Comments on: Ah, the joy of organizing: going through old papers https://thenewneo.com/2006/05/02/ah-joy-of-organizing-going-through-old/ A blog about political change, among other things Sat, 04 Aug 2007 06:06:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: moonchild https://thenewneo.com/2006/05/02/ah-joy-of-organizing-going-through-old/#comment-13898 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/05/ah-joy-of-organizing-going-through-old.html#comment-13898 Neo

I came across your blog when looking for one that might relate to the one I’ve just started. I too am a woman in my 50s, with an office that sounds like yours and politics to match. Amongst my papers are some bits and pieces of my mothers writings, poetry she’d had published, diaries etc, decaying further every year, so I thought what a good idea to make a blog as a sort of tribute to her and her creativity. She wrote a charming family newspaper called The Sparkling Brook starting in 1938 when she was about 10. So I scanned some pages, scanned a few postcards sent from a POW camp in WW1 by my grandfather … and had every intention of next adding the diaries my mother wrote as a teenager in the 1940s. Except that now they’ve disappeared. I know they are in this house, probably in one of my ‘treasure’ boxes. And I know I will have to go through piles of papers to find them and along the way find the memorabilia you talked about, all evoking various memories.
It’s a big job and I’ll do it … soon. First I have to stop reading blogs and pack my bag to catch a flight first thing in the morning. But when I come home ….

]]> By: Farm Hand https://thenewneo.com/2006/05/02/ah-joy-of-organizing-going-through-old/#comment-13899 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/05/ah-joy-of-organizing-going-through-old.html#comment-13899 Neo:

Scan it into your computer. That’s what I did with my old stuff that I thought I might want to keep. Better than nothin’, and you can then toss all the paper.

]]> By: douglas https://thenewneo.com/2006/05/02/ah-joy-of-organizing-going-through-old/#comment-13900 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/05/ah-joy-of-organizing-going-through-old.html#comment-13900 …I feel my dis-organization guilt rising…

]]> By: Ymarsakar https://thenewneo.com/2006/05/02/ah-joy-of-organizing-going-through-old/#comment-13901 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/05/ah-joy-of-organizing-going-through-old.html#comment-13901 Why don’t the Brits or the Europs “get it” and stop talking about Republicans and Democrats being right/left wing? Why don’t they talk about what issues they have different from their own politicians? Is that too much “cosmopolitanism” to ask of the mightily cultured Euros and Brit lands?

Why’s everything have to be centered around their own little village and scale of balance, anyway? What happened to cosmopolitan’s natural tolerance and understanding of foreign cliques, customs, and politics? What happened to “All politics are local”?

I don’t know. But I do know that cosmopolitanism is a good thing and parochialism is a bad thing.

]]> By: neo-neocon https://thenewneo.com/2006/05/02/ah-joy-of-organizing-going-through-old/#comment-13902 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/05/ah-joy-of-organizing-going-through-old.html#comment-13902 sb: I wrote to Oliver Sacks about a memory glitch a friend of mine was having involving the words to songs. Sacks wrote back a 4-page letter, longhand!

Anyone who wants to read an excellent book of his–his best, IMHO–should take a look at An Anthropologist On Mars.

]]> By: neo-neocon https://thenewneo.com/2006/05/02/ah-joy-of-organizing-going-through-old/#comment-13903 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/05/ah-joy-of-organizing-going-through-old.html#comment-13903 And thanks to all who offered suggestions on transferring the writings from the Brother.

Although at the rate I’m going, the technology will have been totally transformed by the time I get around to doing it.

]]> By: neo-neocon https://thenewneo.com/2006/05/02/ah-joy-of-organizing-going-through-old/#comment-13904 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/05/ah-joy-of-organizing-going-through-old.html#comment-13904 The Saturnyne: Your reaction is very gratifying. One of the reasons I write this blog is in hopes that people will realize that those on the right are not demons (although I still don’t consider myself to be “on the right,” I’ve grown used to the fact that others define me that way).

Very glad you stopped by.

]]> By: Robert Schwartz https://thenewneo.com/2006/05/02/ah-joy-of-organizing-going-through-old/#comment-13905 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/05/ah-joy-of-organizing-going-through-old.html#comment-13905 Seconding Joan. I have found the OmniPage that came with my Canon multi function 5500 to be very good. On freshly typed copy, it should be almost flawless.

]]> By: The Saturnyne https://thenewneo.com/2006/05/02/ah-joy-of-organizing-going-through-old/#comment-13906 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/05/ah-joy-of-organizing-going-through-old.html#comment-13906 Hmph!

I was looking for a philip larkin poem and found your blog first…

When i saw your words about changing your political religion, i was all ready to roll my eyes and top it off with an arched eyebrow… from over this side of the Atlantic, the Republicans are viewed as extreme right-wing, and the Democrats as right-wing. mind you… our so-called left-wing party (Labour) is also now viewed as right-wing, too! Bloody Tony Blair… we really really hate the guy, and his spin, and his strange eyes hinting of madness, and his righteousness… ugh!

But reading deeper into yr writings, i find i quite like you and your blog, regardless of any political leanings.

Pleased to meet you.
*bows*

S.x

]]> By: Ymarsakar https://thenewneo.com/2006/05/02/ah-joy-of-organizing-going-through-old/#comment-13907 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/05/ah-joy-of-organizing-going-through-old.html#comment-13907 I remember the story about one house where a woman was buried in the trash, and died due to suffocation before they found out what had happened. The woman was a pack rat and was collecting stuff in her house to the decks.

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