[Sca-cooks] Thank You.

[Elaine Koogler]

I don't think that what you said is trite or overemotional.  I think you just
voiced what we're all feeling.  We never know how much our friends and loved ones
mean to us until something like this happens, unfortunately.  I've had 3 brushes
with life-threatening illness, each one pulling me up short and reminding me that
I must "take time to smell the roses"...this time, I've experienced an even
deeper sense of the uncertainty of life.

I'm having a party for my birthday on October 27th...and I'm letting all of my
friends and family know how very important it is that they all be there so that
we can reaffirm our friendship with and love for each other!  It's my 60th, and I
know how many times I came very close to not being here for this.  That's why I
CELEBRATE each and every birthday because each and every year is one more that
I've been given.

Kiri

DeeWolff at aol.com wrote:

> I know this is going to sound trite and overemotional.
>
> But I have to say it anyway.
> (You'll either laugh at me, get my message, or let it roll off)
>
> I want to thank you all for being part of my life........good or bad.
>
> I try to say thank you as often as I can, and some here have even heard "I
> love you", but many that I meet never get that because I was too busy, or too
> wrapped up in my life to notice who you are.
>
> Tuesday morning, I was wallowing in the politics of Ostgardr, juggling two
> full time jobs, and worrying about all of life's petty mundane tasks.
>
> On Monday night, I celebrated a very historic happening in my life (those who
> know me well know that this has affected my interactions for the past two
> years)
>
> On Tuesday night, I was wondering if my family and friends where all alive
> still.
>
>  Grieving at the loss of the innocent. Dealing with children  and Patients
> who saw this on TV or first hand. (Do you know how hard this is affecting our
> recent immigrants who came here from their countries to get away from this?)
>
> Makes the morning seem a little trite huh??
>
> So many people have rallied to aid us. (I have spoken on the phone to people
> from Lochac, and Ansteorra, and Atenvelt....I have emails from AnTir, The
> Outlands, Meridies,Drachenwald,and Trimaris. I have had offers of blood
> drives, food, money, clothes, time, jobs, places to stay.  PLEASE support
> your Local RED Cross and Salvation Army......they are doing the best they can
> with what they have to help us here. Send stuff to them, not to us.
>
> Taking pride in being a worker, I have never been so helpless. I can't put a
> bandaid on this hurt.....
>
> I have been changed forever.
>
> Andrea MacIntire
> Ostgardr Seneschale (NYC)
> Gilded Pearl Guild Mistress
> Silverhorde
> House Three Skulls
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