, thank you for your kind words.

YW
I think you did the right thing.

thanks. *mew*

Whimsy & Rafe...sorry to hear about your personal battle with the disease. I feel for you both, hugs & kisses.

3 - Thanks for the compliment on the photo

Pep, sorry, I didn't see your response to this until just now...I'm not trying to sweep it under the carpet or turning on you. I feel that this has all been discussed, argued about for long enough. It's time for bygones to be bygones. You don't respond to her, she doesn't respond to you. Simple....but I will take this opportunity to ask Rhonda perhaps she would consider issuing you a public apology and be done with it. Rhonda?

Thanks

Perhaps you should start by asking Pep to apologize for everything he did first to provoke her? He's the last person who deserves an apology from Rhonda, IMHO.

Apologies all round would be good, frankly, and merited, but that ain't gonna happen.

I suspect that the very very best we can hope for is an armed truce. But I'd be happy even with that.

Wow and um, no

Exactly. Grief doesn't have a shelf life, regardless of the type of loss. You can think you are over it, and then something unexpected will remind you of the loss and it hurts anew. But as Rafe said, it is part of the process; what you can feel, you can heal.

Whimsy and Rafe, I am sorry for your losses. Gentle hugs to both of you.

You know, now that you mention it..........






nothing wrong at all - looks very cute.

Not a chance. I don't post much but I care. It is so hard to watch someone succumb to cancer. I have lost many to this disease... including my mom at an age when I needed her most. It makes me sad to recall those moments... and yet grateful for some strange reason because I was there to comfort and give love when it was needed most.

Much love goes out to all who have been through the experience (Rafe.) Much love goes out to those who have not. I wish the cure could be found. Hang in there Whimsy and keep processing the pain. I wish you much peace.

Love and peace to all. Lula

You have it all wrong, Lil.

Pep (You - and Chris - are responsible for the Forum Cartel; you actually have some power; and responsibility of course.)

PS Re last night: I never take forum business inworld; if Brann can't take gentle teasing from me - why should she be special? - then she should avoid group chat. Or you could throw me out of the Group if you really think I was behaving inappropriately.

I don't normally comment on boring pix, but since I was asked my opinion . . .

The reason it was boring was the vast expanse of brick wall, which could have been reduced in size and been shadowed so that there was more of an affective contrast with the area the spotlight/streetlight was highlighting. That would have made more apparent, yet ambiguous, the parallels you were presumably attempting to draw between a tart and a performer.

Having said that, my eyes were drawn to the brick wall because it resembled the tiled wall of my favourite college mens room, which had years of accumulated graffiti written on the grouting between the tiled bricks.

Pep (My favourite was "Too much graffiti makes your tiles fall out".)

You're vacillating again.

Pep (So you don't need to rush to the dictionary, that means "being fickle".)

Rhonda would have a very hard job convincing me of her sincerity merely with words. I have always told my kids (I should have told my wife too, but I assumed she was listening) that words mean nothing without actions to back them up. Saying sorry is empty unless you specify how you are going to change your behaviour in future so that potential unacceptable actions are recognised pre-emptively, acknowledged and appropriately resolved without causing harm. This is pretty difficult for kids who have not learned how to prevent their emotions from getting in the way of rational processing - and also, as is apparent from their behaviour in the forums, of those adults who are unable to control their hysterical reactions to inconsequential stimuli.

Pep (You can't unsay things, so I will always consider Rhonda's postings to be despicable and contemptible; if she were to acknowledge her appalling behaviour and the underlying problems she has, that caused that behaviour to leap from her obviously sick and bitter mind into the public domain, and to explain what steps she is taking to attempt to remedy - or at least contain - her apparently deep-seated mental illness, then I would have to reconsider my view of her as a person.)

... and which remedy or therapy are you following? I would also like to know who put you in charge of laying out how people should behave.

It is *you* and all the others who have suffered the pain of cancer - whether themselves or through the suffering of a loved one - that deserve an apology from Rhonda, rather than myself.

Pep (I am still unable to work out what to say to my 25 year old SL friend who has been told that she has less than a year to live.)

Do I know you? I don't think so.

Pep (Do I want to? Again, I don't think so.)

Hey, does someone out there have a problem with chunky thighs?

If I were you, I'd be more worried about the wooden leg you appear to have.

Pep (You remind me of a downhill ski racer, actually; Chemmy Alcott, I think.)

PS Google Images offers an interesting snap of her in position #2. Almost NSFW

At a club called Monochrome, "Where you supply the color":

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Dysis%20Isle/124/37/751

@Kelly - very cute avatar you have!

@Kylie - LOVE that picture! It's just full of wow.

I have a rl tie in the same pattern and colours as that scrap of material that might laughingly be called a dress.

Pep (I note that your defensive body language is considerably enhanced by the impenetrable barrier your morphed arms have created.)

Congrats to all who kicked the smoking habit. I understand it's very very hard to do...and I applaud you.