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Cat Jarosz on thu 5 sep 02

Oh MY! Well, I must say I have opened up a can o worms here with my
"PARAGRAPH PARANOIA" ! I was not wanting to start something this
controversial by saying I stank at both punctuation and paragraphs in my last
email but I did receive an email from someone telling me to clean up my act
and it made me cry in SHAME!

I apologize if sometimes I do not break up my emails and yes I cry in
shame because maybe it means I disrespect everyone on this list when I am so
careless. For this I apologize profusely to the ones that take offense at
these things and can only say that I honestly never meant to diss anyone.

I will say that in defense of myself I did not mention any names to anyone
and emailed the person myself and we handled it ... after a while I calmed
down and saw where he was coming from and eventually had to agree with him
and was too ashamed to write into clay art there after because I felt
unworthy in my writing skills. This is what I conveyed to one person and was
encouraged to write again ...

I may be paragraph paranoid now and may never be a perfect writer of the
English language but good grief people "LIGHTEN UP" I know I try the
best that I can to communicate and Clay Art has given me the opportunity to
talk to people again (via puter only) but its communications. Being a potter
sometimes means weeks, months , yrs of isolation and with that goes your
skills at interpersonal communications . We make our choices and I chose to
devote yrs of my life to this stuff we all love so much, now I am trying
to reach out to others like me and its tough, so be kind.

I dont think I am the only one in this position and its the only reason I
thought the subject might be pertinent to clay art. Its getting way out of
hand now and name calling is not nice. Please cant we all get along? I
shook cyber hands with the person who made me aware of what a clutz I was so
I hope maybe you all will forgive both of us.

Please feel free to discuss the communications thread but would ya keep
it respectful and try to see it from both sides of the fence ? I think
there is room for all of us as long as we try our best. Remember the delete
KEY !!! I am definitely more aware of what I write now and I will try
harder in future. if anyone else can learn from my public shame then it was
worth it... your friend still, Catski



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