Are there any plans to sustain the idea of Goanet after it collapses, a possibility that looks likely.
Goanet served an excellent purpose - to use FN’s phrase: Creating Social Capital - but now as Gabe Menezes says “It is going kaput”. I have greatly benefited from Goanet. I made contacts with people from the Goan Diaspora and for those beyond Canada, without meeting them a single time, they have become good friends. Like a train journey seeing people alighting, some of those friends have left. A few this life, others just the bulletin board. I miss them all. In the 25 odd years I have kept a presence here, I have been actively posting. It started out with FN encouraging me to post on Goanet Reader which led me to discover that writing helped me in many ways. It organized my thoughts, it revived my memories and it aided me in walking back to my lanes and roads through which I might have never walked again. Surprisingly writing did some other thing for me: it allowed me to use words and phrases dwelling in the recesses of my mind that I hesitated to access. It helped me in my work where I was able to counter hesitation and objection with a thought or turn of the phrase that suddenly became facile but to the deal, effective. It taught me that even with full disclosure, there are certain things that must not be said. It taught me to ponder before I write else I would place Sabre Toothed Tigers in Siberia. The mind like everything else, is a muscle or a machine that performs best when oiled and used often. Will I mourn Goanet when she is gone? Despite younger more vigorous and active channels that are now accessible, of course I will. How do you not cherish an old song or an old friendship? But I mourn too soon. Maybe Goanet like the late Queen will rule for many more years even after her ‘mobility issues’ creep up. Roland. Toronto. Gabe Menezes writes: Your posts reach moderation and are released. The system is kaput, as your posts are rejected by the system. If you wish please send the posts directly to me and I shall forward it for you. Incidentally I can post but do not receive any posts from Goanet.
