Home is where my heart is.
Despite the many bumps in the road I think very fondly about
the events, spaces and rewards over the years. More importantly I think of all
my friends, past, present, and even future.
You all make me happy. All of you. And I feel so very lucky we are all able to share this
place with each other.
We've tried time and time again to extend the olive branch
and usher in some civility and stability by bridging a gap, (a chasm), with
management, but it doesn't seem like management cares. It has, in fact, been
made abundantly clear through recent events they have no time for this amazing
community, which they claim to care for so deeply.
You speak highly and confidently of your brilliant but
hidden efforts to sustain Home, but everything we see, hear, and have been made
to feel deeply in our cores is evidence to the contrary.
If you want to sabotage Home, keep it up. By alienating
deeply invested community members, you are only alienating yourself.
We haven’t been petty, not all of us -- not most of us. This
has been eating away at the heart of the community for some time now, and we have
been very patient, but only through the lens of constant disregard.
You fracture and wound when you act like it's a hassle offer
some measure of respectable and timely discourse. You
act outraged when the very people you are here to accommodate aren't happy, like
butter wouldn't melt in your mouth.
We love Home, Glasswalls. We love Home more than you, and it
is very clear to me now, many of us are more invested than you will ever
be.
I’m sorry to say "your"
baby has grown, and a complete disregard for all of us has brought Home into an
angsty adolescence desperately in need of guidance. The most troubling thing
about this is you've shown us all where your heart is.
We never asked for lines to be drawn in the sand. There are
people here who work harder than the NA Home staff FOR THE COMMUNITY, and have
never asked for a dime -- just take one look at page one of the Xi Continuum
thread. Our incentive was, and still is, being a community first, and we will
remain as such! We all deserve a measure of respect, and your THREAT to take
your ball and go home, breaking from professional courtesy under the guise of sitting
down to have a chat, just may be the straw that broke the camels back.
We are not just a paycheck for you to cash. More people are
realizing that everyday, and boy are they pissed. I'm not asking for a response
anymore, I'm giving it to one you didn't ask for.
If you can't figure out what we want, and what you need to
do, bear in mind we will.
There will always be dissenters, but there are clearly some
fundamental things on which I think we can all agree. Fighting against all
adversity to your point of view without acknowledging how our different
perspectives tie together will never bring you any closer to the truth right
under your nose.
Every one of us is part of a community, and together we all
have a voice. Home is where my heart is, but without all of us, Home is
nothing.
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