P3D Friends are honest with each other and their only motive is toadvance you.

[Rehotshots@xxxxxxx]

Dear Friends,

I know that I said goodbye, but I am still very concerned about you all and
your success in your communications and your success in making your visions 
materialize.  For some of you that is clarity in your thinking.  For some of 
you that is getting information and stimulation that will make your minds 
take that next leap into realization. 

Would a library compete with a bookstore?  How much good would it do for a 
small bookstore to link to a larger site that is competing with them?  Unless 
they wished a merger to occur? 

The cream will always rise to the top from the constant churning and turning 
of the mind.  The cream is the ultimate output, the hope and desire of all of 
us.  We must short circuit in friendship,  until we cannot handle anymore 
business, or feedback, or whatever it is we wish to exchange.  You see, your 
friends have friends as well and those friends have friends.  Sound like a 
pyramid to you?  It is, in a sense.  And look at how long the pyramids have 
lasted.  We must have a broad base of friends
and it is our friends who will promote us, and if they do not, we will no  
longer be friends.  Ask yourself if this is not true. 

In the final outcome, we do not care if this or that airline says they are 
our friend.  We want to see that they are making the changes that we asked 
for.  We want better planes, newer planes, safer planes.  So, they can flash 
all the friendship banners at us that they want to , but I ask this:  How 
have you improved the industry?  Some of your writings are lifeless my 
friends, too horizontal.

Abrahams.  I loved your photos of shells, but I did not like your style of 
writing--too rambling,  too much me.   And I have no other motive for telling 
you that, than that I love you.  I love the similarities, but I agree now 
with a critic who once "attacked" me.  " Long live the differences," for it 
is the contrast that creates the picture; the degrees of contrast, I might 
add..

Art is the act of making sense of nonsense and nonsense of sense.  Well,
we saw how creative Raz was.  He took an idea and turned it around and
used it against me and all of you, it seemed, came to my defense, or perhaps 
to your own defense, which is the same thing to me.    I am a poet.
an inventor, a humanitarian.  Yes, I wish to be all of your friends, but I do
not wish to compete with you.  I will never sell stereo equipment or 
stereo cameras or invent programs.  I will hopefully trade with some of you. 

If IBM loves its people, then it should give them a royalty on all that they 
invent, not just a hundred thousand dollars, if that is still  what they 
give.  Someone told me that 20 years ago.  So, I do not know what IBM is 
doing today, to be honest., but as long as the industry responds to the 
people's needs and not just to the psychology of advertising, then we will 
keep buying.  We love our giants when they respond to us and we love our 
friends when they respond to us and we learn to love our enemies when we see 
the widom in their words.  


As a rambling muse, you have impressed me with your spirit, 
vision, insight, and warmth -- the muse part; but the rambling 
part turns me off, and my feelings are probably not unique.


This is a quote from John Goodman, whom I love and appreciate very much, now 
that I understand what he is saying.   

If you wish to link to someone, link to someone outside your stereo circle.  
And  approach them as friend and see how they can link to you.  Link to 
people who have helped you, not hurt you, unless you have found value in what 
they have said, and then tell them so.  It is difficult to be honest with 
friends, but we must!  We must if we love them.  Thank you John Goodman and I 
will never forget you and if there is ever anything that I can do for you, 
please, let me know.  You will always have my ear.  

Always.  I go on post because that is the fastest way that I can reach you 
all.  If I have rambled, forgive me.  I have used as few words as I know how 
to use at this point in my development.  Or, demonstrate for me by rewording 
this message, adding or subtracting or abbreviating, how I might have made it 
better.  And I appreciate other points of view.

Love you all, 
Teri   

Friends advance each other and absorb each  other and reflect each other 
and are honest with each other.  Sometimes it hurts , but when the pain
subsides, understanding arrives.  I only rail at those whom I perceive to
rant to hurt, to become king of the mountain, by destroying you and then
absorbing you.  I go on post because of my limited time, and perhaps because 
some of you are so large that you frighten me, with your magnificense and 
obvious material wealth.  In fact, I have generally only
approached those who have approached me.