TPM Cafe is now in its third incarnation.  May it fare well.  We, your
predecessors bid you welcome:  Be kind to one another.  Take care of
the premises.  Those who come after you will appreciate a place
where ideas are debated (not debased), where posters are respectful
(not derogatory), where guests see a lively community open to new
members.  If you are new, please bear with me.  We need your help.  (to get this message onto the recommend list)



The new Cafe lacks one thing former members relied on - a way to
contact one another.  Thus this "Message in a Bottle" - cast onto the
flood waters - when the "change-over" left many of us as "Cafe
refugees" - bereft of our former blog posts or any way to track our
"Back Bench" membership.  Back Benchers?  Those who came to the Cafe
for conversation, not for conflict.  Those for whom "everything under
the sun" was taken literally as a description of Reader Blogs.  Who
over time imagined a little "space" we called the Cafe Saloon: "a place
where you are always at home."  (and anyone was free to come)



If you are a TPM Cafe "Back Bencher,"  this Message in a Bottle is for you:

  The Saloon Lives on.  Perhaps you, like us,
became a Cafe refugee.  Maybe you miss Chuck's poetry, Glenn's music,
Howard's stories, cscs's questions and recipes.  (Or: PseudoCyAnts, Tom
Wright, artappraiser, Eric Stepp, TheraP, nascardaughter, Emma Zahn,
The Facilitatrix, Thinking... and more!)  Maybe you miss the humor. 
The creativity.  The civility. And all the political, religious, philosophical,
scientific topics and issues we managed to discuss as well.  Devon, our
former sage, has gone missing.  As have others.  We miss you.



  We want you to know we survived the deluge.  The community lives on,
is thriving, still has room for more.  We're keeping an eye on
"developments" at the "Mother Ship."  Meanwhile we're looking out to find you at:  http://projectlucidity.com/forum/index.php