Re: [Paddlewise] the challenge(thinking out loud)

Dave Kruger wrote:
> 
> James Lofton wrote:
> >
> > A while back Dave Kruger wrote and mentioned an old photo, [SNIP]
> SNIP<
> Your writing is very eloquent!
> 

Not sure about that, but thank you Dave, Deb, and all the others that 
wrote privately and on list. A big thanks that we have a list like this 
to share thoughts. I will shop for one of those books that help you 
spell(can't spell that either):-)


> The pictures *are* critical.  The one I mentioned was of La Jolla in 1918, and
> I am very wistful for the California I enjoyed as a boy in the early '50's.
> 
> However, I think it is neurotic of me to "wish" La Jolla had not changed.

I don't thank so! I often wonder why we have to change everything.? 
People move to the desert and want to pipe in water and grow things. 
People move to the woods and the first thing they want to do is cut trees 
down. They move to the swamps and drag out the dredges.
When I first homesteaded in AK, I thought it was PERFECT, and all I 
wanted was a cabin and to just raise my family and live with the land. 
Can you emagine my shock when a fellow homesteader approched me and 
wanted to know if I would be interested in joining a comunity growth 
league.! They wanted to get a bureau organized and get fed/state money. 
See about getting some kind of develoment started, etc, etc........

No Dave, I don't think that makes you neurotic. I think that people that 
move to a pristeen area with the thought of change are tho!


  I
> have to let go of what happened to a huge chunk of Southern California (and I
> think I have, for the most part).  Rather, I need to take your advice and use
> what happened there as an object lesson to help people from perpetuating the
> same thing in areas which demand preservation.  With an ever-burgeoning
> population, we can not expect to preserve much, but we should make *conscious*
> choices and not *unconscious* ones.
> 

Good words. Sometime we can't stop change or the march of "progress"(what 
a word), but we can sure slow or stop it long enough for certain changes 
to be done, that can at least minamize the destruction. Look at the 
pipeline up in Alaska. Sure it went through, but a large number of 
changes was forced to take place before it was. As destructive as it 
was(I watched it go practally by my door, and have flown it's full length 
several times), pressure by groups and well careing people, atleast 
limited it."and no I didn't work for them, and refused every penny of 
blood money they wanted to pay"

There is hope.




> The pictures are powerful convincers.
>

 
> Thanks again for your wonderful contribution.
>

..and thanks for neurotic people like you, that sees the change and don't 
necessarly like it all, and most importantly, set about shouting about 
it.

James
 
> --
> Dave Kruger
> Astoria, OR


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