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
