Comments on: For Those Whose Work Is Invisible

By: Clifford

Clifford — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 16:30:42 +0000

cmj: – of course!

-cvj

By: Matrix

Matrix — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 16:27:37 +0000

Line 4 as you would guess is my favourite, followed strongly by line 9. Thanks. cmj

By: Clifford

Clifford — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 04:50:16 +0000

Gray Lensman: I did find it odd that teachers were not mentioned…. thanks.

janet: go for it!

-cvj

By: janet

janet — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 03:52:05 +0000

I started to write a paean to dentists, but I thought that might be a little geeky, even for this crowd….

By: Gray Lensman

Gray Lensman — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 00:06:03 +0000

“For seventh grade teachers, whose effects may not be seen for generations, if ever.”

By: spyder

spyder — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 22:46:28 +0000

You are quoting a song by the Roche sisters! That in itself is indeed revealing about you and your musical tastes. I, along with my friends, have enjoyed them for, dare i say, decades. They are hugely appreciated by the core constituency of the Oregon Country Fair family as well as various small enclaves of “hip” people hidden in the foothills and rolling coastal mountains of CA. A tribute to Shirley Horne and then a Roche sister song: it is all too much.

By: Philip

Philip — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:50:47 +0000

You might want to read “Coal Train–II” by John McPhee (The New Yorker, 10/10/05)for a big-picture sense of how much we depend on “those whose work is invisible.”

By: Plato

Plato — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:22:20 +0000

A “eureka” moment does not have to be a flood light, but the smallest gain. Would you do it, if you weren’t paid?

How could “one thing” be devalued by such “a moment” that by what another is doing, could be devalued by the “lifelong” measure?

We are not all Faradays for sure, but by the grace of lifelong ideals, we bath:)