Dear Organlearners,
Greetings to you all.
The following story is for those who suffer my long contributions.
My granddaughter Jessica is now in her second year of primary school.
(Some of you might still remember her from The Blue Dog story.)
Last Monday evening she asked for some twenty A4 pages. I asked her why?
She said she had to do for school a task on milk. That will take one page.
But she want to do a project on milk and that will take many papers.
One look in her usually brown eyes, but now like black holes digesting
feverish all which comes into sight, made me realise she was again on a
"creativity trip". I gave her 8 pages and said that if she uses them well,
I will give her next time even more.
The next morning she came very early to our house. She was very excited.
She showed me her project. They were given the task of drawing one product
made from milk. She showed me seven drawings of seven different products.
The eight page was used to make a preface of the content. (Where she
learned that, I will find out in due time.)
She asked me what I thought of it. I said: "It is so good that I am now
sorry that I have not given you more pages." She smiled. Later I took her
to school. She was so proud and full of joy.
That evening I walked her and her mother to their flat. She asked me if I
can still teach at school. She knows that I was a school teacher when her
own mother was not yet in school self. I said "Yes," but also added as
precaution "I now have to teach at university."
She replied: "That is a pity because I wanted you to become my teacher at
school. But now you will have to become my teacher after school. Will you
be my teacher?" I said "Yes, by all means." Then I asked "Why?"
"Oh", she replied, "My teacher and my friends think I did far too much.
But they do not know the difference between a task and a project. A
project is much longer. Milk feeds us so that we can do our tasks. But I
want to help the farmer and cows with a project." I concluded the new bond
with: "I cannot wait for you to begin with your next project."
She suddenly ran off in front, dancing and singing along. Her mother and I
had to speed up our walking.
For Jessica the river of free energy is flowing, speading out in a delta,
the dance of LEP on LEC.
With care and best wishes
--At de Lange <amdelange@gold.up.ac.za> Snailmail: A M de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre Faculty of Science - University of Pretoria Pretoria 0001 - Rep of South Africa
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