[Tango-L] Weight of words

2008-04-27 Thread Keith Elshaw
No one has said anything, but it might seem (at least I could understand if it it was thought) that I was pretty strident in my post earlier today. Since I pushed "send" on that one, I have been thinking it would have been good if I had at least provided a tiny bit of background at least in parent

[Tango-L] Weight of words

2008-04-28 Thread Michael Figart II
Keith Elshaw wrote;

Re: [Tango-L] Weight of words

2008-04-28 Thread buffmilonguera
- From: Michael Figart II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: tango-l@mit.edu Sent: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 7:40 pm Subject: [Tango-L] Weight of words Keith Elshaw wrote; <<<<<http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l ___ Tango-L mailing list Tango-L@mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l

Re: [Tango-L] Weight of words

2008-04-28 Thread Floyd Baker
Keith... Last week my reponse went only to you. A failing I have, not sending to 'all'. This one I will be careful to do right. You said a lot of things privately about 'the great unwashed'.. Being 'protective' of them and all. How did come to be their guardian? To keep them from hearing

Re: [Tango-L] Weight of words

2008-04-28 Thread Trini y Sean (PATangoS)
--- Floyd Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I spent nearly ten years in a Tango wasteland studying what was behind it all... Without (for the most part) being able to dance it myself. But that did not stop the understand of it. I concentrated on the origins and concepts. How and why it came abou

Re: [Tango-L] Weight of words

2008-04-29 Thread Floyd Baker
Here's my version of the above...: There are Milongas once a month now, for the past few months.., in the same place I used to hold them every week. They now draw 30 monthly, where we were getting 40 and 50 weekly, until the 'politics' started. Someone simply turned the electric back on to t

Re: [Tango-L] Weight of words

2008-04-29 Thread Trini y Sean (PATangoS)
Floyd, Trini, here. I understand where you're coming from. We've swallowed a lot of losses ourselves when we first started our group. And I don't think anyone will truly know how much work an organizer does, except another organizer. You should be quite proud of the fact that you've created en