Sunday, November 12, 2006

In response to Rebecca

Rebecca, thank you so much for sharing your wonderful story! I think you have something very important to say and you express yourself very well through your writing. I appreciate the response to my video and thought it was cool that you related your experience last summer to my desire to create global conversation.

Your words paint a vivid picture of your experience. I can picture the whole evening, the crazy trip to the bar, watching the video game artists and and am envious of all you saw, especially the Japanese spoken word! I would love to know how your grass-roots experience compared with your time on the official school tour. Also, what do you think you learned, about yourself and the world, from your time in Japan?

I remember you telling me about your experience in the bar, but I didn't recall all the great details! First off, what bravery to embark on this side trip, but that doesn't surprise me about you. You are the one who completed a major, mulit-day eco-challenge in your early adventure racing days. It seems your bravery leads you to some pretty cool experiences!

So, it sounds like the video artist taped you as well; did you ever get a chance to see the video of your meeting? I was also wondering if he published the videos online? Based on what you have written, I would love to see his work =)

You are right, synchronicity was at play for you that evening. You believed you were going to find a unique experience through your risk, one that would have an impact. And the artist believed he would find an audience to appreciate his vision. How wonderful that you got to meet! You helped each other fulfill your vision. Stories like that give me faith.

Thank you again for sharing your experience. You are right about there being a lot of other "deep romantics" in the world. As much as I complain, I find a good number of people who speak my language. The kind of people who appreciate a global message. You for example, you like to have conversations where you share different perspectives and you enjoy meeting people from other backgrounds. Not everyone is like that, fine with me. But it is what I prefer and so I seek out others who are the same.

In fact, my life is full of great conversation. For me, using the web isn't a way of finding different conversation, it is creating new conversation in a different way. Your German friend seemed to be attempting the same thing. What he is doing is so creative, so special; I appreciate you putting me in the same class.

You are something special too Rebecca. I have seen first hand how important you are to Dan, Cassia and Johnna and am sure you are just as important to your students. I am sure they all think whatever you say is important.

Anyway, I think there are a lot of cool people all around the world, people like you Dan, Cassia and Johnna. I hope to use the Internet to connect to those cool people all over the world.

If you are right Rebecca, and I hope you are, there are a lot of others in the world who see life through a lens similar to mine. Maybe I can encourage them to speak out, to begin a global conversation.

Thank you for participating...

DRB

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