[MD] What I got for Xmas

[John Carl]

Well Dan, it's not the size of the book but how fast a guy can turn the
pages.

But you  sure nailed the bullzeye on me not impressing the chicks.  Never
been my forte and on this side of 50, all hope is lost.

I gave up drinking for a year, last year's resolution.   This year's
resolution is to start again, but with moderation.

We'll see how it works out.

Fortunately, I've got the steely-eyed Lu looking over my shoulder.

Gimmee your address and I'll send you a better present than a bottle you
can't drink or a book you can't read.

Contentedly yours,

John


On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Dan Glover <daneglover at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh my yes good x-mas presents for sure... 'specially the speedos. Wow.
> Way cool. But can you carry that big ol' book around in your pocket? I
> bet not... and I'm sorry but something tells me you're not going to
> impress the chicks with what's in it either... maybe put them to sleep
> though.
>
> All I got was a big bottle of booze... and I don't drink. Oh well.
> T'is the thought...
>
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 4:09 PM, John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Gold Lame Speedo and the Basic Writings of Josiah Royce
> >
> > That's pronounced "lam-ay", not "lame".  But either pronunciation would
> > apply I guess, if it's your intent to convey the inner meaning, I mean.
> >
> > I will probably not grace you with the sight of me in my speedo, but I
> will
> > inflict my volume of Royce upon you.  I feel especially inspired this
> morn
> > by my dialogue with Ham and Marsha's posted poem.  Both made a deep
> imprint
> > upon two different aspects of my thought.  Little moments of grace,
> > inflicted by others when you need them the most- that's what community is
> > all about.
> >
> >
> > "When I review this whole process, I strongly feel that my deepest
> motives
> > and problems have centered about the idea of the Community, although this
> > idea has only come gradually to my clear consciousness.  This was what I
> was
> > intensely feeling, in the days when my sisters and I looked across the
> > Sacramento Valley, and wondered about the great world beyond our
> mountains.
> > This was what I failed to understand when my mates taught me those
> > instructive lessons in San Francisco.  This was that which i tried to
> > understand when I went to Germany.  I have been unpractical,-- always
> > socially ineffective as regards genuine "team play," ignorant of
> politics,
> > an ineffective member of committees, and a poor helper of concrete social
> > enterprises.  Meanwhile I have always been, as in my childhood, a good
> deal
> > of a nonconformist, and disposed to a certain rebellion.  So much of the
> > spirit that opposes the community I have and have always had in me,
> simply,
> > elementally, deeply.
> >
> > Over against this natural ineffectiveness in serving the community, and
> over
> > against this rebellion, there has always stood the interest which has
> taught
> > me what I nowadays try to express by teaching that we are saved through
> the
> > community."
> >
> > Professor Royce,
> >
> > Walton Hotel, Philadelphia
> > December 29, 1915
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