Klarinet Archive - Posting 000829.txt from 2002/07

From: "rien stein" <rstein@-----.nl>
Subj: [kl] kimber, the wrestler
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 19:55:56 -0400

Dear Kimber

Opinions on this list often are very mixed. Some people like it hot, others like
it cool. Some like popcorn and MacDonalds, others won't even enter a Mac if they
would receive $100 to eat one of these unfamous hamburgers (BTW, actually a
Hamburger is an inhabitant of a rather biggish German town, but never mind). And
some people enjoy mails of not-yet-quite-grown-ups, where others do not.

I will not tell you what I personally think about your person -- honestly, I
couldn't, as I never met you. I used to be a teacher once, a long time ago --
actually I quit teaching before you were born. The most interesting part of the
job was not how well my pupils did on mathematics (there parents were of a
diferent opinion though), but how they were, what their small and, sometimes,
really very big tears were about. All of them considered themselves very mature
and very certain about what they thought true. But one of yout famous poets,
Robert Frost, once wrote:

>>
they would not find me changed from him they knew --
only more sure of all I thought was true.
<<

(Into my own, from the collection A boy's will).

When I read these words the first time, I felt very much in unison with them,
and apparently more people do, otherwise this poem would not have been taken
into Frost's selected poems. It is a feeling I very often met with my 12 to 18
years old students. It is a feeling I recognize in your maails.

Now of course this list does not have the purpose to show us how mature you are
and how well you do on wrestling, I think that is why some purists atack you:
"This is Klarinet, and Clarinet ONLY" (mark k and c). In part I do agree with
them. But I enjoyed most of your mails, filled me with nostalgic feelings about
my time as a teacher (though I am happy I quit the job in time).

For this reason I would say: Let us know more about you, and about how your
wrestling progresses. (Actually my second son, 4 years old, also started to
wrestle two years ago, but that is something that does not concern this list.)
But don't overdo it.

Hope to hear more from you again, and especially how you progress. What do you
play right now? and do you consider that hard nuts, or does ot progress fast?

Good luck, also and especially when "Back to school" has come again.

Rien, (the struggler).

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