>From: "David E. Breeding"/71760.3305@compuserve.com >Date: 1 October 1995 (updated)My wife and I have been married for 34 years. We have 3 sons and one daughter-in-law, and we are expecting our first grandchild in the spring of 1996. We live in Farmers Branch, TX (a suburb of Dallas). I do systems engineering work 5 days a week, and I do counseling and personal growth work at night and on weekends. My wife has a busy private practice in therapy.
My interest in General Semantics started a long time ago, ...but I didn't know it until recently. About two years ago, a friend recommended that I look into GS, and I started collecting the books and reading them as I had time.It all looked very familiar right from the start, and when I started to read Hayakawa's _Language in Thought and Action_, I suddenly remembered reading it before (actually, I think it was _Language in Action_, the original title), in the summer of 1949. I was just 10 years old at the time.
I didn't remember the names "General Semantics," or Korzybski, or any of the other specifics, but the book obviously made a deep impression on me. I had beenaware for many years that there seemed to be a common set of ideas running through the many different things that I have done, and been interested in. I just never knew where those ideas came from until I read Hayakawa's book again.
Some of the other topics and disciplines that I am interested in, and that are related, in my mind, to General Semantics are: