One of the nicer aspects of the Internet and groups like this in particular is that many of the things that are offered here are innately gender-less. Stripped of the physical baggage of shape, status, race, age or even gender, the conversations take on a "higher, purer" form - it's as if we're communicating directly with each other's souls.
This is an experience that we get to enjoy far too infrequently in real life. We catch a glimpse of it around the holidays perhaps, and we wind up wondering why it can't be like that all year, that openness and lightness of spirit. Sometimes we catch a fleeting glimpse of it at a family gathering, a wedding or a funeral, then we trudge relucantly back into real life to face the familiar and colder world of our day to day activities. We get lost in the busy-ness of everyday life and forget about those shining, crystalline moments until one surprises us and uplifts us once again.
This forum is one of those glimpses. Thank goodness it's not a fleeting one. I thoroughly enjoy reading everyone's posts here and sensing the comraderie that exists between young and old, male and female, healthy and infirm. Everyone has something useful to share here, unencumbered by the physical trappings of daily life. Even gender.
:grouphug:
