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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Brooks, Mark</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:mark.brooks@twc.state.tx.us">mark.brooks@twc.state.tx.us</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Holidays" 2009.06.19 (01) [EN]<br><br></span><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Speaking
of father figures, Ron holds that distinction here on Lowlands-L in my opinion.
Recently, I went to the Linguistlist site to see whether I could find lists
similar to Lowlands about other languages, and I couldn’t. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Sure,
Linguistlist has other lists regarding other languages, but nothing like what
Ron has done here with Lowlands. They hardly had any activity, and what
activity they had mostly touched on seminars and workshops. I’d like to thank
him for providing such a wonderful forum for us here. If it weren’t for this
list, I know that I couldn’t have learned to read as much Dutch as I can. It
even spurred me to try my hand at reading the Northern Germanic languages. So,
a big thanks, Ron.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Mark
Brooks</span></p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: Holidays<br><br>Thanks, Mark. That was really sweet of you.<br><br>But you probably know that much of it is due to many supportive participants, including you. I just constantly attempt to keep things alive, fresh, encouraging, welcoming (non-intimidating) and comfortable. Some levity here and there helps. Of course I owe a debt of gratitude to another father figure: our patron saint and spiritual guide, the Great Kahuna (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/treasures/kahuna.htm">http://lowlands-l.net/treasures/kahuna.htm</a>).</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Folks, it might be interesting to find out how Summer Solstice and Winter Solstice are celebrated in your native cultures. As is usual, Summer Solstice has been overlaid by a Christian holiday, in this case St. John's Day (after John the Baptist). But customs associated with it usually represent pre-Christian customs and beliefs. I understand that there is particularly much variety in this in Britain. For instance, bonfires (< bone fires) are commonly lit during both solstices. This custom seems to be very, very old. Variants are found throughout Eurasia.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron (List Daddy)</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Seattle, USA</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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