Changes

It feels like a long time since we’ve had a friendly fireside chat.  It is not as though everything is at a standstill or in [[stasis]] but the configuration has changed, the [[energies]] have shifted, and adaptations must be made.  I [[hope]] you don’t conclude that we don’t need these [[conversations]] anymore, that you are grown up now and don’t need the props of [[creativity]] such as we are in the minds of many, or therapists as some see us, or even figments of the [[imagination]] – magic carpets upon which [[writers]] may ride.  While some of/all of this may be true, we are still a venue through which to convey [[relative]] [[reality]], whatever you may think that is or isn’t, and while we can hardly profess to be the be-all and end-all of your [[education]], we remain [[teachers]] anyway and as such that is what we do.  

It feels like a long time since we’ve had a friendly fireside chat.  It is not as though everything is at a standstill or in [[stasis]] but the configuration has changed, the [[energies]] have shifted, and adaptations must be made.  I [[hope]] you don’t conclude that we don’t need these [[conversations]] anymore, that you are grown up now and don’t need the props of [[creativity]] such as we are in the minds of many, or therapists as some see us, or even figments of the [[imagination]] – magic carpets upon which [[writers]] may ride.  While some of/all of this may be true, we are still a venue through which to convey [[relative]] [[reality]], whatever you may think that is or isn’t, and while we can hardly profess to be the be-all and end-all of your [[education]], we remain [[teachers]] anyway and as such that is what we do.  

   

   

This is part of our assignment, after all, to help you to become teachers.  There is no talk at this point of your having become so proficient at what we have been teaching you that you no longer need our [[guidance]].  That would not be true.  We always need to learn from those who go before us, who reach back and tell the others what they have [[discovered]].  In this way you all become a [[http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_and_Clark Lewis and Clark], heading out through the [[cosmic]] [[wilderness]].  What [[wondrous]] land you will discover, what [[amazing]] [[creatures]], and what rigorous and heartfelt lessons you will learn as you make your way.  And from our [[perspective]], we are at least as [[entertaining]] as most of what you will find on [[http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television TV].  

This is part of our assignment, after all, to help you to become teachers.  There is no talk at this point of your having become so proficient at what we have been teaching you that you no longer need our [[guidance]].  That would not be true.  We always need to learn from those who go before us, who reach back and tell the others what they have [[discovered]].  In this way you all become a [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_and_Clark Lewis and Clark], heading out through the [[cosmic]] [[wilderness]].  What [[wondrous]] land you will discover, what [[amazing]] [[creatures]], and what rigorous and heartfelt lessons you will learn as you make your way.  And from our [[perspective]], we are at least as [[entertaining]] as most of what you will find on [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television TV].  

   

   

Where shall we begin?  What shall we talk about?  Shall we talk about the [[http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather weather]?  Gerdean, what questions did you have in [[mind]] to ask about?

Where shall we begin?  What shall we talk about?  Shall we talk about the [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather weather]?  Gerdean, what questions did you have in [[mind]] to ask about?

 

===Dialogue===

===Dialogue===

Gerdean:  I’m not sure but what it may have already been answered in your preliminary comments, Merium.  At least nothing else is rising to the [[surface]] of my [[consciousness]].

Gerdean:  I’m not sure but what it may have already been answered in your preliminary comments, Merium.  At least nothing else is rising to the [[surface]] of my [[consciousness]].