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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (87983)	11/3/2004 11:36:30 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Hi Grainne Am I all well? Hmmmm. Lookidit this way: I'm still pulling up daisies! Imo that is a bonus. I also remember your name from way back ... the cyber-Cretaceous perhaps, when titans ruled the Net and fought spectacularly when not building pyramids or stuff. Are you still in [previous place]? I think that your fears about being ignored may politely be ignored. Your writing has a straightforward lyrical quality (much like my own ~ under the trifling condition that you like Kabuki performed by drugged auctioneers ~) and you have many old friends around. As for the world we find ourselves in: one question stands out imo. Are we merely getting older and wiser in the ways of this world, or are things really going straight into the Pampers? Free speech for those who can afford it. A systematic rooting-out of humanity from political office. I could go on, but in the words of Abraham, "But why?" My personal world has sharply contracted. I am, uh, retired, and a number of ailments have converged to leave me rather less than I was. But my family (bless'em!) have seen fit to ride it all out, and so I am warm, washed and on DSL, bwahaaahahhh<gasp!> Helen is six and sometimes frighteningly precocious. But she is socially adept (to her father's relief and joy) and genuinely warm-hearted. Tom is 4 and suuuuch a boy. He has a less effervescent nature than his sister, but he can think very deeply about a thing and seems to have inherited someone's love of a precise phrase. He started talking quite late (especially compared to the other leading brand) but from the git-go he has been grammatically and syntactically aware. He simply won't say it if he doesn't have confidence in how he'll say it. Helen was more of a shotgunner, but then again she is also more matter-of-fact about being corrected. I see purity and simplicity and hope in their eyes, and it leaves me contented. Our world may be collapsing around us, but theirs is being framed and they're happy in it. Perhaps that is what it takes, a bit of perspective and the willingness to allow the young some leeway to like their world. I only visit SI sporadically these days. It isn't for an external reason; it is a reflection of an agoraphobia that seems to be a consequence of being me here now. cheers lrr