grassrootphilosopher
Mar-28-2009, 5:24pm
Bill Graham,
I have taken notice of your work as a journalist from the day that you have been introduced to this site by Scott Tichenor as well as I have taken notice of your pastime, your passion, well, your mandolin-connection.
You are one of us guys, who are trying to make a dollar, that try to get their families fed, that to many leads sort of an average life.
But thereŽs a mutual bond among us, a bond that reaches out, a bond that is as strong as the economical adversities that we all hope to wither, and that is the peace and the colorful feeling we have when we do what we like, to play music, to play the mandolin.
Rest asured that not only you are regarded in high esteem by the way you have so far enlightened us with your bi-weekly columns, but also as a guy that is - in the widest sense of the word - like us, a fellow in the mandolin community.
I feel for you and your situation. Let me not just utter a warm word of sympathy, that would be inappropriate. I have been where you are and I therefore know the harshness of change that has occured to you. I would like to adress your ability, the ability to electrify people with your work (in writing). In the internet world your writing is not only read where you live but many, sometimes thousands of miles away. If you can warm peoples hearts with your work in that manner, I hope that youŽll be able to make people see that their newspaper, their company, their bussines concern lacks without your engagement.
There is a proverb in Germany that may be translated to English as: "Bad folks donŽt know tunes." I am pretty much aware that the ability to work and the ability to bring across a content in an artistic e.g. musical fashion are related, that when you are able to do one you are able to do the other.
Therefore not only you but all of us that are affected by economical downturns may feel blessed to have an advantage before others, our music that induces hope, that is a steady source of inspiration, a valve, an outlet for our emotions and a standby in our hard times.
I wish you luck, Bill. I wish all of you luck that are troubled by the recent times. Though I hope that our music enables us to overcome these trying times better than the poor souls that have to live without it.
I have taken notice of your work as a journalist from the day that you have been introduced to this site by Scott Tichenor as well as I have taken notice of your pastime, your passion, well, your mandolin-connection.
You are one of us guys, who are trying to make a dollar, that try to get their families fed, that to many leads sort of an average life.
But thereŽs a mutual bond among us, a bond that reaches out, a bond that is as strong as the economical adversities that we all hope to wither, and that is the peace and the colorful feeling we have when we do what we like, to play music, to play the mandolin.
Rest asured that not only you are regarded in high esteem by the way you have so far enlightened us with your bi-weekly columns, but also as a guy that is - in the widest sense of the word - like us, a fellow in the mandolin community.
I feel for you and your situation. Let me not just utter a warm word of sympathy, that would be inappropriate. I have been where you are and I therefore know the harshness of change that has occured to you. I would like to adress your ability, the ability to electrify people with your work (in writing). In the internet world your writing is not only read where you live but many, sometimes thousands of miles away. If you can warm peoples hearts with your work in that manner, I hope that youŽll be able to make people see that their newspaper, their company, their bussines concern lacks without your engagement.
There is a proverb in Germany that may be translated to English as: "Bad folks donŽt know tunes." I am pretty much aware that the ability to work and the ability to bring across a content in an artistic e.g. musical fashion are related, that when you are able to do one you are able to do the other.
Therefore not only you but all of us that are affected by economical downturns may feel blessed to have an advantage before others, our music that induces hope, that is a steady source of inspiration, a valve, an outlet for our emotions and a standby in our hard times.
I wish you luck, Bill. I wish all of you luck that are troubled by the recent times. Though I hope that our music enables us to overcome these trying times better than the poor souls that have to live without it.