Hi all its misswebb aka dj baby k don't know if I am posting this in the correct place but wanted to give thanks and praises to Mommy Daddy Sweetie Rose Royale Rose Wood and the MULTITUDE of fabulous peeps who helped me a few years back rise like a phoenix from the Thanksgiving ashes of my devastating fire. Even though I love being naked I like it by choice not necessity and y'all put some FIERCE clothes on my back - thinking and grateful for all y'all!

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Thanks for the beautiful message, Kelly!

For those who want to read the story, its in BEST OF THE MOTHERBOARDS forum , here:

http://motherboards.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/4006060101/m/8786050471

Much love

I have to echo baby K's heartfelt words. These 'boards have become the "go to" spot for so many of us, and the crazy love and support I have received and witnessed is quite special; it really blurs the boundaries of the "virtual" and "tactile" worlds. So, my fiercest of Thanks goes out to our Empress, our Daddy, our Mods and all the gorgeous and snarky posters and advertisers for making it thrive. Rapture itself owes so much to you all.

During the height of "Dean-mania" several weeks ago, I received messages from people in various spots around the globe who had been directed here, and who were simultaneously shocked and inspired by the magic that we've all created; the Motherboards are a revolutionary success in a world that is increasingly divisive and splintering.

I must join in here with my own ode of thanks and graditude. During my illness several years ago, the motherboards family came to my rescue with prayers and good wishes. Even though I couldn't read those " Beams to Bobby" until after I got out of the hospital, it was the motherboards and those great postings that helped restore me to good heath and strength. Even now when I might be feeling a little down or homesick for Manhattan, I will go to that forum and re-read hem. I think of all of you and just because I live Elsewhere doesn't mean that I don't think of each and every one of you nearly every day. Thank you Daddy and Chi Chi for all of your hard work. You not only bring joy and meaning to many peoples lives but you show them the way to the party. What more could we ask for.

It is true isn't it? Love is just as enticing as violence when it comes to getting others to join in. But you don't see that ganging up of love anywhere as much as you do for the violence encountered in the world.

A gift is a phenomenon way much more than a gift is some material thing that we've all been indoctrinated to think a gift is. The thing is a marker, something touchable (even a virtual/cyber place). But what it hints at is the increase in relation it creates. Empress and Daddy birthed this place but it is everybody who comes here to contribute that propels it to the wild and magnificent dimensions it has obtained. Even when content is provided that is crazily hostile and biting this relation grows from it. Even more than a barely self-sustaining commercial entity this place operates primarily like a gift does if you want to consider the results of what happens here. And even more so when you consider its ability to affect people's lives.

You can mark how this place/gift has grown by looking at its mechanism's self-generating statistics. But what you can't really trace is the human phenomenon of increase in relations that have come about. Or the qualities of those relaions. For a hint of that you have to read what someone like Mr. Joe or Bobby say here.