tried to send this twice privately but both times it bounced, said the mailbox was disabled...saw a post from vee on the list so i hope she gets this! -------- hi vee, i've been going through some health problems myself--just had an ultrasound to see if i had gallstones; i don't, but i still have to figure out what's causing the pain and indigestion--so i haven't been paying much attention to my email, but i've been thinking of you and concerned that i haven't seen any email from you. but i haven't seen much at all from the Niagara Co. list, so maybe there's some problem with my mail. i know how draining health problems are. i hope you're taking care of yourself and getting the best possible medical care. as you know i'm not a big fan of conventional medicine, even at its best it often leaves out the 'mind' part of the bodymind connection. i know you have a strong faith to sustain you, and good friends. i just hope that as you heal you are getting your emotional as well as physical needs met, because i'm convinced that in the end it's our emotions--the mind--that decides if the body's going to get better and not the other way around. if the emotional aspect of a person isn't getting sufficient nourishment, the immune system breaks down. take good care of yourself, vee, and when you're able, drop me a line! love, chris -- At that instant he saw, in one blaze of light, an image of unutterable conviction, the reason why the artist works and lives & has his being -- the reward he seeks -- the only reward he really cares about, without which there is nothing. It is to snare the spirits of mankind in nets of magic, to make his life prevail through his creation, to wreak the vision of his life, the rude & painful substance of his own experience, into the congruence of blazing & enchanted images that are themselves the core of life, the essential pattern whence all other things proceed, the kernel of eternity." ~Thomas Wolfe, Of Time & the River