What to say, what to say. Initially, I wanted to comment about some of the posts regarding the "state of the list." But by the time I had gotten to the end of the digest, I thought I had read some "argueing" about whether there is an "inner circle" or not. I use quotation marks because I want to be really careful not to offend anyone. At that point I felt, "what really is the point of posting at all?". Half of these folks get each entry as they come in, so by the time the other half gets it in digest form (daily I might add), things have already been responded to and I get confused. Not to mention, I fell twice, not once, on my walk to get the mail. And on the second fall, I took a good bump to my head.
That said, some thoughts on the list: 1) I was totally surprised to hear Les say that he didn't care for the political discussions because I thought it was Les that had stated that the people who did not want the political posts had spewed venom or made venomous renarks. After that, I never made a peep because after I posted that I did not think this was the "saddam hussein discussion list" and switched to joni only, I figured that could have been considered "venomous". So I shut up. I felt when I objected to the political content, I had absolutely no support, so I am surprised as to how many people also found that tedious. I have gotten over it now and gotten so used to skimming that it is no longer germane. 2) Overall the JMDL is not warm to new people, there are people who attack you the second you post, and then refuse to make amends when you stick around. Luckily, there are a few good old timers (one in particular for me, but, ONLY ONE, although that's all you need) that makes one welcome. 3) The JMDL is a big clique 4) the JMDL is lacking humor, takes itself way too seriously and should lighten way the fuck up 5) do the members of the JMDL not have lives and 6) do you ever think that if Joni read this she would think we were a bunch of freaks? I love Joni. Her music has a big place in my soul and always will, but I do not know if that is enough to keep me connected with a bunch of strangers in cyberspace. A lot of you talk about deep friendship and deep love, well unless you are all a bunch of total wackjobs, that is for those of you have actually met and connected. For the rest of us it's just words on a screen. Andrea
