To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Homestead] was Powell endorsement--Palin
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:45:34 -0400
Gosh darn, Bob, you smart and handsome guy, I know some single women that
would love to meet you, should you be available...??? <g>
Ray, noticably NOT in Bob's new group
-----Original Message-----
From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:14 am
Subject: Re: [Homestead] was Powell endorsement--Palin
Very well said, Susan. And for a bit of Levity, if someone would like to
lump
me into the "smart and handsome" group, I would be delighted ...bobford
--- On Mon, 10/20/08, SJC <indexer AT localnet.com> wrote:
> From: SJC <indexer AT localnet.com>
> It occurs to me that a lot of people seem think this coming
> election is going to have more impact than I think it will have. Or
> maybe it's something else at work, but at any rate this whole topic
> seems to have people pitting themselves against each other over it. For
> the record, it's hard to hurt my feelings, and I hope others
> don't get theirs hurt, either. We're all, thank heavens, individuals
entitled to our own ideas, free to come and go as we wish from this list, so
hopefully this current tendency to 'categorize' one another into
> them/us piles will wane. Lumping folks into groups usually gets us
> nowhere,
in my experience---simply delineates division lines, which
> isn't usually very useful for learning to get along with each other. Like
minds are easy, comforting, but unlike ideas spark new thinking,
> alternative ways.....there is much value in both, IMHO.