"Coming OUT of Hiding:

A Retrospective Journey through AIDS..."

Michael Wallace Connett

"On Coming Home" "Home is not a place; it is an attitude.  It is an attitude which depends on how much we are able to feel at home with ourselves as well as with others.  Home is something which happens to a person; homecoming has less to do with geography than it has to do with a sense of personal integrity or inner wholeness. The most important of all endeavors in life is to come home.  The most terrifying of fears is loneliness.  It means that one has become a stranger to himself, and consequently, to others.  To be lonely is to feel fear, to be forever unsettled, never at rest, in need of more reassurance than life can give. Someone truly loves us when he brings us home; when he makes us comfortable with ourselves, when he takes from us the strangeness we feel at being who we are.  We are loved when we no longer are frightened with ourselves." "Dawn Without Darkness" - Anthony Padavano The Compilation and Presentation of All Material on this Site is "Copyrighted and All Rights Reserved" by: "The Michael W. Connett-'LIVING' Trust" This story is about my most important endeavor in life.  To experience that greatest love of all; to truly love myself, to shed the strangeness I feel at being who I am and to no longer be frightened with myself.  This is my attempt to finally get myself home before I die... In regards to copying anything from this site remember that all of my personal photos and articles are copyrighted.  In regard to all other materials I rely on the "Fair Use" copyright law provisions. If you copy anything from this site to reprint make sure that you do too. I ask that you get my permission to reprint any of my personal materials from this site and that you provide a link back to me/this page. Here is the "Fair Use" provision. "Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include: (1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes; (2) the nature of the copyrighted work; (3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and (4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work. The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors." Copyright (c): The Michael W. Connett Living Trust/South Bank HIVe Page created: 02/27/2002.  Last Updated: Wednesday, June 9, 2010 10:57 PM