Reading the responses to Ralph's original post I see a lot of mutual misunderstanding and not a whole lot of charitible readings. What Ralph was saying is that there exist a lot of people who are very much isolated from the watersports community, whether for reasons of geography, community, perceived social circle or what have you. Ralph is just talking about reaching out to these people and letting them know that there are no social barriers to joining us. I'm sure a lot of people look out on the crowds of kayakers on the Hudson and feel the way I do looking at a neighborhood pickup basketball game. They're not like me; I don't know if I'd be welcome there. Ralph is just talking about reaching out and saying come on, you're all welcome. -- mike --------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Edelman mje_at_spamcop.net http://www.foldingkayaks.org (nomadics) http://www.findascope.com (choosing a telescope) *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Sep 26 2000 - 07:22:55 PDT
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