-=> Quoting Damon A. Getsman to Nancy Backus on 28-Sep-2015 16:45 <=-
 DAG> By: Nancy Backus to Damon A. Getsman on Sat Aug 29 2015 19:28:36
 
 DAG> No way I'm gonna be perfect.  ;)  Seriously, though, I think I'm
 DAG> pretty good at seeing some of the areas where I dont do perfect.  I'm
 DAG> always trying to do a little bit better, so I can at least say I'm
 DAG> improving.  Not that I wouldn't benefit from more feedback on what I'm
 DAG> not necessarily doing right at any one time, of course.  It's always
 DAG> helpful to get those blindspots pointed out.  How else is one better to
 DAG> improve the issues that don't come in to focus with only one's self?

Quite so.  :)  Best we can do is try our best, and try to improve where
we find deficiencies, whether we find them ourselves or have them
pointed out to us....  :)

 NB>> I think that was about reading your mom's manuscript...  :)
 DAG> Oh yeah.  That is on my 'next to read' pile at the very top, still. 

As long as you get to it before she starts asking for feedback.... 

 DAG> The problem that I've found with my current arrangements is that I've
 DAG> only got the 1 room to work with here (the living room, even).  There
 DAG> is a chair to sit at for the computer and a couch which I use as a bed,
 DAG> alternating, with a futon, so that neither I nor my son get too bad of
 DAG> back issues from it.  The chair is an office chair, and not really the
 DAG> best for reading.  So, if I try to go over to the couch and read, I
 DAG> inevitably get drowsy due to my habituation of that point being for
 DAG> sleep primarily.  I even have that with movies now, if I try to watch
 DAG> them over there.  It's horribly inconvenient. 

Sigh...  Probably no room to get a beanbag chair in there, for reading
and movie watching... ;)  

 DAG> I should take advantage of a few of the days that are still decent
 DAG> before it starts the constant winter downpour here and try to get
 DAG> outside to a park to go through it or something, probably.
 
Now that's an idea....  or maybe go to the library...??

 NB>> Not really... just the way I keep things in perspective...  the first
 NB>> bit, though, is a bit tongue in cheek, sorta...  :)
 DAG> Oh I'm sorry.  That was remarkably callous of me.  I must've read
 DAG> that part with a lower-case 'g'.  My apologies if my misunderstanding
 DAG> caused any offense. 

No offense taken... I don't expect everyone to have the same perspective
as mine, but I also don't mind sharing my perspective... :)

 DAG> I'm used to a circle of friends where the closest people to
 DAG> straight-up christianity are people who go to a non-denominational
 DAG> church in order to help the spiritual and moral lessons, but don't
 DAG> really believe in 'God' (capital G). Being former cult kid and a
 DAG> secular Buddhist, I miss and cause offense now and then.

As long as you don't take offense at my being open with my faith, we
should be fine...  :)

 DAG> I certainly don't believe that we're anywhere near to the Earth being
 DAG> stewarded to our full human potential (if we were all one with our
 DAG> Buddha- selves), either.  ;)

Yup... we don't even always do all that we are capable of even in our
not fully realized state.... with or without God...  :)

ttyl         neb

... The abnormal fear of giants is Fee-fie-fo-bia

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