To my FList, with humility, respect and love

I have realised something important recently, looking over my year and a half on LIvejournal, and I want to raise it collectively rather than individually.

Everyone on my friends list in LJ is amazing. Deeply, movingly, humblingly, amazing.

There are people on my list who talk about their lives with a frankess and courage - and fragility and fury and tenderness too - that is profoundly moving. They talk about how mental illness has affected and is affecting their lives, or sexual assault, or othe