The old days

Yesterday, Allen H., locomotive on the A-train group, posted a handy guide to various Texas geographical & other (Texas) oddities.  It threw me into a state of unregenerate nostalgia.  

http://www.texasescapes.com/TexasGhostTowns/Whiteflat-Texas.htm

I lived in White Flat, TX from the ages of 6 to 7 YO.  I went to school in Matador, Texas, 10 miles to the south.  They are places of primal beauty.  Well, in their own way.  

Oh.  Nearly forgot.  I *started* first grade in Flomot, TX.  

http://www.texasescapes.com/TexasPanhandleTowns/FlomotTexas/FlomotTexas.htm

I remember my first day of school.  What I noticed was that there were Other People there and all the noise bothered me.  I was upset that I was going to have go back the next day.  I threatened to burn the school down.  

I may be possessed of a disposition as sweet, agreeable & generally compliant as a body might ever want to meet, but do not test me.  I had a childhood in the Texas Panhandle. 

Yaaahooo!

R. 
 

http://gg9-tto.blogspot.com/

Process philosophy is good for you...

Alfred North Whitehead lived until the age of 86.  Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss, his two students who became major philosphers in Whitehead's own tradition, lived to 103 and 101 respectively. 

 

Paul Weiss won an age discrimination suit at the age of 91 when his university tried to forcibly retire him. 

 

I am deeply influenced by the process tradition--and I take vitamins. 

 

R.
 

http://gg9-tto.blogspot.com/