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To: ManyMoose who wrote (124162)	11/5/2006 10:16:46 AM
From: Carolyn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 225578

That is neat! Is it true? Did you do that? The beauty, the peace, the quiet. But you were so young!

To: ManyMoose who wrote (124162)	11/5/2006 3:51:22 PM
From: Ken Adams	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

MM, That's a really great story! I had a friend who was stationed in the fire lookout atop Shadow Mountain, just outside Rocky Mountain Nat'l Park. It could overlook a great deal of the park as it was up above 9000 feet. My brother and I hiked up to visit once. It was a several hour hike and we got a good education on what all the ranger was up to. He was older than me and had a wife and baby with him. It was a 90+ day assignment, because by then, snow was ready to start falling.

To: ManyMoose who wrote (124162)	11/5/2006 7:35:41 PM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

That was wonderful...so very descriptive, I almost felt myself a part of the action. Prescription is typically contrasted with description, which observes and records how language is used in practice, and which is the basis of all linguistic research. Serious scholarly descriptive work is usually based on text or corpus analysis, or on field studies, but the term "description" includes each individual's observations of their own language usage. Unlike prescription, descriptive linguistics eschews value judgments and makes no recommendations. Prescription and description are often seen as opposites, in the sense that one declares how language should be while the other declares how language is. But they can also be complementary, and usually exist in a dynamic tension to each other. Most commentators on language show elements of both prescription and description in their thinking, and popular debate on language issues frequently revolves around the question of how to balance these.

To: ManyMoose who wrote (124162)	11/5/2006 7:41:57 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 225578

WOW, MM!! What a great short story and perfect pictures to go with it!....I've been going at warp speed lately and missed it, but saw that C & R had recommended it, and you thanked them, so had to go see for myself. Did you write the poem at the end? Or did Sandberg? It's wonderful, whoever did.... Hope you do compile a book of your short (and long) stories....You would sell it, especially if you put in some of your thoughts for living....aka "Everything I Know I learned in Kindergarten" by Robert Fulghum... Here's an interesting link for you....Maybe we can see your name up there in lights one of these days....Good Luck! personalsuccessradio.com

To: ManyMoose who wrote (124162)	11/6/2006 10:38:06 AM
From: PatiBob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

No kidding??? What a great story!!!!