Dear Organlearners,
Stanton Berberich <sberberi@uhl.uiowa.edu> writes:
>When I look at the pictures of my children, I see a progression of
>their lives developing into fullness. I fully enjoyed my children at
>each stage of their growth, and yet I realize as I look back, that at
>least part of the joy came from knowing that there was "a fullness
>of growth" yet to come (what I mean is this, if I did not believe that
>my child was going to grow and develop, there would have been a
>sadness as I watched him crawl; there would not have been delight
>if I knew that when he turned 20 years old he would still be crawling).
> Maybe you can see how this works. If I assume that the snapshot
>I see of a person (a particular post that is read at a particular time)
>IS that person then I might be tempted to address that person as
>"You CRAWLER": CRAWLERS have no place on this list; or at
>the very least, if you CRAWLERS want to participate you *must*
>WALK (which of course excludes them).
Greetings Stan,
Thank you for defending the phlight of learning so beautifully. I
appreciate it very much.
Learning is like sitting around a campfire in the wilderness -- from those
fit to make the trip to those who who barely made it, toddlers and
hunchers. All participate in the dialogue -- some speak more and others
listen more. Long after midnight wood is still fed to the fire -- nobody
can get enough. Sometimes, at daybreak, those who went to bed because they
could not keep it up any more, could still hear the remaining ones
speaking. The next night many of them are the ones to last until daybreak.
Rick, your list is a campfire in cyberspace.
[Host's Note: I like the metaphor, At. I'm glad to have all of you here at
the campfire! ..Rick]
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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