blessings on the new soul with secular authority and a circle of joy. blessings, ilsa<div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:06 PM, samantha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sjatkins@mac.com">sjatkins@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">An update is in order. The labor was a bit longer and harder than Amara had hoped for. But she gave birth to a beautiful daughter, Vija (vee-ya). Attached is a low-res cellphone pic and some daat Amara took from the hospital. She hopes to get around to more of an announcement and sharing soon.<br>
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David C. Harris wrote:<br>
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I just saw this facebook status update from her sister Nina.<br>
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"Nina is the aunt of a healthy baby girl today!"<br>
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I haven't heard any other detail yet but I expect mother and daughter are resting.<br>
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I'd been thinking a lot about Amara and "Myrtle" today. I'd been struggling to reach the frontiers of home computing with a quad processor 8 Gigabyte RAM computer networked to specialized lesser computers. The usual unexpected hurdles gave me time to wonder "gee, Amara must be going into labor soon. I wonder how she's doing...". Today I finally got my Linux computer to give "birth" to a virtualized XP desktop, and I started thinking of the things that would no longer have to be dual booted. One of them was Second Life. And that lead to reading the transcript(s) of Amara's baby shower and experiences and thoughts, and the footnotes to her talk. And that lead me to the recent ExI messages and the wonderful news that she has succeeded in having a healthy baby girl.<br>
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Congratulations, Amara! In pursuing a deep desire you have also educated a lot of people, including me, and touched our hearts. Thank you, for sharing you and your precious little girl. May you both (and we) live long and prosper!<br>
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-- David Harris, Palo Alto<br>
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