MRB, My mom wanted to name me "Michael" but my ultra orthodox grandpa - her dad the OB doctor, thought it was sacriligious because in his book, that's another name for Jesus.
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Michael R. Brown <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, John Carl - > > I'm very glad my thoughts on the closing lines of ZAMM spoke so to you. I > always seek to address both mind and heart, with varying focuses. Thank you > for the personal revelation - whatever happened with the girl? > > Funny you should ask. We became good friends for a time, but since I wanted so much more, I think I drove her away with my letters. I wish I'd kept copies of those letters. It became a challenge to me - to see whether I could woo a woman simply with words, words and more words and I spent about a year writing once or twice a week and never got any response. Then I went on a trip with some other friends, to the Grand Canyon, and became interested in a different girl and I wrote once more to Teresa to tell her when I'd gotten engaged. She finally wrote back. I was glad to know that my letters had moved her deeply and she felt sort of disappointed in their cessation. Silly girl. She should have written back once or twice. I guess she was seeing how long I'd be able to keep it up. Last time I saw her was at my wedding. She told me she was marrying a Danish farmer whom she'd met at a youth hostel somewhere, and moving to Denmark. I've often wondered what happened to her and then just a month ago, another mutual friend of both of us, Dana, who now teaches high school physics in Sacramento and is married to Chris, who was my partner in my Burning Man adventures, of whom I've written before in this forum - that Dana, said she bumped into Teresa jogging and she lives close be. Maybe when I get back to California this winter, I'll drop by and get to see her again and what happened to her all these years. > I had a dream about Bob last night. > > Background: we've bought 13 acres of Northern Calif agricultural land and > are planning to start an off-grid estate there soon. So take that into > account. > > Sounds nice. NorCal is my home. Which part? > In the dream, an informant from this list told me that Bob was still > kickin' and had survived a bout of oral cancer a few years ago. He too had > gone off-grid, and post-cancer was "surviving on marijuana and propane." > (The latter, of course, for his off-grid house.) I asked, "Does he still > read the MOQ list?" > > And there the dream ended. > > > Sounds like a real dream. Real dreams have a way of never ending. For instance, I took my wife of 23 years (Ha! Take THAT Teresa Davis!) to a movie the other night and at the end of it, the hero of the story, an Ape named Ceaser, mounts to the top of a redwood and contemplates the city across the Bay from a high vantage point which encapsulates all of it, and maybe I'm just projecting a little bit, but that view brought back my own dreamy memories of hoping to conquer the world. Thanks for reading, as Dan says, John Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
