On Oct 25, 2005, at 14:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is absolutely essential to parade our few young lacemakers before
the
public and media.
Your use of the word "parade", is fascinating, especially when coupled
with "few"...
So, we suck them in, and expose them - on false pretenses - and then
what??? They'll still have to face reality the moment they come to
their first lace meeting and meet others - most of whom are likely to
be in their mothers' and grandmothers' age group. Weronika - just 22 -
is still hanging on, but she's more mature than any 22yr old I've ever
met in US (and that includes my own son). An average softie is likely
to run - screaming - away from such a meeting... Sure, it would be nice
to show well-muscled youngsters of both sexes (but not _children_ who
have as much "sex appeal" as dowagers), busy at their shuttles,
needles, pillows... But it would be a _fake_ picture of what's
happening...
Not to bring politics into the equation again, but we've all had too
much - expensive - "action" based on short-term lies recently, and we
don't need another instance of it...
Jeri, I admire your knowledge and your generosity in sharing it. But,
once in a while, your ideas (and ideals) are no more practical than
those of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin... :)
--
Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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