<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi All<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Andrea's last post may seem a bit cryptic unless one reads back on it.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>When I commented on what a turn off twinkling was to me at Mike's house it was apparent I was not alone in this if not just by the laughter alone. Andrea felt pretty much the same but gets around it by nodding the fist which is the universal sign for "yes".</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I think this is a wonderful way to be different (if need be) and simultaneously create inclusion.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Like the Subject says.. just "grist for the mill"</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Peace </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Duende</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV> "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Albert Einstein</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Mar 8, 2007, at 8:14 AM, Andrea Dorey wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>Hi, Roy,</DIV>That was a mistake on my part. Feel free to post it.<DIV>I'm getting ready to go to KMVT to do a show, so I was in a flurry to get ready. Then I hear a purr on the computer and come to see what's up!</DIV><DIV>Maybe the group will read my and your comments below and get it after all.</DIV><DIV>Andrea</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Mar 8, 2007, at 8:06 AM, Duende wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Hi Again<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Your reply to me came off list. I wish it were on list. When I brought up the twinkling at Mikes there was sufficient acknowledgment (and laughing) to know I was far from alone in this. Your idea of signing is brilliant. (that's why I wish you'd posted this to the list :-)<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Peace</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Duende</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>_________________________________________________________________</DIV><DIV>"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Albert Einstein</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Mar 8, 2007, at 7:57 AM, Andrea Dorey wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><BR><DIV><DIV>On Mar 8, 2007, at 7:48 AM, Duende wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>And another thing about the Greens was "twinkling". The first time I </DIV> <DIV>saw twinkling I almost ran out of the room. It almost seems like a </DIV> <DIV>desperate attempt to be different. Anyway, it's really too weird for </DIV> <DIV>my blood..and I am a VERY weird guy :-)</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Peace</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Duende</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>I agree with your impression about the "twinkling." I've gotten used to it by now, but I prefer to give the "nodding fist" that means "yes" in <B>sign language</B> which, by adopting that, would further our all-inclusive notion in our GP platform.<BR></SPAN><DIV>Andrea</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>