Good afternoon OFC'ers. I can remember bouncing from site to site, RIU being my last experience....yea. I lurked for years all over the place since I'm just not trustful in nature. I befriended peeps here after I came out of lurking and found a happy wonderful place to be. What we have here in the OFC is unique and refreshing, just a bunch of old farts trying to help one another along. Then some changes happened in my life and looking back I can see that I have sorta "pulled out" for a bit here at the OFC. I realized that every second of every day is priceless, some things we take for granted get taken from us way too soon. I just wanted everyone to know how much I value each and everyone here at the OFC. I have hard time with trust and when people get too close before I'm ready I'll pull back, it's a PTSD thing and I don't expect anyone to understand. What happened to Rose can happen to anyone one of us any second now, she means a bunch to me, more than I think she realizes. I noticed today, or simply slowed down enough to notice that over the last couple of months I have dropped by less and less here, and it seems I'm loosing the connection with some of you I once had, that pains me greatly....so what I'm really trying to say is let the people you love know you love them, you may not get another chance. OFC, I can't think of anyone here I don't love to some extent....not the swapping spit in a hot shower kind of love, more of a respect kind of love. I know I don't drop in as often, but there is not a day that goes by I don't pop in and read.....sometimes I'm just quiet and don't have anything to say, other times I come to share my garden with you all, something I only do with people I care about. We have a community here, something that does not happen in the real word and we need to fight like hell to keep it what it is.....