Bill

Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 18:05:28 -0600
To: clburke@passport.ca
From: sohlcln@sasknet.sk.ca (Bill Ursel)
Subject: From Sorrow to a  Fortunate Friend

Hi Carolyn. You feel that you're no longer an original thinker. Well, think on this . . .

Original thinkers spend their lives attempting to build bridges between theory and praxis/practice. It is not the bridge that is key, it is the mortar of thought and the brick of intention and conviction that define the thinker.

Just some words from me . . . I do feel that you are an original thinker. That does mean that any thought that processes past the synapse or the neural net has to be the 'first time' it was conceived. How, in fact, can that really be determined Carolyn? Is definition based on published ideas? Academic recognition? Or is the defintion a series of acts, a life, be it a Nelson Mandela or Fred the Baker down the block?

Don't sell yourself short madam. :)

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Sorrow (10/8/96) gave me cause for concern again. I get a sense that friends are awfuly self absorbed at times. I wish they would make more time for you and them, rather than them alone.

---- The letter to that special friend is indeed a gift. That friend is fortunate indeed. Take care, Bill