Hello Peter, Yes, I too am inclined to do what I can to forward those who show an earnest desire to move forward in my physical location. Fortunately, my world view has the benefit of other juxtaposition-ing. Flying with eagles and crawling with lizards with all the in-betweens allows more flexibility. One family first-cousin was Secretary of the Navy and I sometimes "hang out" with undocumented workers. Thank you for the quote. I saved it in my files. Learning to look at the boat's movement/ progress and perils in the journey can be a life's adventure.
In the late 1960's while living in Mexico, I visited with a shop owner and commented on how it could be possible to elevate her employee who was hand-scrubbing laundry. Her comment was that until this person learned to do the first chores, she was not eligible to move to the next level of competence. Noteworthy comments include that the owner brought most all of her employees up level-by-level until they gained additional skills and she also paid them accordingly. And as an employer of several dozen village people, she had a wage scale that related to ability and productivity. Many of the women made substantial wages (more than their husbands) and achieved a comfortable standard of living (greater than I allowed myself to enjoy even when I had the resources.) By the way, I just completed my most recent manuscript, Angela Lucina, a story/ biography of a friend who was born as an illegitimate child in a stick-and-mud hut in a wilderness in central Mexico. Today, she is an upper-middle-class, US citizen who donates time to assisting wayward girls. Hopefully my planned meeting with a local publisher is fruitful. It's an in-depth social study of a contemporary Pygmalion transformation. In this earthly travel, we can only do the best we can do with our available resources, talents, and creative application. Hopefully by showing how ONE person changed reality, I can stimulate understanding of exponential change. Assuming that equality dictates equal access to goods and services is naive. What IS equal is our access to an innate resource for creativity only limited by our beliefs. The story demonstrates possibilities and potential. Really it's a social comment on Mexico/ US relations as are my other novels. Well, I don't know why I felt compelled to say this except that it relates to a few recent bantering remarks with another list member and that I feel good about accomplishing another goal. As usual, I build in earth stewardship comments, yet this narrative is not so focused on saving the world, but more about attitude in elevating consciousness and happiness. Thanks for the email note. Best wishes, Peggy Hi Peggy ; I couldn't agree with you more. "People busy pulling on the oars are too busy to rock the boat!" I also don't forget that they don't have many options either. In some ways this is not always a bad thing. Best Regards, Peter G. Thailand _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
