Doug,
I think that was very well spoken. Thank you for provoking thought.
Tyanna
From: Dr. Doug Miller
Sent: 1/6/2003 6:16:55 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [VFB] Fishing for a living
Deb,
You touched the Huemmingway nerve which resides deep within me.
A few years ago, my son and I fished off the coast of
Maine and saw firsthand the lobster folks plying their trade. I mentioned
to the guide that I would like to one day spend a couple of months working a
lobster boat. He said two things: hurry because all too soon there
will not be many left; be prepared to earn $5/hour and all the lobster I can
eat.
We don't have to look very far to find the hard-livin'
folks. Lobsterfolks are a romantic breed because they are unfamiliar to
me; share croppers may be romantic to you for the same reason. Until we
"experience" poverty and hunger it will always retain a "romantic" (in the
classical sense) quality that in reality is not there.
I grew up in a Texas oilfield filled with
"roughnecks" and "wildcatters." Right out of a movie like Giant. To
the unfamiliar, it seems epic and romantic. To my 8 and 9 fingered
classmates, to my childhood friends who never finished school because the family
needed to pay off crop loans - it is an entirely different story.
And to Gib Combs - who hunted and fished without any
regard to licenses and seasons and limits and then distributed that food to
those who needed it. . .rest well, my firend! May you feat at a heavenly
banquet table.
Just a thought. . .
Doug
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