Saturday, October 20, 2007

[papercreters] Papercrete in the UK. -was- Re: The more you share, the more you learn.

you have already succeeded Got to Love the Passion -Clyde Curry--
www.evesgarden.org-- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "Mary Lloyd"
<mary@...> wrote:
>
> Hey slurryguy, now I REALLY feel at home with what you say here. I
> have a number of unfinished projects myself I confess, but they were
> a lot of fun while my energy was up. I sort of think that nothing is
> really wasted even with ideas, so even if I have had to abandon
> something it is only because I learned a better way in the process
> and started again.
> I am beginning to refer to other people as "normal people" because
> my ideas and lifestyle are definitely not normal. But who wants
> normal anyway? Normal is what people do when they can't be bothered
> to consider how much negative impact they are having on others'
> lives and environments, instead of planning the positive impact they
> COULD have. This is how come I got interested in papercrete in the
> first place, and cob.
> Of course, I could just fail with my homeless project. There are a
> lot of things I seem to be fighting and it is all uphill. But at
> least I can say I tried!
> Love, Whinnie
>
> --- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "slurryguy" <slurryguy@>
> wrote:
> >
> > I've learned from experience that ideas are cheap and easy to
> find.
> > I'd rather have one person with the energy, enthusiasm, and
> endurance
> > to get something done than have 100 people with greatest of
> ideas.
> > IMHO one of the best measures of wisdom is being able to choose
> which
> > ideas to invest the effort into COMPLETING. Half finished ideas
> are
> > an absolute waste of time and energy. Sadly I've had my share of
> > those. The half finished ones usually result from making a poor
> > choice on which idea to work on. Is this the origin of the
> > expression "half wit?" <sigh>
> >
> > Happily, I've managed to finish my share of projects too, thank
> > goodness. I'd go insane if I didn't finish something once in a
> > while. Of course there is always the possibility that I'm already
> > insane...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "Mary Lloyd" <mary@> wrote:
> > >
> > ><snip>
> > >
> > > It is terrible having the ideas sometimes without the
> means
> > to
> > > achieve them.
> > >
> > ><snip>
> >
>



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