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To: nihil who wrote (36352)	8/28/1999 1:36:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 71178

Thanks for the info, nihil. I hope you will be around for a long, long time. I don't know how old you are, or Joan is, but I understand that you and she are the oldest on the thread ~ as well as the best educated, most well-rounded, most sapient, and frequently the most interesting. So I hope it is true that age brings wisdom. As for me, I am trying to clean off my desk, I see that yesterday I printed out the text of Chairman Greenspans's speech at Jackson Hole, a "brainstorm" from the Toqueville Asset Management thread on the price and value of gold; the most recent "Skeptical Investor," and a couple of Gilder Technology Reports (I just subscribed). Not to mention a lot of information from the International Baccalaureate home page in Geneva (for Ben). So, I think I am becoming interested in investing again, probably because I am fairly certain that we'll buy the house we have a contract on, and now I know how much money I have left over to invest. But I am amazed at the level of sophistication I've achieved in a year. It's just easier for me to read at a complex level than it ever was in my life, which I attribute to nothing other than maturity. I am astonished at the courses Ben will be taking in the International Baccalaureate program, and envious, too. When I was a kid, there was no Gifted and Talented program, although the IB program is even beyond that. One of the core courses is the Theory of Knowledge, that's for tenth graders. It makes me sick to think about how much time I wasted. But, you know what? Once we're dead, all the knowledge, all the wisdom, all the understanding, are gone. Unless we pass it on. That's the challenge I've set for myself, not just to learn, but to pass on what I've learned. Somehow.