What I got, Mimi, from SS was to trust my real friends...like you...and to share, if I choose, because I trust you to call me on my stuff...from love.

I felt loved in your post.

I think he was raising his massive, overlapping eyebrows for exercise...heehee...okay, not really...rather, AT me...

I heard you ask, Mimi, to hold my fear and act anyway.

So I emailed you.

LOL

Does that count????? {{{{{{Mimi--not a stranger to my heart}}}}}

LA

It's OK Mimi.
I was supporting you.

You have a lot of class Mimi. I enjoy reading your posts.
My smile meant a lot of things. It's hard to communicate some things with the written word. Body language and facial expression can accomplish a lot that my key board has a hard time with. Sometimes describing facial expression in type can convey subtleties more quickly than typing the whole thing out as I am doing here.

I smiled because of how intense you are........ and how much you care. LA knows you care, and she is thinking more about what you said. She's trying to decide if she will post. I was trying to acknowledge her thoughts, that I knew what was going on in her mind, and that I was OK with whatever she does.

However, She still has to answer to you, and the others that care about her. That's another reason for the smile and raised eyebrows. I was telling her "I'm OK, but what are you going to tell all these others?"
Going along with that, the smile communicates the irony of coming to a form where no one really knows who we are, but where we still have obligations (in a sense) to friends we make here.

Thanks for asking Mimi. You are one in a million. I mean that in the best possible way it can be used. No hidden meanings this time.

SS

Thanks Y'ALL..

I am rather INTENSE...Aren't I?

Loads of folks have described me that way...

And now on this forum..

OH MY...

Oh, the LIFE of a GODDESS...

(Open hand on forehead)

Thanks LA........ I get a lot of things from your Walk with GD.

Choosing to tell about that....... means you have lots of good times, and that bad times are not overwhelming.

I can feel a little strain in the way you tell the story. No..... maybe it's just that you are a little tired. Stress causes tired though...... It would be easier if I could see you talk, and hear your voice. then I'd know what to ask, and how to ask it.

I wish Mimi could see me smile when I type... it's a benign smile, no hidden motives. It's a "you'll be Ok" smile.

Looks like nothing is going on that you can't cope with, though coping takes energy, and makes one tired sometimes.

SS smiles.

Mimi,
Intense can be overbearing........ but that's not what I get from you.

From you, I get care, concern, and the feeling that because you care, you won't just let it drop.

That is a good intense. I think once people understand it, they are fine with it. It's always nice to know people care.

SS smiles again......... nods encouragement.