From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V8 #81 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Monday, June 30 2003 Volume 08 : Number 081 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Speculation and Admiration ["Paxety Pages" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 06:43:10 -0400 From: "Paxety Pages" Subject: Re: Speculation and Admiration Welcome to the list. I think it's safe to say that almost anything we say now is simply opinion. I don't know that anyone knows any facts. As for Basia knowing her fans are out here, about a year ago a number of us wrote letters to her published mailing address expressing our support. So far as I know, no one ever got a reply. I know I did not. un abrazo, juan *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 6/28/03 at 7:44 PM Time Voyagers wrote: >Hello, Basha Admirers, > > I'm new to the group. I'm also a new fan of Basha. No excuses. I'm just >an ignorant fool who allowed the golden days of Basha to slip by >unnoticed. Perhaps I was lost in an ancient time working on a book and her >voice did not reach me at that time. Anyway, that's my loss. At least now >I can listen to her music, never tiring of it, and, in fact, discovering >greater depth each time I hear her songs. The fact that English was not >her native language is no barrier to her expression. Her poetry and >stories in her music are an amazing accomplishment. And her collaborations >with Danny and Peter > > Like you, I am hoping for some new glimpse, some new song from a gifted >musical poet, some hope that she will again catch the winged bird of song >and send new inspirations of music our way. If she chooses not too, >pursuing aspects of life that is precious to her with those she loves, >then I will listen in gratitude to the gifts of what she left with us. It >is a mystery to me the details of why we have not heard from her since >"Sweet Illusions" (not counting "Clear Horizon," which is a compilation of >her previous music). If anyone has the real facts on that, I would >certainly be most curious to know the answer. If she chooses not to say, >then it is none of my business. > > I would also hope that in our discussions we state clearly when we are >just speculating, expressing wishful thinking, or expressing our >trepidations. I would not want to be the mindset of the papparazzi or >tabloids. My only wish is that there is some way that she will know from >time to time that her fans are still out here and still find her music to >be timeless. > >So glad to find others ready to cheer her on. > >Fred ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V8 #81 **************************