[MD] Suffering the Seeds of Change

[Ian Glendinning]

Hi John et al,

The "story" of how I came to read and recognize the significance of
ZMM (and then Lila) very late in life was the subject of the first
half of the paper I gave at Ant's first MoQ conference.

More to the point, why I failed to read it until almost 30 years after
it was published, and 15 years after I had failed to pick up on it on
a reading list concerned with quality and excellence (in the everyday
business / service / product sense) and as a reference in several
texts I did actually read. Doh!

I was probably an archetypical classical rational "scientific"
engineer and business manager struggling with a "something ain't
right" feeling for the majority of my working life - when 9/11 and its
aftermath finally woke me up to the fact it was so not right that I'd
better find a better alternative.

The rest is, as they say, history - my history as a blogger. Ironic as
a Brit, given the 9/11 kick in the butt, that the paper I spilled my
guts in should be delivered on 7/7 - exactly 4 years ago today
coincidentally.

Take care
Ian

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:41 PM, MarshaV<marshalz at charter.net> wrote:
>
> Yes, thanks all...
>
> My late husband and I had a ritual of reading to each other before we went
> to sleep, reading wonderful things we wanted to share.  I often would read
> ZMM to him, and sometimes LILA.  In fact, when he was dying and I was
> primary caretaker, I read ZMM to him.  He seemed content to hear my voice,
> and reading it gave me strength.
>
> I now have an mp3 version of both ZMM and LILA on my iPod, I like to hear
> them, but occasionally I will still read them out loud, to no one in
> particular.
>
> Marsha
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> At 10:22 AM 7/7/2009, you wrote:
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>> Thanks for the sharing guys.  It fascinates me to hear the differing ways
>> ZAMM came into your life and the way it affects some people and others not
>> at all.
>>
>> It's been my experience that reading it aloud, much like the way the
>> author
>> read Walden to Chris, is the best.  With pauses for questions and little
>> hints - "Hey, pay attention to this part... did you get that?"   Exactly
>> the
>> way ol' time chautauqua worked, s'pose.
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>> J
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