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pia†desideria
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Date Joined Jun 2001
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| Posted 2/9/2002 4:20 PM (GMT -6) |   | It’s that time of year again. I’ve learned a lot from this board, but now that spring semester has begun, all of a sudden I have to learn the old fashioned way. I will miss your insights and sparkling personalities. At least until summer.
I think this board is like a cyber salon. In the early 20th century, writers and artists and various intellectuals used to hang out together at someone’s house and it was called a “salon.” One of these salons was called the Bloomsbury Group and it included people from multiple countries, multiple economic levels, multiple disciples, multiple religions, etc. Maybe you’ve heard of some of them—T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Ezra Pound, & co. Then there was the “Inklings”—a group that included C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkein, who hung out at the pubs together.
The reason I mention these salons is because even though we have different perspectives and opinions (some of us hold to them more stubbornly than others—not me, of course…), I think we have a good thing going in this group of ours. Maybe we can be for theology what the Bloomsburys and the Inklings were for literature. Maybe I’m a big dreamer. But maybe dreams can come true.
Wow, was that sappy! Saying goodbye just brings out the sap in people, I guess. Anyway, I have a proposed name for our cyber-salon or cyber-pub or whatever: “The Salt Lick.” How is this board like a salt lick? Pious answer: because the conversations are “seasoned with salt.” Jaded answer: because dumb animals can’t resist it and keep coming back for more. 
Blessings to you all. See you in the summer… (—ok, maybe spring break. )
*blows kisses*
pia
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