Bodhi Tree 10-22-2005, 09:53 AM It is true that I wanted to leave and I asked the mods to delete my account, but as soon as they did I found myself not able to use the options to read old threads and old posts again.
Not only that, but I felt like many good friends and people that I appreciate suddenly disappeared from my life.
Some kept in touch through e-mail and IM, but I missed interacting with people here.
Even though I only signed up in order to be able to use the options and promised myself never to post, my fingers just hit the keyboard and I did post.
I notified the mods as soon as signed up and they encouraged me to stay. I have also PM-d some of my friends here who promised to keep my identity a secret.
I keep absolutely no grudges against anyone, least of all the person who posted a hurtful message. Reading her posts I also realised that her and I share a similar past and understood why her post hurt me so much.
I won't be here as often as I used to because my job is getting more and more hectic. But I'm here and I preferred to tell you that.
I had no intentions to invent a character because Loucine was me. I just thought that Bodhi Tree could be a quiet version of Loucine.
My name is Aline by the way.
Michele 10-22-2005, 09:59 AM welcome back!!!
Ive watched you post under your new name and have been eerily awed and wondered what was so familiar....
CabinFever 10-22-2005, 10:01 AM Haha...well the cat's out of the bag now!!! Welcome back Aline!! :D
Chatterbox 10-22-2005, 10:06 AM Ditto. Ditto. :D
Harrison 10-22-2005, 10:09 AM There you are! "Never say never."
Glad to have you back, my friend. :)
Despina 10-22-2005, 10:26 AM My good friend - I'm soooooo glad you are here again Aline - just like old times!
MerAlove23 10-22-2005, 10:38 AM Welcome back Aline!!!!! I actually like this new name!!!! I hope your work is prosperous and exciting for you and you get all the satisfaction you deserve for all your hard work!!!
welcome back I can't wait to see you posting!!
kathyw 10-22-2005, 11:35 AM ((Hugs)) Welcome Back Aline...we've missed you around here...and also in chat...glad to see you've come back. :D
thatgirl 10-22-2005, 11:40 AM I read your posts over and over and thought to myself "This person sounds exactly like Loucine"
I thought it was very strange but accepted it for what it was.
Now I know why I felt that way.
Welcome back.
teddikat 10-22-2005, 11:44 AM So glad you came to your senses!! you have so much to add even if I don't always agree with you....
welcome back!!!1
SoraNoYume 10-22-2005, 11:49 AM Welcome back!
Hahahahaha its like an addiction......nobody can really stay away......just have to have your Ageless "fix" once in a while..........
Love,
Sora
Bodhi Tree 10-22-2005, 01:26 PM Thank you for welcoming me among you again. Two years is a long time and I do admit having felt a sudden void when my account was deleted.
I have learned so much here, and Teddikat, it would worry me if you said the contrary. If everyone agreed, the earth would not spin.
Amina, it is a great honour for me to be appreciated by someone as wonderful as you, I'mtruly blessed.
Of course sooner or later you would have found out who's behing the Bodhi Tree, one thing I have never succeeded in being is "fake".
I'll do my best not to annoy anyone, but I can't make promisses on that :o
please be patient with me when I'm in one of those baaaaaaaaaad moods.
sheila4pd 10-22-2005, 01:31 PM (((Hugs Aline))) :D
Welcome back chica!
l'angelo-di-S. 10-22-2005, 01:36 PM WELCOME BACK
HUG FROM YOUR ITALIAN BROTHER :)
bubbleee 10-22-2005, 04:41 PM Welcome back, Loucine. I had hoped you wouldn't stay away for long.
Why did you pick the name Bodhi Tree?
Should we now refer to you as The Artist Formerly Known as "Loucine?" :rolleyes:
Hey, that was my 500th post! :cool:
fos4snt 10-22-2005, 05:23 PM *cartwheels* YAY!
~phos
Bodhi Tree 10-22-2005, 06:09 PM cheers everyone, glad to be back!
why Bodhi Tree bubbleee ?
Because my sister who is 20 years my elder, a wonderful artist, who raised me and stood by my side all these years is a Buddhist nun. A few weeks ago she moved to a monastery in the Far East.
whiterose 10-22-2005, 08:29 PM So glad you decided to stay with us, Aline.
((((((( hugs ))))))))
Rozie 10-22-2005, 08:38 PM Lol lol lol!!! :D Welcome back!!
BTW, that was a good one Mark. Made me think of a very pertinent song by that "other artist". Check out the song "Illusion, Coma, Pimp and Circumstance" on Prince's 2004, Musicology. Its a hoot!
LADave 10-22-2005, 08:43 PM Welcome Back Aline! :)
skatergirl 10-22-2005, 09:32 PM Honey what happend!!!! Write me!! I miss you! ((((hugs))))
special K 10-22-2005, 11:21 PM Woohoo, you're back, Aline! Don't ever let frustration take you away again because WE NEED YOUR VOICE OF REASON, INTELLIGENCE,
WISDOM, and NON JUDGMENT HERE !!! You have such a depth of experience to share with others to support and encourage us all, glad you changed your mind.
Hug hug hug,
Karen
Hope there is more room for for under that Tree Of Enlightenment??
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a3/asq221/Tree.jpg
I think I wd change my nick to Cedar tree !!!
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a3/asq221/Lebanese-cedar.jpg
(Hee Hee Just Joking, Got the Joke Aline ???)
1love 10-23-2005, 06:55 AM They always come back.... and if they can't, they want to. :)
Faith47 10-23-2005, 09:40 AM Yééé!!!!
Heureuse que tu sois de retour Aline :D
lencarol 10-23-2005, 09:54 AM I am glad you are back, Lou. I wondered where you went and why. Don't always agree with what you say, but your posts always so interesting and insightful.
Really interesting, too, about your sister being a Buddhist nun. What wonderful things you must have learned from her. I was just looking up monasteries to visit the other day, ha ha--in Texas?! When I lived in Portland, OR would visit several in that vicinity on weekends. Love and miss the PNW, just not the rain!
Bodhi Tree 10-23-2005, 10:35 AM lancarol, I left my family when I was 16 and have been living in seperate countries for the past 20 years. I learned a lot from my sister but not since she became Buddhist. I used to only see her once a year but we talked on the phone about 5 times a week. Now I can only be in touch with her occasionaly. Life in a monastery has very strict rules.
I am however attracted to Buddhism as a philosophy, the same way I'm interested in Sufism but I am nowhere near considering any in debth research in any form of spirituality for the moment.
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