Already?

[catelin]

I came here, stumbled in actually, through the beckoning finger of the always lovely Ms. RhondaK. This is a wonderful and fantastic place...and that's saying a lot, considering all of the places out there. So thank you, friends, for everything you have been, done, and become for me over the last twelve months. Amazing things have been forged here that will far outlast this place and this time--and that is a gift beyond all imagining. Oh, and in case you missed it and since it seems the thing all the cool kids are doing....you can go back in time if you're up to it. I am humbled by my luck in knowing y'all. Thanks ever so much.

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[anonymousblack.livejournal.com]

(aww, it's so tricky to thank me when you've been the one to give me the gifts! thank you, Cate. And you're very welcome, too.)

you're not leaving

[suladog.livejournal.com]

are you????

[chaizzilla.livejournal.com]

i wish i'd figured out the pubic/private setting sooner, most of my posts before i did are deleted. oddly enuf they're still on the server, if i have the url available for one i can see it & its comments still
time keeps on slippin, slippin....

[wistful.livejournal.com]

cate? i read that old entry. just wanted to tell you're such a wonderful wonderful person. all grown up, girly and beautiful, inside out.

A bit soppy

[verian.livejournal.com]

but I think that of all the people I have met here you have enriched me more than any other.

awww look at me, I'm teetering on the edge of gushingness.

I'd better go,

*sniffle

xx

Thank you , Cate ( and Mr. D)

[jaarronn.livejournal.com]

How glad and thankful I am you "stumbled in" to this LJ world Cate...Although it's been only a few months now since I've been getting to know you here, I truly feel you have added a lifetime's worth of things that have broadened and enriched my world - in ways that so wonderfully accentuate and reaffirm the positives!

I very much enjoyed reading those first LJ entries -especially your reminicence of the time when the man from the "girlie mag" wanted you to pose...In all honesty, as I read it and pictured what you must have been like in those days, I had the very certain feeling that if fate had crossed our paths back then, I would have fallen hopelessly "under your spell"... being that in my younger days, I always managed to lacerate myself by pursuing women who were very much like you... redheads with the combinations of beautiful faces, great bodies, brilliant minds and very confusing (to me)mercurial, complex emotions...in other words the impossible!... "Ah, but I was so much older then, but and I'm younger than that now." So, thank the stars, you have been spared at least one troublesome man in your past!

And, to further make use of B. Dylan's poetry, I add this - which seems most appropiate:

I ain't lookin' to compete with you,
Beat or cheat or mistreat you,
Simplify you, classify you,
Deny, defy or crucify you.
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.

No, and I ain't lookin' to fight with you,
Frighten you or uptighten you,
Drag you down or drain you down,
Chain you down or bring you down.
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.

I ain't lookin' to block you up
Shock or knock or lock you up,
Analyze you, categorize you,
Finalize you or advertise you.
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.

I don't want to straight-face you,
Race or chase you, track or trace you,
Or disgrace you or displace you,
Or define you or confine you.
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.

I don't want to meet your kin,
Make you spin or do you in,
Or select you or dissect you,
Or inspect you or reject you.
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.

I don't want to fake you out,
Take or shake or forsake you out,
I ain't lookin' for you to feel like me,
See like me or be like me.
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you."

[anoisblue.livejournal.com]

Dear Cate, it is truly a JOY to know you.

Re: you're not leaving

[catelin.livejournal.com]

Heh! Hardly! I just noticed yesterday I've been here a year. : )

[catelin.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much. : ) It's interesting to look over writing as you grow up...I have old journals from when I was 15 or so that just make me howl! But it is nice to see that we do grow...we certainly do grow! : )

Re: Thank you , Cate ( and Mr. D)

[catelin.livejournal.com]

And you, my dear J, are a perfect example of what makes this little corner of the net so glorious. I'm so glad to see you back. : )

[catelin.livejournal.com]

Ditto, sister...times infinity! : )

Re: A bit soppy

[catelin.livejournal.com]

Wowzers, V, what a compliment! : ) And you would be so proud of me...I'm actually working on some more poetry AND getting my graphics ideas together for you! Wheeeeeee!! Can it be that I've turned over a new leaf? Or is it just that I have a "season" where I keep up with email from about November through February? We shall see! : )

Re: Thank you , Cate ( and Mr. D)

[jaarronn.livejournal.com]

Aw, shucks...(blush) Oh! and I see I made a slight error - it's r-e-m-i-n-i-S-c-e-n-c-e!

Re: A bit soppy

[verian.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, I appear to have posted that in the wrong journal, damn :0

but

well done you, I hope you don't pull a mental muscle with this sudden flurry of work, I'm very much looking forward to it arriving by e-mail in 2003.

(I'm such a tease!)

[theodicy.livejournal.com]

Really loved the first page of your lj. Haven't got time to read more now, but the ageing issues - yeah, been there. Doing that. Embodiment is a potent topic for women.

Peace.