>From: Slingr@aol.com
>Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 23:47:37 -0400

Steve Stockdale - 41yr, DWM, seeking....(oops, wrong bio)
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Steve Stockdale - Irving, TX. Divorced for 3yr after 12yr marriage. 12-yr old
daughter Stacy here in the area. From the Texas Panhandle, 'higher' education
at the Air Force Academy in Colo Springs, B.S.-Humanities, played football
for two years. Served in the USAF as a KC-135 navigator for six years in Fort
Worth, TX and Minot, ND. Employed by Texas Instruments as a program manager
in our defense systems group. First read Hayakawa's _Language in Thought and
Action_ in 1979. Very impressed, but not enough to change to my life. Big
mid-life 'crisis' around '89-90, started therapy in Jan '91which led to a
separation and divorce and  re-discovery of 'self'. Attended "The Forum"
seminar (successor to est...does that cause a 'semantic reaction'?) in Dec
'92 , during which I was reminded much of Hayakawa. Re-read his book, made a
new friend who had studied g.s. in the '60s, he lent me his S&S and _Art of
Awareness_, gave me a membership in ISGS, and I was off and abstracting. Been
doing it ever since. I'm in it for the long haul, very interested in how to
communicate it to a broader audience. Yes, I have an attitude, but....if I
don't have it....who will?
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The longer version of the above is in my article published in the Spring '95
_ETC._.

I like Bill's use of the word 'community'. I attended the annual summer
seminar-workshop last summer (are any of you getting tired of hearing about
this? well, deal with it) and really got a sense of the 'community' amongst
the staff members. I'm excited about going back to Hofstra on the 21st for
another go round - I'm going to do it till I get it right! And the neat thing
is that I'm going to get to meet Richard Plourde and Carmen Clark along the
way!

Thanks, Bill, you get the credit for a GREAT idea! [as it seems, to me   :)]

Steve Stockdale

"A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes
across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards
and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice *his* thought, because it is his.
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come
back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more
affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous
impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of
voices is on the other side. Else, tomorrow a stranger [or, in this case,
Bill Doherty :)] will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have
thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our
own opinion from another." - from "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson