Yo,

[Guest guest]

I didn't so much " have faith " or not have " faith " (whatever that may

or may not be), but it did occur to me that if I just survived long

enough a moment might come along bringing me some notion of something

I could say to you that might be of (a) interest ( value or at

least not, for Thoreau's version of the meaning of " killing time " ,

_injuring eternity_...?!

But hey, if by moving south, you mean you're thinking of not just

investing in Antarctic " real 'estate' " (do you realise how many miles

below the ice cap ground is? Where it is, en effet, 'ground', and not

just water...), please let me know. There's a mountain there named

after my brother (one of the initial International Geophysical Year

seismologists/glaciologists to winter-over [1 1/2 years] and only a

few years ago retired from his annual returns (Antarctic " summers "

only). [Now he just has to trot all around the globe while people

interview him in what my sister-in-law a few years back irreverently

described as their attempts to talk " with these old geezers " before

they kick off.

Back in my Hollywood years (when I worked in a counseling facility

there, not in what LA-ers call The Industry) there was a roadside

billboard declaring that Living Well is the Best Revenge. As I never

got to Antarctica and obviously never will, I love this brand new

little fantasy of and Jan and various Antarctic-resistant

flora and fauna living at the base of a mountain surreptitiously (but

Officially!) named after my brother.

Well, at that I suppose I ought to confess I need perhaps plead

guilty to Uncle Henry . I have a Very Important Appointment at

8 a.m. and it's still only a little after 7:30. My Daunting

Challenge of the morning (to reconnect my printer just back from the

shop) proved undaunting after all so I'm a bit restless for the

nonce).

Cheers :-)

marte

[Guest guest]

Dear Marte, at 11:40 PM 2/12/2006, you wrote:

>I didn't so much " have faith " or not have " faith " (whatever that may

>or may not be), but it did occur to me that if I just survived long

>enough a moment might come along bringing me some notion of something

>I could say to you that might be of (a) interest ( value or at

>least not, for Thoreau's version of the meaning of " killing time " ,

>_injuring eternity_...?!

It seems to me you are concerned for no reason. I don't mind what you have

to say to me - my problem is I have been too busy to engage in too much

computer time online.

>Back in my Hollywood years (when I worked in a counseling facility

>there, not in what LA-ers call The Industry) there was a roadside

>billboard declaring that Living Well is the Best Revenge. As I never

>got to Antarctica and obviously never will, I love this brand new

>little fantasy of and Jan and various Antarctic-resistant

>flora and fauna living at the base of a mountain surreptitiously (but

>Officially!) named after my brother.

I was not suggesting that I would move to the polar regions - somewhere

along the great Australian bight would suit me - cliffs, sea, storms and

nobody for hundreds of miles in any direction.

>Well, at that I suppose I ought to confess I need perhaps plead

>guilty to Uncle Henry . I have a Very Important Appointment at

>8 a.m. and it's still only a little after 7:30. My Daunting

>Challenge of the morning (to reconnect my printer just back from the

>shop) proved undaunting after all so I'm a bit restless for the

>nonce).

See what you can do if you just go with the flow? :-)

love,

[Guest guest]

Thanks for your response, . I was really only trying to " get

an oar in " into the that day's dialog[ue?] between you and Dan.

Sometimes when people on the lists feel to me (for my kind of

shorthand) overly " Yang " I just write something in what, in part,

feels to me like a foreign language (i.e. foreign to " my 'yin' " ).

In this, just yesterday, I had (what, another? [:-(]) experience of

how people who really to many degrees and in many respects know each

other really well and know they " care " , have interests in common,

etc., can get into a bad tangle of what I've (for too tiresomely long

years) been shorthanding as " apples and oranges " , if the yin and the

yang (for another shorthand of mine) are at cross purposes.

So here's to Happy Valentines Day (if I MUST? :-( -- it's so

trivialised and commercialised around here?! Grr.)

P.S. to you, , specifically, once again, in the spirit of --

what would you prefer? Mercurius? The trickster? The hangman's card?

I stick by my fantasy of loving to think of you and Jan and

your " Antarctic-resistant " flora and fauna at the base of the

mountain named after my brother.

After all, what other Claim to Fame has a pore yin in a yang world

like some of the exchanges between you and Dan?

[i seem to be suffering from a premature April Fools Day " complex " .

The sun has been out at least four days here recently, and it's quite

gone to my head! Please, all, do make allowances!]

:-)

marte