From:    Malana                                 Area: Mundane
To:      Tony Iannotti                          16 Jul 94 17:15:08
Subject: Re: detachment                         Rec'd UpdReq 

 TI>    Metaphysical is for magazine style posts only. 
 TI> Please ask your sysop 
 TI>    for a copy of the rules, or apply to Farrll 
 TI> McGovern for a copy of the 
 TI>    same
Ok, so sorry for the mix up!
       Malana


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From:    MILAMBER                               Area: Mundane
To:      ACE LIGHTNING                          14 Jul 94 15:10:00
Subject: Re: MEANWHILE, BACK AT TH              UpdReq 

... On 07-04-94  20:33, Ace Lightning blessed us all with the following:
 AL> Alas, that was the house *before* this one. This house doesn't have a
 AL> fireplace, although if I had enough money I could have one built. We
 AL> have a huge yard, a little strip of woods to the North and a
 AL> swampy/marshy area to the West (hmmmm...never thought of the elemental
 AL> correspondences before...), and I can have my feet in the Atlantic
 AL> Ocean in fifteen minutes.
Yep...quite nice to live by the water.  I could walk out to the beach, but 
that's only the bay.  It's a pretty stiff hike to the ocean from here...
<sigh>  And to the Altantic?  Jeesh...
  AL> Other than that, the things
 AL> I'm unhappy about not having are mostly intangibles.
 MI>Yes.  Same here, I guess...only sort of the opposite.  There are a lot of
 >things I've wanted very much all my life that I simply can't have right
 >now unless I win the lottery this week...but I'm doing pretty well on the
 >intangibles.  I've found my path, I've found my fiancee.  I may sometimes
 >wish that I would learn faster, but I know that's just a minor flaw of
 >impatience on my part.  All things happen in their own time.
 AL> I'm on my Path; that's one of the areas where things *are* going sort
 AL> of right. I'm more-or-less happily married (we celebrated our 21st
 AL> anniversary last month!), but our teenage son has behavior problems
 AL> and makes my life a living hell most of the time. We've managed to get
 AL> ourselves into a financial "hole", and my husband is predicting all
 AL> sorts of doom and destruction, and refuses to accept my magick as
 AL> being "real" help. I'm a middle-aged suburban housewife instead of the
 AL> first woman to reach Mars (or something); I have a lot of self-esteem
 AL> problems. And right at the moment, anyway, there doesn't seem to be
 AL> much hope that any of these things will really ever get better.
 AL> I envy you.
Careful, there...I mauy not have a teenager, but I'm not without stumbling
blocks.  (One in particular is that I'm only a few years ahead of a teenager,
and my fiancee is quite a bit older.  People keep asking if I'm her son.)  
Still, all in all, I'm pretty happy with what I have.  I'm doing pretty well,
for how well I'm doing...
Blessed Be,
Milamber, a.k.a. Maus
"The thawing fields are smooth and svelte...
But I have snow beneath my belt
And weeks to go before I melt
And weeks to go before I melt."
				-Robert Frosty
... The magic's in the music and the music's in me.
___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12

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