Re: [at-l] Sawnie's challenge

["W F Thorneloe, MD" <thornel@ibm.net>]

And WF let you put such drivel on his list? ;-)

It seems as if many carry a great deal into the woods, even when attempting 
to go ultra-light. I only hope that if you pack it in, you will pack it 
out. Of course, there are a few things that we could well afford to lose.

OrangeBug
Atlanta, GA

At 07:41 PM 5/1/1999 -0500, Pat Villeneuve wrote:
>... What if we allowed ourselved to
>think only of the things we admire and enjoy in each other? For
>instance, I have many admirable qualities, but being a fast hiker is not
>one of them. Couldn't we just enjoy the good instead of equating my slow
>pace to something of low account? Why do we leave the structure of our
>adult social world where cattiness is not "politically correct" and
>revert to junior-high-school-level competitiveness among our "sisters"?
>It isn't that one thinks about this sort of thing as one hikes all day,
>each day, day after day....

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