Dear Friends,

Your words of encouragement and your prayers are most heartwarming and very, very much appreciated. I am a person who rather trys to share happy thoughts and not the sad ones and in that I suppose I never let you know that my life wasn't perfect.

In six months I shall be in Free Flight. I'll have my life back again, and I expect I'll be heading out of Petaluma to new places and new faces as well. I have a journey in mind that I'm rather looking forward to. I love to move to new area's. You get to know all about something you never learned before and meet many new people. I loved Seattle very much, but this special place I think I'll like even more. It has earthquakes as well, big ones and I suspect when I get there I'll have something to do, that has to do with my favorite past time, studying them.

Which just reminds me. Saturday I have another field trip at the coast with my Professor from SSU and he invited Bruce Bolt to come along. My daughters class in science is studying geo-sciences and she was thrilled to see some footage of Parkfield and Mammoth Lakes. She proudly told her teacher she had been to Parkfield twice and then unfortunately told him I was a geologist. I told her I could come to her class and talk about rocks and she begged me not to. I said "Oh, I could say, this is the green one I got from Parkfield and this is the brown one from Drakes Beach and so forth." She said I wouldn't pass as a geologist. Geez. So I said she could tell the teacher she was wrong and I was a seismologist and that she thought I might be able to pass for. Kids are funny.

I hope in sharing this personal story one of our message board readers out there is cyberland will benefit from the experience I've had. If nothing else I think its a way of sharing something we've had here for forever, love, kindness, caring, sharing and knowing, whatever befalls one of us, we are all there for each other. Today, I am so proud to be the person receiving your support. I shall never forget it.

Thank You So Much...Pat