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Dear Kathleen,
Wow that really was an interesting bio. I usually shrink from reading life stories, but this was your bio and I was not surprised to find it engrossing.
I of course knew your opinions are mostly controversial, you have frequently aired them in both your forum and my forum and in this regard, Sammy's interview about a year ago was also most revealing. The part about your sister I can certainly relate to, since a girlfriend of mine has for all her life been in a very similar situation and while she has never really confided her innermost feelings about it with me, I have frequently tried to understand what being in her shoes can be like.
I have also frequently thought how terrible it would be if I became suddenly blind. Would I want, or have the strength, to go on living? But then I think I still would have music to resort to as a refuge so all would not be actually lost and maybe, only maybe, I could go on living.
But I guess I had better stick to what brought me here in the first place, lest this message becomes too lengthy: namely, to congratulate you for this POTW award, and still perhaps more important, to wish you all the best, now and forever, in everything you do.
Sincerely,
Luis Miguel Goitizolo
P.S. The other parts in your bio I find most fascinating too, especially the ones dealing with evolution and the possibility of dogs going to heaven. Without insisting too much on this, I do believe they will eventually go to heaven, but only after taking new births as humans..
Hi Luis Miguel, We've had many dogs and cats, both in our parents family, and within my marriage, and all my sisters and brothers, and in-laws! One of my cats is very sensitive to peoples' emotions, she tries to comfort people when we're upset, and it's obvious that pets get annoyed when they can't sit where they want or don't get what they want, they really do have almost-human reactions. When I was in high school, I would tell some of my teachers how I felt about my sister, because she was difficult to live with, and very demanding to have her own way all the time, and my mother would always give in to her, even if she was wrong. There was only 1 teacher who really listened to me about that, and didn't judge me for the way I felt. All the rest looked surprised, as if it was wrong of me to feel upset about obviously upsetting situations. If the disability was removed, my sister just would have been a mean big sister, like one of the others, easy to ignore, but she was not ignorable, I HAD to be nice to her and pay attention to her and do things her way. That was very difficult and took a big emotional toll, I knew that situation also came between my parents, my mother obviously took my sister's side above all else, even above my father, and it got to him immensely.
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