A year late, but grateful!

[Debra Jones]

A notice about a post from Chris Saper sent me back to the SOG website. Happy to say my auto save did remember me!

I wanted to drop a note I should have done a year ago.

I went to the Principle Gallery in Alexandria last year to see the Women Painting Women show and spilled a drink on Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco! It was because I was swept up in her wonderful hug (being European she was going for the second cheek and I was doing the bear version...) and, although not selected, I found SO MANY actual friends in the show, that I had met here!

There is a weird anonymity that one feels when typing in their skivvies from hot horrible Phoenix, spilling out ideas and taking them in. One forgets that these keystrokes are attached to humans. When an opportunity to meet face to face arises, it is seriously amazing.

I knew Cindy Procious and Linda Brandon in actual real life, but meeting so many living avatars was a sensory overload.

I see the forum has gone rather silent, but I am just tossing out a message in a bottle to 1.) thank Cynthia for having the foresight to put us all together in one place and 2.) see if, now that so many of you have international personae, if you might pop in and say "Hi".

Thank you all!