[at-l] Parenting, Holmes, and measuring life

[kellyswhitman at hotmail.com (Kelly Whitman)]

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Kelly Whitman
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>From: Sloetoe <sloetoe@yahoo.com>
>To: Shelly Hale <shellydhale@earthlink.net>, 
>TrailR@aol.com,stephensadams@hotmail.com
>CC: at-l@mailman.backcountry.net
>Subject: [at-l] Parenting, Holmes, and measuring life
>Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 09:45:30 -0800 (PST)
>
>--- Shelly Hale <shellydhale@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Better to savor the flavor than to choke on unchewed portions.
>  ;-)
>
> >   ----- Original Message -----
> >   From: TrailR@aol.com
> > There are so many people out there with children, that risk
> > their lives as a part of their jobs (for us). Saying they are
>irresponsible is, well, irresponsible. >   hotdog
>
> >   In a message dated 1/20/2004 12:27:39 AM Eastern Standard
> > Time, shellydhale@earthlink.net writes:
> >     My point was that we should not stop living the way that
> > we do just because we have kids.  The park ranger that died
>was tragically taken from his family as a victim of hypothermia.
>  What a terrible loss. But, he lived his life the way he was.  I
>don't think it was irresponsible of him to go hiking because he
>had 5 kids.
> >
>
>### "Irresponsible" to say 'irresponsible'? I'd have to agree.
>All who've commented negatively have nothing close to this man's
>experience. It's as if they didn't even read the article
>provided. How dare any measure Holmes' "responsibility" without
>knowing him?
>
>As well, none of us were *there*. Cold has an insidious flavor
>that could tap *any* of us on the shoulder -- cuz we're ALL dumb
>enough to walk places where cars don't go. So not only do we not
>know *him*, but we (well, some of us) don't know *ourselves*,
>and what we would do when so tested.
>
>This man went out, AS DO ALL OF US, to measure himself -- to
>keep the blade sharp -- to look perhaps deeper than before. We
>ALL do this, when we breach a 15 mile day, or 30 in two, or
>deliberately hike in the rain, or camp alone, or hitchhike, or
>hike for the first time at night, or camp for the first time on
>sneaux, or...... Don't laugh -- there are some on this list
>who've not done these things. When they *do* do them, they
>should be lauded -- lifted up and celebrated -- because they
>have tested themselves. And ANY such test takes the same guts.
>
>His test was harder.
>
>What does he leave his children? I hope a legacy -- an example:
>"Live."
>"Don't take it (this meager little life) for granted."
>"Push."
>"Excel."
>"Set a standard."
>"Blaze a trail for others to follow."
>"Make the most of what you're given."
>"GLORIFY your life and your maker."
>
>(From Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854):
>"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to
>front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not
>learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die,
>discover that I had not lived. ? I did not wish to live what was
>not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise [sic]
>resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live
>deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily
>and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut
>a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner? And
>if it proves to be mean, why then to publicize it as such."
>
>A loss? Yes.
>A waste? That all depends on your values. Mine compel me to
>value life, to know life, and to set an example to my children.
>Your membership on this list suggests the same thing of you.
>
>Sloetoe
>
>
>
>=====
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>    Pro Pondera Et Meliora.
>
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