• silverwhisper said on Aug 16, 2006....

  welcome, ginger soul! [i]felice di incontrarti[/i]? i know just enough italian to know that's italian. according to babelfish, it translate into english roughly as "pleased to meet you". it's nice to meet you. i joined soulcast early july, in response to an e-mail i saw about being paid to blog. i was interested, knew that blogging was something that interested me on some level, and well...here i am now. :> i know i already said this, but welcome to soulcast, ginger soul. :> ed

• gingersoul said on Aug 16, 2006....

  Thank you very much for you warm welcome! Yes, you guessed right, I am Italian. Moved here 10 years ago. Interesting country, still able to surprise me, i am still mentally adjusting, evidently. After all these years....i am interested in writing as well...hope my english will not be too much of a burden for me...hate making spelling mistakes or sentences building...it still makes me feel so stupid...i am trying to use this space to have open and honest discussions with other people, and cultures and identify better what makes of me an alien, what could make of me a better citizen of this country. The one i happen to live in now. Who knows tomorrow? Kind of spiritual journey mixed with practical everyday "behavior shifting"...what i call the moments in which i realize i am really different. But, who is not? So, thank again and, really, i hope to talk with you often...ciao.

• PAPERBACKWRITER said on Nov 05, 2006....

  Ciao Ginger!
  
  Grazie! Ti Amo!
  
  I have to be honest and tell you beforehand that this is the first blog entry I have read of yours entirely....
  
  I skimmed through your blog where you were not feeling well...I am sorry about that.  I can emphatize.
  
  I did not comment there because, what I have to say is out of place.  Thank you so much for the comments you have left in my blogs.  Some I have read thoroughly, some I have not but plan to do so in peace next week.
  
  I just want you to know how much it meant to me.  Showing your kindness in words, taking time to show appreciation.  I am very far away but I feel your soul touching mine.
  
  I feel not authentic enough, then again maybe I should stop being to hard on myself.  Well  because I do not practice what I preach.
  
  You see, I expect I would only believe people truly do like me if they have read all of what I have written.  Maybe eve all comments I have made...
  
  And yet I accept it from you, Jenna and Secretlife wholeheartedly, instinctively
  
  
  And yes, I feel ashamed because I feel a strong affection for you and expressed it in more than words and symbols but have not taken time to read all your blogs.
  
  And yes, I have not read your blogs only the comment you left to me and the comments you have left to the other blogs.  We seem to choose the same blogs to post comment to : ).
  
  I posted a very angry emotional blog...I feel better for it and I posted to not only literally get it out of my system but to overcome some fears...
  
  It suddenly occurred to me I did read one of yours thoroughly;the demise of your sister, my heartfelt condolence....
  
  Death of a love one still struck a painful chord in my heart.  My father died the year he would have visited me in my foreign home.  7 years past and it still hurts.  Maybe that is why I forgot....my sub-conscious is still protecting me.
  
  I went back to skim the blog where you got hurt...I only skimmed not out of disinterest but because it´s 1 am and I cannot concentrate anymore...
  
  But I see through fast forward reading that we share a common bond that is why I feel affinity towards you.
  
  We are both foreigners in a foreign land.  I guess, this answer the question that has been plaguing me for years:  would my life been different if I went to California and not here in Germany = ); I did not want to do that because I really wanted to see if anyone would make an effort to get to know me.  But heck!!! I love you and I don´t nee proof.  I feel it I trust the emotion BASTA!
  
  I feel much much much better now that I´ve written you.  I just got upset with the comments made by ed and zayda (not in the blog you commented on).  But I´m not upset with them, I´m upset with the reaction it got out of me.  I thought I´m over that reacting emotionally to words---they´re just words
  
  
  I´m just overworked and sleep deprived.  Better sleep now.
  
  Buona Notte (?)
  
  I had lots of Italian girlfriends during my student years here in Germany.  Unfortunately, they went back home and we lost touch.  One even went to Princeton for her masterals, she was from Milan.
  

• gingersoul said on Nov 07, 2006....

  Sweet Paper,
   
  your words really touched me....they are overhelming...i wanted to take the right time to answer to you....
  As i already told you....i too felt an immediate affinity and simpathy for you ......
  I felt your troubled soul underneath your happy, bubbling surface...that' what i am too....people think of of me as solid, strong, levelheaded person.... a rock.....and i let them see only the smile and the glamour....  
  But i recognized your pain....
   
  Its a gift from the Gods being able to have this connections...
   
  I know that others might advise from getting too emotionally attached to people met online...i know the danger and the frustration...
  but i take it as it comes..
  why overanalize a feeling this warm?
  Why labeling?  
  I enjoy reading your post and your comments, i love your silly, onomatopoeic sounds and i found each time more an d more reasons to read you....
  You are right: we are foreigners in a foreign country, we know the difficulty and the beauty of this kind of life....we know how alone we may feel....
  We can help each other a little bit...
   
  You got it right...Buonanotte.....:-)
   
  I know there a lot of Italians in Germany....we have been for Ducthes what Afro-American and now Hispanic are here for the Americans.....
   

• silverwhisper said on Jan 11, 2007....

  GS: to answer your question, i won't contact her b/c i don't think she'd be particularly receptive to unsolicited communication from me.
  
  ed

• gingersoul said on Jan 13, 2007....

   SW......so, what are you talking about? I am lost here....:-)

  since we knwo common people you might use them to tell me better.....

• silverwhisper said on Jan 14, 2007....

  i was answering your question from a different blog entry: why not ask the one person we both know whose e-mail address we both have. i'm not going to ask her to do that for the reasons i described above.
  
  i'll ask someone else for your e-mail address.
  
  ed

• silverwhisper said on Feb 07, 2007....

  got it, kill this at your leisure. :>
  
  ed

• kruuyai said on Feb 08, 2007....

  got it ginger

• gingersoul said on Mar 13, 2007....

  
  

• D6fer said on Mar 14, 2007....

  Much better than my first ginger....yours was more of an introduction....very classy....mine was a political rant.....might of pigeon holed myself.

• gingersoul said on Mar 14, 2007....

  D6......*blush*.....thank you....it looks to me like the first page of a teenager gilr's diary.. .....LOL......

• moonriver said on May 28, 2007....

  ginger -- another way (safer, although maybe a bit more complicated) would be to invite her to the chat room i set up, and go into private messaging, where you can then exchange emails. you can delete this too once you and glamourgirl establish contact. 
  
  Moonriver's Fireside Chat
  
  
  

• anonymous said on Feb 12, 2008....

  I dont care about the why.....i am just damned happy you joined SC....

• anonymous said on Feb 12, 2008....

  Yeah me too....

• gingersoul said on Feb 14, 2008....

   

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