[MD] Intellectual and Social

[John Carl]

Perhaps it is foolish of me to assume that joy exists anywhere outside of my
own sphere, Marsha, and yet sometimes, like the sun peeking through the
clouds, I see signs of it.

But I'll take your word for it.

John

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:33 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:

> 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:
>
> >
> > John,
> >
> > The promise of betterment existing someplace is very foolish.
> >
> >
> > Marsha
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jan 6, 2010, at 1:11 PM, John Carl wrote:
> >
> >> 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:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> 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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