Yes, well my point was that Chomsky is one of a kind, a hero, but someone whom
it's difficult to emulate.
Miriam
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<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2018 8:01 PM
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Happy 90TH birthday!
Maybe the State of Insanity. Cathy and I have reduced our territory to two
counties beginning this past July 1. And the ILOB program reduced our budget
by 20%...actually it came out to be 25%. This means we serve about 25 clients
during the service year, July 1 to June 30.
But as to beginning a new job in another state? Not going to happen.
I do not have the endurance I would need to do a full time job. I have slowed
way down in the time it takes me to prepare for a presentation. Stuff I used
to toss out from the top of my head, now takes hours to research. Today, as an
example, I began writing our annual Christmas letter. This is a two page
letter that updates our close friends and distant family members. It took me
from 8:10 this morning, until 3:00 this afternoon. A task I used to do in
about an hour and a half, including the time it took to comb back through my
calendar and pull out the events I want to highlight.
It's funny, I used to make fun of annual Christmas letters. Part of it was the
fact that most of such letters came from family members wanting to either lead
me to Christ, or to brag about what good Christians they were.
But when we moved into our new home in 1995, I began doing a quick review of
the year's events. Now when I go back and read them, I am reminded of just how
much we can forget or get confused about. We've talked about making a folder
with the entire collection. This we would present to each of our three
children, and as many of our grand children as were interested.
Sort of a family chronicle. I include no politics or religious stuff, keeping
strictly to bits and pieces of life...and death...among the Clan.
Carl Jarvis
On 12/7/18, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Not only is he still working, but he got a new job recently, at a
university somewhere in the Southwest. Now, do you think you could get
a new job in a different state too?
Miriam
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Sent: Friday, December 07, 2018 10:44 AM
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Happy 90TH birthday!
One of my mentors. Noam Chomsky is 90 years old today. If I were a
kid again I'd say, Noam Chomsky, my Hero!
Other than agreeing with much of his political and philosophical
views, about the only other similarity is that we are both still working.
Carl Jarvis