Digital BW, The Print

Paul,

Well stated. We are starting to realize what really matters, I, for one am
very thankful just to be healthy.

"There is a gesture in those roadside offers - the short red school bus, the
$1,100 pickup - that I can't help admiring. At first they look like pure
dismissal, a way of unloading disused pieces of equipment or making a little
extra money on stuff that was just lying around anyway. But they are really
invitations. They show a confidence in the passer-by and in time. Someone
will park on the shoulder and take a slow walk around that feed wagon,
perhaps even crawl underneath it to check the running gear. Maybe not soon.
But when it happens, the doorbell will ring or the dogs will bark. A
stranger will present himself, someone from farther up the road, across the
ridge, down the valley. The price was firm once, back when the wagon was
new, a price anyone could understand. But now the wagon belongs to a
different economy, which is as much a matter of tact and understanding as it
is dollars and cents. It's a matter of knowing what things that have lost or
long outlived their prices are really worth, stranger to stranger, neighbor
to neighbor"

Happy New Year to everyone,

John in OKC

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Roark" <paul.roark@...>
To: "DigitalB&WPrint" <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 2:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Epson Printers bigger than A3 -- ramblings


| Julian wrote:
|
| >People don't want to pay US prices!
| >We don't have the US disposable income ...
|
| Neither do we -- even though our acting like we have more than enough is a
| big part of what drives the U.S. economy, causes the huge trade deficit,
| etc.  Have you ever seen a candle burning in an enclosed bottle?  What
| happens in the end?   ;-)
|<SNIP>
 While on an Indian reservation project, I ran into the local saying, "I
| didn't know what poverty was until I left the reservation."  (This can be
| taken a number of ways.)  The only problem an old Indian Medicine Man had
| was that he could not find a young Indian to take over his practice, and
he
| wanted to retire.
|
| I wonder what the US wealth and lifestyle will look like after the world
| forces us to live within our allotment of CO2 emissions?  (I'm going to
buy
| stock in an SUV re-cycling company.)
|
| Paul
| http://www.PaulRoark.com