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To: BlueCrab who wrote (5550)	12/31/1997 3:49:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

And now let us welcome the New Year Full of things that have never been. -Rilke- To all my dear friends at DAR-I am closing the book on 1997 with some relief and some regrets. I open 1998's calendar wondering what joys and sorrows we'll write on these blank pages and if next December 31 will find us still together. As I think on these past months, I realize how much a part of my life you have become. We share our lives, our thoughts, our vulnerabilities in many ways here, in some aspects not normally found in the 3D world. Here, and through e-mail, I have grown to know you and love you and care about your lives. Some of you I have even met. People have doubted the validity of relationships made through this medium; I no longer do. In any area of one's life and through any medium, others will have only the reality one allows them to have, will give back only what one is willing to trust and take from them. Here, I believe we have expanded our realities, not hidden from them, as some might accuse us of doing. Most of us live normal and full lives, although I think the group gathered here may be more inclined to introspection, to observation, to imagination, and to the written word as a powerful mode of communication. I would hope that we are adding to our worlds, enhancing our personal experiences and wisdom with our friendships here. I don't feel isolated by my time on DAR; I feel more a part of the human race. Robert Nozick wrote: It is a privelege to be a part of the ongoing realm of existing things and processes. When we see and conceive of ourselves as a part of those ongoing processes, we identify with the totality and, in the calmness this brings, feel solidarity with all our comrades in existing. We want nothing other than to live in a spiral of activities and enhance others' doing so, deepening our own reality as we come into contact and relation with the rest, exploring the dimensions of reality, embodying them in ourselves, creating, responding to the full range of the reality we can discern with the fullest reality we possess, becoming a vehicle for truth, beauty, goodness, and holiness, adding our own characteristic bit to reality's eternal processes. And that wanting of nothing else, along with its attendant emotion, is-by the way- what constitutes happiness and joy. To all of you, thank you for adding so much happiness and joy to my daily life. I hope we'll share our lives in 1998...and beyond. Love, penni