From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=872">cryingshame58</a><BR>
Date: 4 June 2004<P>

Kirk,<BR>
Something to consider...<BR>
There is a theory in holistic medicine that when you have pain in the neck or back...that most likely you are allowing someone or something bother you to the point of physical pain...if you have a sore throat, you suffer disappointment/heartache from a relationship...stomach problems is usually grief from losing a close relationship from death or true departure...there are books about this subject if anyone is interested...As a massage therapist, i can fully recommend a good back and neck massage...it is great medicine for mind, body and spirit...<BR>
CS58
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1139">jwb71913</a><BR>
Date: 4 June 2004<P>

Thank you Kirk for the pick, always a surprise and a pleasant one at that.  I enjoyed writing those pieces more than anything I've written in months.  Something about creating a scene out of pieces of life experience and then embellishing it with lies is refreshing and fun.<BR>
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Watch your back, you're gonna need it.<BR>
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Congratulations to all who posted this month, I've enjoyed reading but have not had time to comment lately.<BR>
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Jim 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=254">chris</a><BR>
Date: 4 June 2004<P>

Thanks for the picks, Kirk! The muse in question is now history but, hey, that's the beauty of the written word - she lives on even if she probably doesn't deserve it. Great stuff from everyone else too...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 4 June 2004<P>

Kirk~ thanks heaps! I've enjoyed reading the picks again, and even more with your comments. You take care of that back...and don't worry so much about image. Someone will love you for just who you are as a genuinely honest person who cares. Congrats on the digest picks and Blender posts last month. Lots of energy in the writing this past month. Jim, I'm truly glad to see you hit your stride with the prose. I think the limericks were only warm-ups for this to develop into some really interesting reading from your direction. More, please! Very busy here, but I love to come read at Blender at every opportunity. Congrats on your success, McNabb. Nice to see folks do well here AND in their personal lives. Pam and B.K., you are treatures in kindness (thanks) ..... Rennie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=35">Star of David</a><BR>
Date: 4 June 2004<P>

Kirk, the "How Can I Get Through To You" piece is written so damned well and helps make things clearer from a man's point of view and helps women understand too. Perhaps a woman whould read the book and write the next ramble on same for next month!<BR>
As for the front page picks, I think this time's selection is way better than most times, it's just fantastic. I enjoyed reading them all. Congrats everyone who made it there this month!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 4 June 2004<P>

Rens; We are thinking alike. I just read your deer in the headlights and laughed. Mine was already racked hahaha. Hope all is good to go with you and I will talk to you soon. Have been in the gym so much I am jello beaten with a sledge hammer. <BR>
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bk
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1189">darwin</a><BR>
Date: 4 June 2004<P>

oh oh oh!!! thanks kirk!  <BR>
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I admit the leo in me loves seeing my name on the front page.  plus i've had such a hard time writing since i got married...not sure how to inspire myself now that I'm not down and out.  amazing how my ability seems to be more when I am depressed and lonely....but isn't that how it is for so many? 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=23">Kirk</a><BR>
Date: 4 June 2004<P>

Star, thanks for the kind words about this month's Ramble.  I've probably learned a lot from this whole disaster.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 4 June 2004<P>

<a href="http://www.loveblender.com/poetry/one-art.poem.html">http://www.loveblender.com/poetry/one-art.poem.html</a><BR>
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one of my first favs on Blender, Kirk ..... Rennie
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