swinging

Joe and Beth'

I am like you, I like mail, I like an active list.......but i also realize
i am not the only one on the list......I think at the moment we are
swinging to one extreme to another...and that soon we will reach a
comforable in Between....for all...........brock






>I am embarrassed and proud. Proud, that my good friend Beth Rado told it
>like it is when it comes to the dampening effect that has rolled over
>the pumpkin-list lately, like some sort of plague. Embarrassed, that I
>didn't get on that band wagon myself a little sooner. Creating the SPGA
>was a direct result of the freedom to speak freely on the list. I think
>that your are going to see that it was an important development in the
>expansion of our sport. It would not have happened if unspoken
>restrictions were in place. Maybe they were there but that my own
>naiveté let me move unrestricted long enough to bring the southern
>grower together before I became too self conscious to speak. I suppose I
>felt I was a representative for the SPGA now and had to speak
>differently. Interestingly enough the newsletter/magazine for the SPGA
>is all about that side of pumpkin growing which is now being drained
>from the list. The humorous side, the human side, Heavy Hitters and 4 H
>Clubs, big pumpkins as well as the little ones when it doesn't work out
>just right. I guess having numerous e-mails coming to me personally
>satisfied my need to communicate in the ways that some on the list feel
>were not appropriate to serious growing. All I kept on thinking was just
>how unique and marvelous that period on the list was for me. I don't
>know of another form of communication like it. One-on-one conversations
>are not at all the same. I am probably one of those responsible for the
>uprise of the word police and could easily understand someone asking me
>to restrain myself a bit but for some reason the atmosphere on the list
>now is such that I use it only for technical information. That just
>misses the boat completely when it comes to what growing these giants is
>all about according to my book. I am not one to easily know the middle
>ground of anything. How to find it here is a mystery as well. I think
>speaking up is a good start and I thank Beth Rado for showing the way.
>Thanks Beth.
>
>
>Joe Mills, SPGA
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