RE: swinging

Brock,

You mentioned your thought of the pendulumn swinging a while back to me.
It has stuck in my mind and eases any anxiety about where the list is
headed. 
Part of a healthy relationship as I see it. As long as we all keep
communicating.

Joe Mills

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>From: 	brocfarm@pacific.net[SMTP:brocfarm@pacific.net]
>Sent: 	Thursday, February 26, 1998 2:35 PM
>To: 	pumpkins@mallorn.com
>Subject: 	swinging
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>Joe and Beth'
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>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
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>>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.
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>>Joe Mills, SPGA
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