Difference of opinion

[Rich Littleton]

Rod is a godddam jewel!!!!!  

VERY well said, Rod.  Humane-ness like yours makes all of us be a little
better.

Rich

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On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Rod Clark wrote:

> > I am going off the lists for awhile and will only perform a
> > couple tasks in the near future. ...
> 
> Barb, 
> 
>    When you want to approach some things again that you care
> about and want to do, you're always welcome. You've done enough
> for people and causes that you have years worth of goodwill
> piled up around here in people's hearts.
> 
>    It's a shame that all of this went back and forth so much on
> e-mail and not in person - that's not nearly so good at helping
> the temporarily humor-impaired among us get back into personal
> connection and empathy with people, with one another. I should
> know, because I've sent you so much e-mail and not enough of
> anything else. This is what happens when we depend so much on
> e-mail, and not enough on being affected by people's faces as we
> talk with them, or their voices as we talk with them.
> 
>    I hope you want to participate again, in some better day and
> time. It's ridiculous to be writing this instead of talking to
> you. Almost as bad as the rest of it, I guess.
> 
>    Getting people who are used to wielding "get with the team"
> authority in other organizations to adopt a funkier democratic
> method here of reaching agreement, one that always takes more
> time and effort and is inherently frustrating, isn't easy. We
> all have hopes for this. It's never going to work smoothly as
> long as random people (you, me, Mel, lots of others, some who
> could be described as fringe elements) can get involved and
> bring along their various ideals and start trying to convince
> everyone else of them. It's mostly still run by a bunch of
> people who aren't professionals at it, which is both what's good
> and bad about it.
> 
>    In my view, everyone who's interested at all in
> participating, or even casual observers, are as "entitled" to
> know what's going on as the people who are doing things. But
> taking the (lots of) time to write those things up and to go
> through all of the ideal time-consuming communications processes
> that we should have is often more onerous than actually doing
> the work. 
> 
>    I think SCN would be the better for your involvement, and for
> your nudging us toward keeping a focus on your ideals and going
> through the extra workload to turn them into practice more often
> and more consistently. 
> 
> Rod
> 
> 

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