On Line
The distance is the dilemma. The pain that on-line relationships bring is a paradox. The jealousy is just as in real life, yet without true commitment since the two are truly not together. There is an unfulfilled knowledge of another inside a very deep knowing. There is a longing for love and a desire to live it. This is a medium that may drive us to madness, yet like anything that is obsessive, it will either be our undoing and or a huge learning experience. There is a real life and we are in it, and in a personal way of pursuing that life. The ultimate truth is in not really knowing anything and yet the pursuit of that knowing remains our passion for life and the things that nothing creates.

I will not say good bye as in forever. I will say, you are a great person and I wish you well in your travels and here is to hope we may meet again (even though we haven't, really).

prose and background by Gary Hodges

"The Music of Silence"
by Jean-Paul Avisse