Joy Unconfined

that’s great.

If you have a comment about something in my blog…

that’s great, too, provided you place your comment in the ‘comments’ section of the blog.

Names are often changed or left out to protect the innocent, or not so innocent. Full disclosure is certainly NOT something I do here. Most of what I write is tongue-in-cheek, even the seemingly emotionally distressed things. Sometimes what I write is meant to make other people think… about a situation… about their own situations… about abstract ideas… or sometimes it’s just to make people laugh, or cry, or just to blow off some steam.

When placing information online for people to see, one should expect that others will have an opinion about what is written, or have something to say. These things are welcome.

Things that are not welcome:

Sending an email that could have just as easily been typed in as a comment on the blog.

Calling a phone number that was never directly given to you, having never been invited to call, only to leave a message that could easily have been typed as a comment on the blog.

If you are doing these things, you need to realize that I am not in a personal conversation with you. I write what I write for my purposes, and post it for people to see, as a group. If you wish to respond, please do it in the group setting as I intended.

I object to being contacted by a person who was not given permission to do so. It makes me uncomfortable. You do not know me well enough to take such liberties.

These comments are not meant to be rude, but I want them to be perfectly clear. I am making them public because I want other people to see them as well, on the off chance that they may find themselves in this situation… on one side or the other.

Brief online communication does not constitute a close, personal relationship. Friendliness should not be construed as a license to enter into someone’s life any further than they have given you cause to believe you could.

Please understand this. I say these things with as much kindness and forebearance as I can muster. (And these days, it’s amazing that I can muster them at all.)

In a nutshell: Back off. I do not respond well to intruders.

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