Dear Listers,
As a co-owner of the list (with David Durling) I have no special place in our conversations. What I have is a kind of responsibility, shared with David, to put our ears (one at a time) on the railway line and listen to see if there is a train coming, or going.
To mix metaphors, many arrows have been released from very taught bows in the last few days. Since I am a poet by trade I must quote:
The Arrow and the Song
I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?
Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I suggest that Design is a grumpy science - those who find the world in need of change are grumpy - making such change your profession then makes you a grumpy bum.
Some grumpy bums are happy because they have found problems to fix that are able to be fixed and some such grumpy bums are even lucky because people want to pay them lots of money to fix the problems that can be fixed.
Other grumpy bums find problems that can be fixed but non-one wants them fixed or worse, no-one even admits that there are such problems.
Some of the members of this list have been grumpy bums for 50 and more years. That is, they are experts at their being grumpy.
How to learn from grumpy bums is one of the abiding issues of this list. Why? Because it was grumpy bums who bothered to set the list up in the first place.
Why did they do this? Because they have found solutions to problems and they wished to share both their solutions and their knowledge that there are solutions.
Are they right or wrong? Now there is a grumpy bum problem!
cheers
keith
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