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Thank you for the indescribable pleasure of reading your wondrous and powerful lines. The images are indelible, the feeling palpable. How fortunate I chanced here, through Julia's homepage. I shall be returning. There is so much beauty here...as well in the spirit of the person who created it.

-- Kate Jones

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I read the entry you wrote for today, as always you handled the situation with great patience, humor and gentleness! I would have expected no less from you! Good Job!!

Always,
Serena

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What a great web sight ......oops..site. The best I have seen for such a long time. I would like you to know that your kuala is lovely,.but feel the need to tell you that it is really a koala and that it is not a bear at all. It is a marsupial, a mammal that has a pouch to rear its young in. I hope you don't mind me pointing that out to you. Keep up the entertainment.

Love,
Rita from Australia.

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I was over to "Tale told with time" earlier today, Joan and was quite swept away with the sheer beauty of those flowers -- thanks for a real blast of colour! I enjoyed the journal, too, of course, and the drawings you've started including as a regular thing. They really are very good.

John Bailey
Journal Of A Writingman
Somerset, England

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I like your journal. I don't even want to think about whether or not I'll be doing this (keeping an on-line journal) in another two months let alone another two years, though. I'm properly impressed with your longevity.

I haven't read but portions of the bio and the journal itself (and the drawings and the photographs), but I will. You seem honest in your writing and that to me is important.

Bob
Sole Proprietor

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Love your [Celtic] web site...very much what I would have if I were to create one. We are in agreement on virtually all the same music. I first fell in love celtic music in the very early 80's. Clannad was my first choice (discovered them on the British television show Robin Hood the Legend) Set out to find an albumn back then and had to special order it. Cont'd to order many more.

Marissa (body in Texas, Soul in Scotland)

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Hi, Joan. My name is Todd. I have been looking at your website and I'm impressed! I haven't yet read everything, but I plan to.

Yours is the first site that I've come across that discusses triads in a personal way. I've been searching for a site like yours. You see, I'm in a triad with two other men. It's about 4 months old now. My partner of 8 years and I are seeing another man. It's scary and wonderful all at the same time! We've known there are others out there, we just hadn't found them.

Thanks for making your stories available! I'm going to share them with my significant others!!

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I enjoy looking through your site, it is so vast and interesting. Your art and work are very inspiring.

Carol
'Suicide Blonde'

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Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed your artwork, photos & everything else at your web site! I'm an ecclectic Wiccan with ecclectic sexual tastes, and find your page fun & informative.

GreyWulf

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Joan:

Thank you for your kind words and for signing my guestbook.  I have also spent some time on your site and very much admire what you're trying to do. All artists must, as a writing teacher once told me, learn to "walk naked down the street."  I think web pages are a true art form and call for a high degree of courage from the artists who attempt to express themselves.

Keep up the good work!

John Cartan
Cartania

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Just a brief note to say how much I enjoyed reading your "Best of the best in Celtic music" page! (It's now on my bookmark list, so I'll be back!) Your reviews are entertaining and very well written! I'm seriously into Celtic music myself (I'm particularly partial to traditional Gaelic music) and I appreciate a nice turn of phrase! Best regards from Canada!

Mark Porter

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I have spent most of this day reading things on your (family's) web Site, Metro'on. Mostly the "thumbnail biographies." I thought my short messages were long! I enjoyed them immensely, and look forward to reading more of what is there.

I feel such a kinship with all three of you! I, too, am pagan, love Celtic music, am active in the SCA (since 1982!) and...am in love with a transsexual [. . . .] I can almost feel that there is light at the end of the tunnel, and that love and life and joy are possibilities.

I'm not sure why I'm writing about this to you, except that your stories touched my heart, and I have no one else to confide in. I hope your love and joy in one another continue.

Brightest Blessings,
*CERIDWEN*

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Well, I borrowed a friend's Internet account for a while today and actually got to look at some of the pictures on your Web Site. It was so nice seeing what you all actually look like. Not that much different from what I imagined, actually--I felt like I was looking at pictures of old friends!

I also enjoyed looking at Joan's art, both the paintings and the sketches. I really loved the Mandala you had marked as your favorite--such beautiful colors!

I do hope to get a chance to borrow the computer again and get a look at the rest of the site.

Love to all,
*CERIDWEN*

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Thank you very much for your kind words. I checked out your pages too, and found much to enjoy there. Many of your poems resonate easily with me. It looks like you have a wonderful loving family. I read many things, and I'll be back again.

Peace and Love,
Tom Hefko
Gateway Of Gateways

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I have been scanning Joan's Journal, which until now I simply hadn't gotten around to. It explains more, to me, of what you three are like than anything else on your Web site. Joan's poetry is wonderful.

Lynn Bayley

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Thank you greatly for the guestbook signage :) Your poems are divine!

B*B,
Tess

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I just wanted to say thanks for putting your journal online. I read haphazardly, bouncing from topic to topic, and was thoroughly enchanted! I am also a writer trying to put together web pages of work, and I hope my efforts turn out half as well as yours.

I have to tell you that while I was reading through your pages, I ran across the "For When I Can No Longer Speak" page, and the first thing I read was "Joan's last entry" at the top of the page...I almost cried! I thought you had passed over already...and I had just found your beautiful words!!! I'm glad to know that wasn't the case!

Light and Liberty!
October

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Visited your site, and am slowly wandering around, discovering all the many things there. What an accomplishment! As if keeping a journal is not enough, the main site covers such interesting (and varied) topics. I look forward to visiting again.

Wing Sze
Diffusion

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Your last name, Lansberry, is very close to my mother's maiden name, Lounsberry. My mother is a geneologist, and I believe she's said pretty much all the Lounsberry, Lounsbury, Lansbury, and Lansberries all came from the same families - so we're probably distantly related. :)

I'm going to check out your journal now.

Julie R

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Hi Joan
Thanks for your help. By the way I ran across some poems written by George Milton Horschler. I have included them in the Horschler writings. I hope to have them included also in the software program that I am waiting on.

Here is one of them. He was known as Milton, he never married, and he was a motel operator during his lifetime.

IN MEMORIAM
TO AN EMPTY HOUSE

This house to me is home no more,
Its echoing walls are bleak and bare;
The staring windows and the door
Mutely say, no one is there.

This is a shell, 'twas once a home,
Where dwelt the soul which gave it life,
And haunting mem'ries sadly roam,
Unhampered now by peace or strife.

Oh happy days! Oh days of yore,
When first this roof did shelter me;
But it is vain to sigh; no more
Will come those days again to me.

Old Father Time with noiseless feet
Speeds swiftly on; we cannot stay
His endless flight; but we can greet
Each morn, a brighter newborn day.

Oh, grieve not when the day is done,
Or wish that thou couldst call it back;
But know, that thou, at set of sun,
Hast done thy task full well, not slack.

George Milton Horschler