CREGIER@UPEI.CA (Sharon Cregier) (01/16/91)
Index Number: 12990 Dear Allen, This will have to be posted on the Handicap List as it seems I am unable to reach you through Bill or thro' Fidonet. Below are some of the Fidonet permutations I tried. TO "Allen Marker" <Allen.Marker@busker.fidonet.org> CC "Allen Marker" <Allen.Marker%busker.fidonet.org@UNBMVS1.csd.unb.ca> CC "Allen Marker" <Allen.Marker@p0.f14.n105.z1.fidonet.org> CC "Allen Marker" <Allen.Marker%p0%f14%n105%z1@fidonet.org> CC "Allen Marker" <Allen.Marker%p0%f14%n105%z1%fidonet%org@uunet.uu.net> SU Getting to know you TX Dear Allen: (21 December 1990) Your 3 messages of 18 December, all addressed to CREGIER@UPEI.CA, reached me intact. I don't recall what address I tried for you on the 30th of November. I'm not sure if you first heard of me thorough my own efforts or through the efforts of Bill McGarry of the Handicap List. I'd tried to make contact earlier with no luck. For this attempt, I have 5 addresses for you, 4 of which were suggested by the wunderkind in the computer centre, and one of which, busker, is winkled out from your "From" in the heading. I rather hope the shorter, colorful "busker" makes it. We knew we were dealing with a good head when we saw the word "busker". I didn't think anybody knew the meaning of that! It's such a reach out and contact feeling when good solid words like that can be shared and used to describe events that modern language, much emasculated and reduced to "you know", cannot hope to. I don't know if you rcvd my message about Linda Cook or Marie Stutts yet. Linda was sevrely disabled but is now back riding horses and teaching the disabled. She works with rehabbing professionally now, I think. I haven't heard from my blue belt dynamo Marie in some weeks now. If this comes bouncing back on The System, I shall have to ask Bill to forward it. If The System does not cooperate, we may have to resort to snail mail. I have a LOT of karate questions for you! And all I know is that you live in Portland, Oregon. I think. At the moment, I am working, together with the president of the Prince Edward Island Karate Association, on a new constitution for the Association. We are trying to strengthen the executive so as to contain some of the "loose cannon". We are also trying to control one black belt in particular who takes a great thrill in injuring people--dislocated shoulders, broken arms, that sort of stuff. But this is difficult to discipline or write into the constitution unless "wilful injury" can be demonstrated. We are also concerned that the human rights commission, by February, will make it near-mandatory for us to accept people with a criminal record! Our President is naive enough to think that karate can help such people. HAH! The day seminaries turn out saints is the day karate can turn such people to the good! Off my soap box. I hope you are not having to deal with physical pain. I hope to have something on the ECHO in the New Year on nutritional approaches to identifying and alleviating pain. As for the pain of trying to fill the vacuum left by "no more karate", well, don't we learn in the dojo that the weaker the person, the more karate serves him because it strengthens his courage? Perhaps I have misconstrued that aphorism. I'm glad you have your music. What type do you enjoy? I like classical guitar, classical music (Mozart esp.--there's a segment of his Eine kleine nachtmusik which wd. do splendid for a very senior kata! I hope someday to see somebody doing one to this section. Or, to, say, Mussgorsky's (sp?) Gates of Kiev), OLD STYLE gospel (Not the stuff with the rock beat--spare me!), and banjo-jaw harp-mountain dulcimer type stuff. Not very much "new age" stuff which never seems to go anywhere--just gasps and wheezes and tinkles on and on. I may be taking some kids to the PEIKA annual meeting, at which time I may have to bear with a little Elvis on the truck stereo, but they will have to listen to old time religion music in return! Ha ha! I am a student of the transport of the horse (you are corresponding with the world's leading authority, here, Allen!), enjoy C.S.Lewis, but not the faked manuscripts by his literary executor, Walter Hooper, and contribute to scientific and lay jls on the problems of horse transport. All the best for the New Year ahead, Allen. I really look forward to hearing from you. I expect, in fact, the whole club (all 30 of us) may want to hear from you, if you want to broadcast to that extent. Kindest regards, Sharon "Horse" Cregier a.k.a. "Gearbox"--but that is another story! Sharon E. Cregier Cregier@UPEI.CA