[at-l] Reentry, Continuing

[daveh at psknet.com (Dave Hicks)]

Take a deep breath and remember who you are.  You never struck me as one who
was defined by others, or things.

There is an old saw, "Use things and love people, not the other way around."

I'd suggest you paraphrase/expand it to something like, "Own/control/use/etc
things and love people/life/values/etc, not the other way around."

It's when you find that you love "things" that they start to own you, not
the other way around.  OTOH, when you love people/life/values/etc, "things"
don't have a hold on you.  So, what's the problem with owning a millstone,
as long as it doesn't own you?

So, IMHO, the key is not what you have, but what you can walk away from w/o
letting it take control of, or defining, you.

The Philosophical Saw

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jan Leitschuh" <janl2@mindspring.com>
To: "AT-List" <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 10:18 PM
Subject: [at-l] Reentry, Continuing



Hey everybody,

I'm a landowner. I signed the millstone, er, papers, today. I get to
live in the woods.

Exciting, and also scary. Why do I feel weighed down? As Clyde
informed me, "now you get to pay land taxes."

Quick, someone tell me I can still wander.... I need to hear it. I'm
getting short of breath... aaaack!
Is this what they call buyer's remorse?

     Landed Shoe
(hopefully not Grounded Shoe)

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