"Prevention is not on the table."
- Roger Pielke Jr., Dir., Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at UC Boulder
(referring to options being considered in response to global warming)
from -- "How to Prepare a Planet for Global Warming"
C.S.M. 3/18/05
"They don't tell the rules to fools."
Jay Leonhart (1940- ), Sometimes I Think
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what
anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way
of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I
decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.* Georgia O'Keeffe
Isn't this the very thing that saves so many of us from living out our lives in a state of partial numbness?
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Excellent quote, Diane. Geogia O'Keeffe had one of the most interesting and non-numbed-up life I've ever heard about.
I have not been so enamored of O'Keefe, though I sure support her views in the last quote and will agree she certainly wasn't numbed up. Maybe I'm on a learning curve, not to dump on her. I am personally quite tired of the flowers, but am open to hearing more about her as a person, though I've read at least a bit.
She clearly had a core sense of self a-waiting to bloom, and it surely did, as she is iconographic as a persona.
My concern is more for those who've less sense of self than she ever did...
I see examples here all the time in the relationships and marriage forum, and have sympathy for those women who don't have a female example in their young lives of one with a strong sense of self beyond what folks tell ya'.
ossobuco wrote:My concern is more for those who've less sense of self than she ever did...
I see examples here all the time in the relationships and marriage forum, and have sympathy for those women who don't have a female example in their young lives of one with a strong sense of self beyond what folks tell ya'.
And I see examples of women with a strong sense of self that I admire such as you 3...osso Diane and Piffka.
(edited) Freeduck, I swear I didn't see you standing there...you too of course.
Very nice of you to say so, Panzade. I could make this a mutual admiration society.... it is very nice for a man to think strong-willed women are worthwhile. There was a time when that wouldn't be so.
Yes there was...thank God it's changing
Panzade--
I find you charming, witty, enticing and politically correct.
Three out of four ain't bad.
Panzade--
Sir, thou art too, too modest.
"The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board"
Grover Cleveland
I've been getting into old Grover. He was an interesting President. Bachelor when he was elected, he married his 21 year old sweetheart at the White House. First and only time that has happened.
Panz is very sharp and I think speaks his real opinions, how er' they fall, or keeps quiet. No fudging for general appeal's sake.
When I saw that Georgia O'Keefe quote, it reminded me of many women I've known. I was one of those who lived in a state of numbness for way too many years. On Letty's WA2K Radio thread, I posted a song from Hello Dolly that I could totally identify with. God I'm a slow learner, but it doesn't matter when it happens as long as it happens in one's lifetime.
Panzade, you are unique; only a few of you out there. Luckily, I found one late in life!!
Grover Cleveland was unusual. Tell us more.
I know the value of Diane, very high. I know Georgia O'Keefe is famously well regarded, especially by herself.
Not quite so sure of all that.
I am sure re Diane being a wise woman, although I suppose she goofs up once in a while.
Panzade... and we're a lot more fun.
And here's for the men:
"I am, sir, a brother of the angle."
Izaak Walton (1593-1683), The Compleat Angler
My Dad:
A fisherman is a jerk on one end of the line....
Waiting for a jerk on the other end.
I'd rather scuba dive.LOL
hmmm seahunt --- blubbbbluuubbbbb... blubbbbuuubbb
Shunnamite just posted this...I love it.
Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine. ~~Henry S. Haskins
