For just about twenty years, give or take, TES has been a fundamental part of my life. When my health began to fail, i was at the heart of my involvement – presiding officer of the BOD, with Board members I had genuine regard and high hopes for. There was, for the most part, real teamwork and a pretty unified drive by hardworking people to make things better.<\/p>\n
But my body betrayed me, and I spent more and more time away from a place and community i had worked hard to put my mark on, to improve and help grow. Eventually, I could not do it anymore. My health, my medication, my stamina, my liberty, all these things were so terribly compromised. The men who succeeded me – Sweetcandymike <\/strong>and Naylandblake<\/strong> are both worthy and capable men, so i felt, that in that respect at least, TES was in good hands. <\/p>\n I’m stronger now, more whole and alive than I’ve been in years. I miss a lot about TES. I am thinking of trying to make the effort to reconnect with my lost roots, reintroduce myself to a body which may not know me at all, to faces I may not recognize, to a place which has changed in ways I don’t know and may not understand.<\/p>\n Is anybody still out there? Anyone left? Is there anything there? Has it grown? Died? Changed? Flourished?<\/p>\n It’s going to have a price to do this; everything always does – is it a price worth paying?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For just about twenty years, give or take, TES has been a fundamental part of my life. When my health began to fail, i was at the heart of my involvement – presiding officer of the BOD, with Board members I had genuine regard and high hopes for. There was, for the most part, real […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}