"I spose it's not entirely fair to put someone through a little hoop of fire before I deign them worthy of a detailed response."

hehehe. Nah, it's fair as. Sounds like a solid strategy.

I think I'm like you. I like engaging, but I love engaging when people come back and make the effort to work through the muck to get to the gold. That's where all the gold is, imo. not on the surface. It's under the dirt, the much and stuff. Some people simply want to pick the flowers and the nice stuff growing in the soil, and don't want to ge their hands dirty, but in my experience, the real gold is where you dig. If it's on the surface, there's a reasonable likelihood that some of its just fool's gold.

Linguist: Fluent in 3 languages, semi-fluent in others. Occupation: translation. So, translating Q, for example, and translating God, for example, is where the real action is, for me. Creating bridges across differences in thought, ideas, expressions, aka 'language'.

" If I get sad, I fall down a bottomless well and can't get back out."

Hahah. I knew it! That's why you got attack skills. You're a sensie. I'm glad. Protect yourself, as if God thought you are precious (he does!).

Interesting to hear about your mum. You know, around may last year, God triggered off some dynamite in my .... self ... that had been laying around for decades. Really, really good stuff, major shifts. Still working through that. But a really big part of the process has been a book that I was put on to. "It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle". Helped me to find out that a lot of the stuff I'd been carrying since the year 0 was inherited and connected to the grandparents I never knew (my mother's parents). Recommended to any person, really. Big leaps in this field, also in the last 5-10 years. We're finally figuring out that we are more than just "me" - that we're part of a much bigger framework, and we're all interconnected.

"I spose it's not entirely fair to put someone through a little hoop of fire before I deign them worthy of a detailed response."

hehehe. Nah, it's fair as. Sounds like a solid strategy.

I think I'm like you. I like engaging, but I love engaging when people come back and make the effort to work through the muck to get to the gold. That's where all the gold is, imo. not on the surface. It's under the dirt, the much and stuff. Some people simply want to pick the flowers and the nice stuff growing in the soil, and don't want to ge their hands dirty, but in my experience, the real gold is where you dig. If it's on the surface, there's a reasonable likelihood that some of its just fool's gold.

Linguist: Fluent in 3 languages, semi-fluent in others. Occupation: translation. So, translating Q, for example, and translating God, for example, is where the real action is, for me. Creating bridges across differences in thought, ideas, expressions, aka 'language'.