02-12-2009, 04:45 AM
David Guyatt Wrote:Children's stick-figure sketches in response very welcome. Anything more complicated gets lost in translation.
I'm with you, David.
When the experts with advanced degrees in the field can't agree and are riding into the battle within massed armies under differing fluttering war banners, I take a picnic lunch and sit up on the hill, much like the folks from Washington assembled for the first battle of Bull Run. The back and forth movement, the cannonade, the whiskered wizards ... it's all entertaining, and grim. There will be bodies on the field afterwards, and the war may drag on for a long time, and there will be history books one can read. It's amusing and entertaining and dreadfully important, so I can only wait at the telegraph station for dispatches from the other fronts.
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"