First of all, I am a late-coming FY collector who 
*adores* Hotohori.  So, of course I paid attention 
when Leigh posted!  Now, that out of the way...

(Forgive me if my assumption about gender is 
wrong, paint my face red and flip the pronouns!)

I've been a little sad ever since Leigh told the 
forum she was dissolving her collection.  In one 
way, it's a good thing;  even though I was way out 
of my comfort zone for spending money on cels, 
others were not, and dreamlist cels are now 
eagerly awaited by many.

In another, how very sad.  Our galleries are 
borrowed glory.  We (with notable exceptions!) 
didn't draw or paint the cels.  But...we selected 
them.  Each one has a story.  There are the ones 
that we simply don't believe we actually have, the 
ones we struggled in some way to get, the ones 
that fell like gifts from heaven into our laps and 
the consolation cels that stands for the ones we 
really want.

Leigh's eye for cels is amazing!    Her cels are 
dramatic, meaningful and utterly beautiful in and 
of themselves.  Think about it, how many people 
are elated to receive even one cel from her 
gallery?  She had them all and together what an 
amazing gallery it was!  How sad that even though 
each individual cel still exists (and those cels 
will highlight and enhance numerous other 
galleries now) that THAT gallery, Leigh's gallery, 
is soon to be no more.

To everything there is a season.  I guess, maybe 
I'm mourning the passing of Leigh's gallery.  

All the best to you, Leigh, in the new season in 
your life.  May you be as astonishingly successful 
in it as you were in cel collecting!

-Kitt