Sorry, Tex…don’t go away; especially mad
I’ve been working on this for a couple of days, now, having written and re-written it a few times. Since I seem unable, for some odd and unknowable reason, to post on Tex’s threads, I guess I’ll have to put it out there myself. Which is probably better, anyway; after all, if you’re going to prostrate yourself in apology, what better way than publicly, right?
And now, down to business:
Tex; you and I disagree on many things; not a soul-searing revelation, obviously, but a true statement nonetheless. Sometimes, when I get into a particularly up front interaction with you in which sparks may be flying, that fact gets my German-Scotch-Irish up (in other words, it brings out the European in me--EEEEK!!!!).
I wish to apologize for my somewhat boorish behavior on my thread the other day.
I can sometimes be a little too sarcastic in my responses, and I’m very sorry to have made you feel as though your opinions did not matter, if that’s an accurate assessment of your feelings on this. That wasn’t my intent.
Some of what I said to you was meant to be humorous in nature, but you, apparently, didn’t take it that way….that happens sometimes with me, especially when I try to convey my lighter tone in a text-only format, which is difficult. I’m sorry.
Other of what I said, however, was not, and I won’t apologize for some of my views; I do find you hopelessly naïve and somewhat blind-by-choice. You, after all, unapologetically find me racist and crass; I can accept that with a smile and move on, even if I don’t agree with it.
It seems that, from our own individual perspectives, we perceive things about the other; aspects that we may not see in ourselves. That’s they way it is, though. Can we just call it as we see it get on with life? In the immortal words of the Rodney King---- "Can’t we all get along?"
I don’t dislike you, Tex…..not at all. On the contrary, I admire you and your family for enduring the life you have chosen. It’s not easy being a military family, I’m sure, and, believe it or not, I pray every night for you and those like you (well, perhaps not individually "you", you understand-----but you’re in the barrel there, somewhere). You’re good people, Tex, and I admire your strength of ideals, even if I don’t completely agree with their basis.
Let’s be friends. Forgive me?
Yours, Robert E. Denham
"Friendship is everything…..it is almost the equal of family."----Don Vito Corleone, "The Godfather