Re: [lost-world] Season's Greetings to all

[lex]

Happy holidays to you too - I was without a computer
for a while, so sorry for the delayed reply ... health
and peace in 2002

Love and kisses -
Lex

--- Michael Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, all,
> 
> I hope everyone is having a good holiday.  I receive
> so much holiday email 
> that to reciprocate is quite a task, but this year I
> thought I would make 
> the special effort to do just that, and to include a
> few folks I haven't 
> heard from in a while (and who haven't heard from
> me).
> 
> As Bilbo is so fond of saying, I don't know half of
> you half as well as I 
> should like; and I like less than half of you as
> well as you 
> deserve.  Well, something like that.  :)
> 
> As we conclude the first year of 2001, I can't help
> but remind myself that:
> 
> 1) Powerful men such as Genghis Khan, Alexander the
> Great, and Julius 
> Caesar never knew the luxury of getting onto an
> airplane and flying across 
> the face of the Earth.  I, at least, have done
> better than them by that much.
> 
> 2) Great inventors like Alexander Graham Bell and
> Thomas Alva Edison had to 
> build their conveniences from scratch.  I can drive
> over to Wal-Mart and 
> buy telephones and light bulbs, when I'm not
> watching DvDs on my computer.
> 
> 3) People in the middle ages had to sit in hot,
> stuffy churches on Sunday 
> and listen to sermons delivered in a language they
> couldn't understand.  I 
> can sit on my couch, turn on the television, and
> watch preachers and news 
> commentators deliver incomprehensible lectures in
> modern English.
> 
> 4) Nobody remembers the name of the "Beowulf" poet,
> although his poem 
> resonates through the centuries.  My name is
> indelibly etched in the 
> storage systems of thousands of computers around the
> world.
> 
> 5) The ancient Romans sat on hard stone seats in
> open amphitheaters to 
> watch gladiatorial combat, and most of them never
> really got a good 
> view.   I get to see instant replay on Battle Bots.
> 
> 6) Before there were cities, our ancestors used to
> walk across the 
> landscape without a care in the world, munching on
> nuts, fruits, and 
> whatever animals they could catch.  We get to drive
> across our countries 
> while consuming junk food and soft drinks in air
> conditioned vehicles they 
> would have thought belonged to the gods.
> 
> All in all, despite the terrible things which have
> befallen our 
> civilization in the past few months, it was not the
> worst year in which to 
> live.
> 
> Here's hoping the next one is even better.
> 
> -- 
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