bits and random pieces...

[rosy1]

My head is filled with ideas lately, what surfaces most is the concept of being a "late bloomer".

Is it that some people really develop skills later in life or is it just different things are allowed come to the forefront and they are finally rewarded after years of steady, sound work?

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[jvmatucha]

My wife said she couldn't stand learning english for a long time, that she thought it was a boring and confusing language, until she started reading Doris Lessing. She said that was her first enjoyable experience with the english language. My mother turned me on to her writing.

[pasley]

I am a Lessing fan. I've taught some of her stuff in my class, and students respond well to it. And her novella, The Fifth Child, is one of my favorite works of literature. . . though best not read when one is pregnant!
Rosy, I heartily agree with you about authenticity, about having the right values and priorities in life. Now in my mid/late 30's, I'm finally beginning to feel like I'm gaining the wisdom to rid myself of those things---even those people---that seem to tug me off the road toward the self I am striving to become. It's a long, hard journey, but I think it's worth it.

[rosy1]

And, I recognized in you Pasley, an authentic soul... first online and then in person.

I always contend there are two types of people, those that feed your life force and those that drain it. If you surround yourself with the former and rid yourself of the later, the journey becomes much less puddled.

Did you ever record your Lessing classes?

[pasley]

I recognized in you Pasley, an authentic soul

That's sweet of you to say---right back atcha! I am still far from where I want to be. It's a long and winding and rocky and "puddled" road ahead, but an interesting journey!

No, I never recorded the classes.

[swestrup]

Yes, people really can develop skills later on in life. Folks used to think that the brain got too set in its ways as you got older, but recent studies have shown that's not the case.

And the Nobel Prizes have always been very political. Einstein was denied the prize for years because he was a Jew. In the end, they only rewarded it for the 'photoelectric effect', one of his more minor contributions.

[rosy1]

Nobel Prizes have always been very political.

Agreed. Al Gore?
No wait, what am I thinking, he did invent the internet ;D

[rehenazelreyhan]

This gives me hope - not that I want to win that kind of prize, but that great things can be achieved without that piece of paper.

[rosy1]

And it gives me hope that one can never be *too old*!