morning paper conversatives (no coffee)

I feel really honored by your reading this, I've read some of your stuff and think the world of it. I think your name is a great one and you have a very creative signature. Thankyou so very much for reading and discerning. :) Kudos, Whitetea

Thankyou for the wonderful chat the other day. I enjoyed getting to know more about you. I wonder alot about the people behind good writing. thankyou also for reading. barbsdad got it right, LDS religion. I remember the first time sneaking into coffee at hotel when I was 11, I felt like such a rebel until it made me cough. Thinking back on it is pretty funny.

good to see you again Chuck! It's always good to meet someone like minded on certain topics. I usually stop people right in their tracks when it comes to gender bashing, because I don't think it accomplishes much and think the energy is better focused on closing part of the gender gap. I just wanted to explain a bit, because I don't want to seem like a man hater. Not even close. What spawned this is the general attitudes of people here, especially men. This is... a little angry towards narrow minds, circular logic etc. This is also battling it out towards chauvinistic outlooks. If you are LDS I respect that I that, know many good people who have done good things in the name and practice of the religion. I do think that if someone follows that faith they need to be careful to not get stuck in a dangerous contemptuous ethnocentric view of the world, because a lot of the LDS outlook is them vs the ways of the world. I am the only one in my family who hasn't followed in these footsteps and its caused a lot of strife. A good part of this is my younger brother, his way to do good is so narrow though he means well. But he looks down on so many and our relationship is damaged because I've chosen a different life. (hehe or ironically my tea drinking) I am really trying to come to terms with certain biblical concepts let alone an extra few books of theirs. He is very very logical minded, not exactly exceptionally intelligent, but logical as in, this leads to that and to that no exceptions. He is like many other LDS guys I know, and they reject diversity, culture, strength of character, passions so on. It is hard for me to see what makes me- me be so blatantly defined and rejected. I used to consider myself someone that was more like men but thats when I mostly hung around only guys. When I started having more mixed company I started realizing I wasn't different at all from the rest of the women I know and realized some big differences between male and female thinking. To the credit of men, the varities women have are usually only positive if she is centered. If shes not she is a real pain and a hard case to deal with. Women can be very fickle. Men have better momentum when it comes to moods than women usually, and its easier for a woman to stray off course. I really appreciate your expressing yourself in this matter and I completely agree with you. I wish more men could embrace those things. Thanks for dropping by, you strike me as someone with an incredible capacity for insight. Always a pleasure to talk with you. -White Tea

Let it be known I read and value everyone who reads and cares enough to say a little because of it. I've thought alot about what you said here, even though i didn't respond right away. I really admire your work. Thanks for those kind things, always, white tea

I often write out the way it sounds in a spoken way in my head. I used to read a lot of what I wrote as a requirement in a class of mine. If I were to read it, I would read it with more of a bitter tone. It fits for me, because it is simple speaking to people who only accept the same. Maybe I've read too much Linda Pastan lately, but I like the punch to be in the middle, the end to be like a passing thought before I go, something a little unwoven. Thank you for reading by the way. I like your work. :)