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========================================================================<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 24 March 2008 - Volume 08<br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Please set the encoding mode to Unicode (UTF-8).<br>
If viewing this in a web browser, please click on<br>the html toggle at the bottom of the archived page.<br>=========================================================================<br><br>From: <span class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Luc Hellinckx</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a>></span></span><br>
Subject: <span class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Resources"<br><br></span>
Beste Mike,<br>
<br>
You wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Yes,
after my first experience living overseas (in South Asia), I was</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">spoiled for
life ... that is, I could no longer be satisfied with the</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">easy life in
the States. Everytime I stayed longer than a couple years</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">(only twice in
fact), I was just too frustrated. I always described it</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">as frustration
that "I had grown and they hadn't" (... or put less</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">judgmentally
"I've changed and they haven't", since "growth" has an</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">inherent
positive denotation), but suspect it was then as it is now</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">just
wanderlust!</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
</blockquote>
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In Dutch, we have a verb that describes liberal, prolific growth,
"woekeren", which has negative connotations. Often used in the
following situations:<br>
<ul><li>growth of cancer cells</li><li>putting money out to usury</li><li>weeds growing apace</li></ul>
By the way, anything that grows physically, takes up space that
something/somebody else can't occupy anymore. Maybe this is not too bad
if the amount of available space is unlimited and the quality of all
space is equal. Which brings me to the subject of "borders" somehow:
There's just as many numbers between -1 and +1 as there are real
numbers. <br>
<br>
Sooo...where's that land of the free? <span><span>
:-D </span></span><br>
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Kind greetings,<br><font color="#888888">
<br>
Luc Hellinckx<br><br></font><br><br>
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