Re: Here's the problem with that Joe...

Bob --

> Reminds me of my favorite Zen quote -
> "If you're going to stand, stand. If
> you're going to sit, sit. Above all, don't
> wobble!"

Weebles wobble but the don't fall down! I like this quote you've shared. I chuckled tonight as I watched my youngest struggle at times between the sitting - standing - and wobbling. Depending on how involved she was in what she was doing.

> I'll have to check out the Allen book -
> thanks for the resource.

Let me know what you think about it. I had gone through it about two months before my job ended. After doing the "download" as described in the book I discovered I had *far* too many things going and just dropped several of them until the job was over. It was like an instant lifting of stress during an already stressful time. Then took a few weeks slow then picked up that other stuff again. Of course I explained this to the others involved.

> I like paper better too, and continually
> bounce back and forth. I find the PDA allows

I don't use anything electronic to track appointments. But then I don't really have that many. Need to set more with myself but that is another subject!

> right, there's something subconsciously
> pleasing about writing on paper.

Bob the example I always use is this. On my desk I can have many scraps of paper. Some are written in red, some blue, some black, some pencil. Some are printed documents that I've scribbled a note on. A few are documents someone else has handwritten to me and I may have jotted a note on. With all those varied documents I can still distinguish one from the other and find exactly the one I'm after. With computer printed documents they are all the same.

My address book has scratch throughs and updates. I see the old addresses for people and it brings back memories - of when I visited them at the old address and other things. It's a time line of my life.

Think of the love letters some save and revisit year after year. There is a look, a smell, a touch - unique to each. They take the owner back in the same way a high school year book does. What would this experience be if each of those documents was printed from a computer? [As an aside - for those that wonder if the phenomenon of age regression is real consider this paragraph in that light...]

Even a typewritten letter was signed with a certain pen, on a certain stationary, chosen by the sender. A special stamp they liked. All that is lost today.

What is the value of a personally written, carefully worded note today? What will it be in 10 years? 20 years?

These are things I ponder. And thoughts I endeaver to pass to my children.

Thank you for a stimulating conversation. I think I'll run touch this up and run it in my newsletter in December - it seems an appropriate time.

-- Dan Butler


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