[Peter Howie]

Thanks Marcia,

Much appreciated

Peter



Peter Howie B.Sc, TEP
Managing Director
The Moreno Collegium for Human Centred Learning, Research and  
Development
0411 873 851
www.morenocollegium.com.au




On 02/01/2010, at 6:18 PM, MKarp11444 at aol.com wrote:

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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mkarp11444 at aol.com
>> Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 06:24:10
>> To: Peter Howie<peterhowie at macquariehouse.com.au>
>> Subject: Re: A New Years gift
>>
>> Hi Peter, Nice. Am going to read your words to
>> my daughter when she awakes. Thanks. It is not
>> so easy to sing to yourself about your own
>> beauty. My mom never praised me much. Her
>> reasoning was that she didn't want me to "get a
>> swelled head." The result? Didn't much believe
>> compliments from others. On her death bed, at 92
>> years, she said , "I loved you more than anyone
>> or anything in the whole world. Did I ever tell
>> you that? I said,"No Mom, tell me now, and be
>> quick. You're dying." She said, "yes,and you are
>> soooooooo beautiful." Did I ever tell you that?"
>> I said "No mom, never. Anything else?" "Yes,"
>> she said, " you're so lovable. I bet everyone
>> loves you." I said, "Yeah, Ma. Everyone loves
>> me. Just like everyone loved you. And..... We're
>> both liars." We laughed together for the last
>> time. She weakly squeezed my hand  and said,"
>> You're a good one." Once I ran home from school
>> crying and confused. I buried myself in her
>> apron on return. "What's wrong?" She asked me. "
>> Billie said to me I was 'pretty'. I didn't know
>> what to do or what to say." She said to me,
>> "It's simple. You look into his eyes and say,
>> 'Thank you'". I still do it. And when others
>> have the same dilemma and many do, I suggest
>> they do the same. My mom wasn't "educated"
>> beyond 12. She went to college for a year as "an
>> advanced student" and loved it. She took
>> political science, English literature and
>> Russian literature. One day the elders of our
>> synagogue came in a gaggle to my dad's shoe
>> store looking to question my mom." We hear
>> you've enrolled to take Russian literature at
>> college. Why, Yetta? Don't you know what the
>> Russians did/are doing to the Jews? Should we or
>> you support that? Why did you take Russian?" My
>> mom thought about it. We all awaited her answer
>> as she was very wise at these matters. She
>> spoke, " It's very simple, Yankel. I took
>> Russian because everything else was ..full."
>> "Ah," said the critical elders. They smiled,
>> wished her good luck and walked out of the
>> store. The "uneducated"sometimes retain a kind
>> of natural wisdom. My mom used to tell us,"
>> Education is the transmission of humanity... or
>> if it isn't, it should be." My husband, Ken's
>> mum was English working class. She never went to
>> school beyond ten or twelve years old. One day,
>> Ken, a budding artist, came home from school
>> crying. He told his mum that the Head Master
>> tied his left hand behind his back and told Ken
>> she shouldn't use it to write or draw and hence
>> forth to use his right hand. This was nigh to
>> impossible as Ken was  left handed. Ken returned
>> to school after lunch. Furious, his mum went to
>> the school, and waited on the "yellow line" for
>> the children to finish the day and prepared to
>> ask to see the head master. The "yellow line"
>> was where the parents were asked to wait before
>> entering the school. In the Head Master's office
>> her guns were blazing. She began, "Head Master.
>> You know that Ken sketches well and wants to be
>> an artist." "Yes, I do," said the academic king.
>> "Well,"  she continued. "Michelangelo was left
>> handed. If it was good enough for Michelangelo,
>> it's good enough for our Ken." That night, Ken's
>> Dad returned from his shift as a railway engine
>> driver. Granny told him the whole story. "Mum,"
>> her name was Flo but he called her mum in front
>> of the kids. "How on earth did you know
>> Michelangelo was left handed?" "I didn't ," said
>> Granny. "But I was sure HE wouldn't know!" Regards, Marcia Karp
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