[Klara]

Two words to the wise:

If writing a long post, copy it before going to do anything else!!!! When thoughts were still fresh in my mind I wrote a wonderful exciting post - saw it was from "unregistered" and couldn't understand that, tried to fix it and lost the entire post. It was an exciting post, not because I'm egoistic, but because I was still under the influence of that evening's chat, which I will try to recapture part of, but doubt I can do it justice.

Second advice: For those whose time zone comes out in the evening for the chats, take a nice long afternoon nap!!!! And straighten out your hours as soon as possible!!!!

I was privileged to take part in all of the four newest chats here at cybermacro. I knew each of the first three were very different from each other, has a suspicion the fourth would also be different, but had no idea of how wonderfully different it would turn out!!!

It turned out to be three different chats, one flowing from the previous, yet the contributing members making each a memorable chat in itself.

The first one, as announced, was led by Ginat Rice, the topic being Who is Macrobiotic? After you read the transcript, this topic can be continued here on this forum - you can read for yourself all the highlights and gems that we discussed - I won't even try to sum it up, better you see the original.

Then after the official chat was over a few of us hung around and started informally, just kind of getting to know each other and joking around. Then this chat also got into some very thoughtful ideas, on being, on letting be (thank you Waco). It opened me up and although I'm still digesting the ideas, I can't tell you how exciting it was to have new possibilities of - what? - of everything, of life.

I'm not sure of the final decision if this chat will be transcribed - it was quite long, to say the least.

And then there were four (muskateers? indians?) of us left, and we were very excited how the chats were developing and had great lofty ideas where we could go with the chats, we were thinking BIG and the excitement was contagious!!!! And although we finally parted ways, one to make her lunch, a couple for their evening activities and me for my very late going to bed (was already 2:30 a.m., chat began at 9:00 p.m. for me) I was so full of energy that I couldn't go to sleep. Thus my advice for a nap!!!

Now I wonder what surprizes next Sunday will bring!!!!

Gary mentioned that people sometimes go to the chat room just to see if anyone else is there. Perhaps some of you who do that can announce when you'll be there, to make it more likely to find others. Kind of like Russian Roulette otherwise, no??

Looking forward to chatting with you all again.

Klara