[MD] Best Wishes to All of My Old Friends

Sun Apr 26 01:32:35 PDT 2020

Hello , Dan, long time no see..
The blue herons along with the white are a real pest here.Two years ago a
blu heron was able to
steal most of my koi-he only left one in the pond.That one is still there
now, with some goldfish.I had
to cover the whole pond with nets on a permanent base.Another pest here is
the great cormorant which
is a special guest at the canal here.They own it!.
Few days ago the first otter was spotted in Zelzate in 50 years or so,..in
the yacht harbour.

Adrie

Op za 25 apr. 2020 om 21:42 schreef Dan Glover <daneglover at gmail.com>:

> Hello old friends,
>
> A couple years ago I sold everything, gave away what I couldn't sell, and
> moved from Chicago to Florida. I bought a shack perched precariously close
> to a canal in the swamps just outside Satsuma where I spend my days sitting
> in the sunshine reading and taking photos of gators, otters, and blue
> herons. I was delighted the other day to see a reference to Zen and the Art
> of Motorcycle Maintenance in Quichotte (pronounced Key-Shot) by Salman
> Rushdie but then again Rushdie seems to read everything.
>
> I am no longer writing as much as I did up north. I think part of that has
> to do with how it is sunny and warm and pleasant here even in December and
> January and February whereas in Chicago the weather was intent on killing
> me six months out of the year. I also like to think what I do write now has
> more quality than the torrent of words I once produced though in that I am
> most likely fooling myself.
>
> I am also exercising quite a lot these days: walking, biking, running,
> swimming. I daily take a chug from the fountain of youth and dammit if it
> doesn't seem to be working. Listening to lots of music both new and old,
> catch myself cranking up the volume. Miles Davis seems particularly apropos
> to these long and sunny Florida afternoons.
>
> Life is good.
>
> Dan
>
> A rip tide is raging
> And the life guard is away
> But the ocean doesn't want me today
> The ocean doesn't want me today
> (Tom Waits)
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 2:11 PM Adrie Kintziger <parser666 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Matt , and Krimel,and probably more of the usual suspects.. ,in the
> > run-up to my retirement and my daughter buying a house that i had to do
> up
> > myself (3 yrs work),
> > i halted my postings to the list.After some time it went silent.Probably
> i
> > was peeled out of the onion. Since then, i never checked anymore, nor
> did i
> > hear anything.
> > So you are the first ,Matt.
> > I still read many books.I fish extensively.Still riding my bicycle daily,
> > do about 12000 miles a year.I have the bulk of time now.
> > But its difficult to ride my normal tracks under lockdown and with the
> > Dutch borders closed up-normally i always ride in the Netherlands, but
> have
> > to stay in Belgium nowadays.
> > We cannot fish in the canal under the lockdown,and they are patrolling
> the
> > little forest we have there , so the only thing we can do for now is
> > cleaning , pruning the trees and
> > just sit over there , on some distance from each other. Its our personal
> > tranquility base , so we have to guard it.
> >
> > I do not know where you live Matt, and Krimel,i hope its a location that
> > allows you to weather this viral storms ...
> > Missed you all, Krimel included.
> > Adrie
> >
> > Op za 25 apr. 2020 om 19:36 schreef Scribe <Scribe at club-hub.com>:
> >
> > > Hi Matt,
> > > Good to hear from you. I too have reflected on the old day on the MoQ.
> In
> > > my
> > > memory they take shape as Good old days in a way few reflection on the
> > past
> > > do these days.
> > > I left the MoQ after Horse and Ant threaten to reveal my true name,
> > which I
> > > thought was a betrayal of trust. I went to graduate school in
> > communication
> > > but dropped out after a six years as an ABD with a master's, mostly
> > because
> > > I got a full time teaching gig. I mostly taught Psychology but also
> > classes
> > > in Communication and Philosophy. I retired last year and spent couple
> of
> > > months in Europe riding trains with my wife. We had similar plans this
> > year
> > > but they have been delayed...
> > > There is a serious irony for me with respect to the MoQ. When I entered
> > > graduate school, I was averaging four or five page of writing a day for
> > the
> > > community. Graduate school gave me writer's block. It was too focused,
> > too
> > > controlled, it had to be done. Don't get me wrong I wrote a lot for
> > > graduate
> > > school but it was not for fun and other than being an asshole on
> > Facebook I
> > > don't do it much these days.
> > > Anyway, love me or hate me I miss all of you, well most of you,
> fiercely.
> > > Krimel
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Moq_Discuss <moq_discuss-bounces at lists.moqtalk.org> On Behalf Of
> > > Matt
> > > Kundert
> > > Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2020 11:41 AM
> > > To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> > > Subject: [MD] Best Wishes to All of My Old Friends
> > >
> > > Hi Everyone,
> > >
> > > It's been three years since I've checked this email and five since I
> > wrote
> > > to the listserve.  I was just talking to a friend, outside, 8 feet
> away,
> > on
> > > a fold-out chair I brought with me, and she brought up ZMM.  We
> chatted a
> > > little while about it, and am going to give her one of the many copies
> I
> > > still have squirreled away.  I haven't read it since I taught it in
> 2014,
> > > but I still think it is one of the most remarkably structured books.
> > I've
> > > been teaching "close reading" for over 10 years now, and its
> > responsiveness
> > > is a sign of its enduring quality of thought and feeling.
> > >
> > > But that's just, maybe, the required nostalgic overture.  The real
> > > nostalgia
> > > I wanted to toss into this still pool was a Hello to any of my old
> > friends
> > > and interlocutors who still receive these emails.  I still feel that my
> > > participation many years ago was integral to my intellectual and
> > stylistic
> > > growth.
> > >
> > > I hope everyone is well.
> > >
> > > Best,
> > >
> > > Matt
> > > Former Apostate
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