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Well, for my part: I am happy to see you back. Best regards, Bernhard „Rendelius”
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Message----- Hello Everyone, Well.....I guess I am back. I have to be honest, it is hard for me to get
upset....and even harder for me to remain upset. Strange thing happened
yesterday. I went out to eat with my mother and father. While this may not
sound to strange, you should understand neither has spoken in 15 years and
neither seemed to have any desire. They are now retirement age and my dad
returned home last year, after doing aircraft contract work the last 10 years.
My mother returned from the Philippines last year as well. Their dislike for
each other had me organizing two Thanksgiving dinners and two Christmas
dinners. Yet, yesterday they sat across the table beside each other, neither
fighting for the empty seat besides me. Sometimes it takes a few days for
someone to calm down, sometimes it takes 15 years I guess. I get a mass of meteorite e-mails from
"newbies" and I try to answer them the best I can. From time to
time I get referenced from someone I consider well-know ledged and from at
other times I get contacted by various organizations. Google seems to
like my website and I sure that helps attract these e-mails as well. There are
many list members that know a lot more then me, several have nicer collections
then me and as a hunter, I have to be somewhere in the bottom tier. It is hard
for me to consider myself an "expert" in a field I feel mostly
overshadowed by my peers. So I am humbled by the responses I have gotten via
e-mail from list members about our latest "tiff". I am humbled
my thoughts have any emotional effects on others. So, I am back, and I will try not to let
"repeat" this last week. Not so much in self-censorship but more so
in sending e-mails to the list. I understand now greater Mike Farmer's list
"fights". He is emotionally attached to meteorites, and his e-mails
come from this emotion Perhaps I am more emotionally attached to these rocks
then I realized. And while I never considered myself that great of a
contributor to the list, it is quite clear from your e-mails (and phone calls)
that many of you do. I ask that you forgive me for not keeping my
typically cool head, and perhaps for making a small situation worse. I will try
not to feed the ducks from now on, or let others make me a duck. Mark Bostick www.meteoritearticles.com www.kansasmeteoritesociety.com www.imca.cc |
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