From: Diane Loffredo
To: [email protected]
Subject: Thank you Sheeps
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001

Sheeps,

I just wanted to share with you the response I got from my daughter after I sent her your post from the Perch. Just to let you know, we are not always close. We often have difficulty communicating with each other (as Mothers and daughters often do), but your words helped me reach out to her.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart... Nurse Betty/Diane

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Mom,

You dont know how very lost Ive felt these past few days, and really how much i appreciated that letter you sent me. Those thoughts were my very own when I came up here. I used to think all the time during those long lonely weekends about all the life i was missing out on, and realizing just how very short this one (and only one) i have is. And so starting from the first day its been like diving into the deep end of a whole new world of experiences I was so very afraid Id never have. But she is right, despite the good and the not so good that has come of it all, in my heart i know it is better this way. I may have been safe before, but my soul was dormant and my heart untouched.

I still quite often am scared that im missing out on so much, and so im going to try and continue not hesitating when i have a chance to go somewhere new, do something different, make a new friend.......to feed eternity with my bravery. Its all about freeing your soul to the utmost of your ability, and then beyond. Remember, we only get this one lucky life and a few moments to live it. I say moments because i know in the end that is what it will come down to; a collection of moments, some good some bad, but all special if they stand out.: ) We live our lives by moments, and i dont want to sit here and watch the few i have left pass me by. I want to savor them, and all that they may bring me.

So, thanks again, and PS dont forget about my birth certificate for the Bahamas. I wish it was Jamaica, or Italy for that matter, but ill guess itll have to do for now. : )

Buona Notte,

Katie

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Diane,

Thanks so much for sharing your daughter's response. Reading it, I thought of two things...first, how much Russell's energy has effected so many. And secondly, that your daughter seems to have a good head on her shoulders. She's going to do fine in life. I'm glad we could all help. : ) Thanks again for sharing.

Hugs, Sheeps/Susan

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Finally Russell, just something I thought you might appreciate....I think it was posted way back in November sometime....

HERE IS WHAT I WANT...

for Russell. Not that I presume to know what he needs, please don't flame! - but knowing as much as I do, and seeing what I see, and having some good hard experience of life under my belt to guide me, I want these things for Russell:

A soulmate/woman/mate/wife WHO......

is strong and knows herself, and can stand up to his strong personality.

Someone who appreciates his commitment to acting as an art.

Someone who is creative in her own capacity.

Someone who respects nature and wildlife as he does.

Someone whom his family likes and respects.

Someone who has a lot of patience.

Someone who can laugh at his temper.

Someone who reminds him who he is, and who he was in the beginning, before Hollywood.

Someone who can cook. Really well!

Someone who will travel with him, put up with him and his intensity during shoots, and easily entertain herself meantime, wherever he takes her.

Someone who sees the travel as a blessing and learning experience, and doesn't come to resent it.

Someone who can ease him gently through the faux-pas he is so adept at creating in his life, with bottomless respect and love.

Someone who will raise some kids with him and for him.

Someone he can come home to, who understands he'll need that ....

Someone whose own life doesn't happen in a public forum.

Someone loyal to family.

Someone who doesn't use looks to get what she wants. Ever.

Someone who knows how to be alone, and knows her own strengths.

Someone not afraid to get dirt under her fingernails, as long as he's beside her.

Someone with some real musical ability and appreciation.

Someone his mates like too.

Someone Russell can walk into a Hollywood gathering with and be photographed with and be proud of.

Someone he never has to hide or rescue, to his own detriment.

Someone who will put up with his bossiness...as Henry Higgins says, "she will listen very nicely then go out and do precisely what she wants."

Someone who won't feel isolated at the farm, but will welcome the peace.

Someone secure enough in herself to know when he needs time alone, and to go entertain herself happily, until he comes looking for her...

Someone not afraid to say..."Hey, I don't care WHO you are on that set, you don't get to talk to me like that."

Someone who knows he'll stop smoking when he himself is ready to do it, not when everyone else wants it.

Someone who will listen to him wax eloquent, philosophize, and rant, play a bad song; and listen politely, long after she is so tired of it she wants to scream...

Someone who doesn't just want to fuck a star for the night....but wants to love him in a way that feeds his soul and his body. Every time.

Maybe MOST important...someone who will look him in the eye, and say "I love you. I feel for you. But right now, you are wrong about this, and you're being a jerk."

Someone whose voice on the phone far away, on a night when things are not going well, will say, "Russell, just come home, Luv. It will all seem better with time and distance. I'm waiting here...where OUR world is."

Someone who is first and foremost the best friend he ever had.

.............................. THAT will be someone who deserves him. Just my humble opinion. For what it's worth.

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