[MD] Intellectual and Social

[MarshaV]

John,

Let me rewrite that properly:
   

The promise of joy existing somewhere else is very foolish.   


Marsha




On Jan 7, 2010, at 5:30 AM, MarshaV wrote:

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> John,
> 
> The promise of betterment existing someplace is very foolish.  
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> Marsha 
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> On Jan 6, 2010, at 1:11 PM, John Carl wrote:
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>> Marsha,
>> 
>> I have to go work, but I'll sit down tonite and let my fingers fly over the
>> passages promised.
>> 
>> In the meantime, to whet your appetite...
>> 
>> "in New England, if you are moody, you may wish to take a long walk out of
>> doors, but that is not possible at or even at most seasons.  Nature may not
>> be permitted to comfort you.  In California, unless you are afraid of the
>> rain, nature welcomes you at almost any time.  The union of the man and the
>> visible universe is free, is entirely unchecked by any hostility on the part
>> of nature, and is such as easily fills one's mind with wealth of warm
>> experience.
>> 
>> 
>> Now I must feel that such tendencies are of vast importance, not merely
>> today, but for all time.  They are tendencies whose moral significance in
>> the life of California is of course both good and evil, since man's
>> relations with nature are, in general, a neutral material upon which ethical
>> relations may be based.  If you are industrious, this intimacy with nature
>> mean constant cooperation, a cooperation never interrupted by frozen ground
>> and deep snow.  If you tend to idleness, nature's kindliness may make you
>> all more indolent, and indolence is a possible enough vice with the dwellers
>> of all mild climates.  If you are morally careless, nature encourages your
>> freedom."
>> 
>> 
>> Mea Culpa,
>> 
>> John
>> 
>> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 2:09 PM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
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>>> 
>>> On Jan 5, 2010, at 12:12 PM, John Carl wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I'm reading Royce's history of California right now and boy does he have
>>>> some interesting insight into the way an environment forms the individual
>>>> and society.  Reading his description of the attitude you get from living
>>> in
>>>> a place that isn't trying to kill you half the year is quite amazing.
>>> His
>>>> description fits me to a "T", and his contrast with the New England
>>>> Individualist and the California individualist made for some fascinating
>>>> reading that I'm itching to share with Marsha.
>>>> 
>>>> Lessee, it's gonna be 62 degrees today, I hope the rest of y'all are
>>> keeping
>>>> warm where you're at.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi John,
>>> 
>>> I'm interested.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Marsha
>>> 
>>> p.s.  The high temperature here today was 24-degrees.
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