I cannot begin to explain how humbled I am by your support. Many many thanks to everyone who gave. A great burden has been lifted.

More than ever I am eager to do my part to achieve single payer. I hope I am always worthy of your support.

For a comment on her last post in which I used a deplorable word. I am sincerely and completely sorry. You don't have to forgive me. I have always appreciated your work. I'm sorry you won't be around often anymore. I don't have your email, so this will have to do by way of apologizing. I hope you read it someday.

I just wanted to say that, b/c in the PB2.0, it's going to be very important for all of us to learn to say "I'm sorry," as well as "You're wrong!" Gossip, social status, cliques...these things must come to mean nothing to us, if we're truly going to have focus. I consider this a not just an "all about me" post, because I hope that it can start a conversation on how much the blogosphere has become mostly about personal swipe, insult, rumor, and the like. I think it's killing us, and I'm very sorry to have contributed to that which doesn't truly matter.

Again, FD. I apologize. If there's someone you regret offending in the blogosphere, consider it an open thread for the same.

Holidays are often times when the confluence of family, friends, food and drink bring new things to your table. This year at the Feral household I served my Pear wine with Thanksgiving turkey which went over better than I expected considering my parents and sibilings preference for sweet wine. Of course, I had some Riesling Spatelese as a backup in case the Pear bombed. So how was your holiday experience? Any pleasant (or unpleasant) suprises?