Wednesday, January 28, 2009 12:01:08 AM

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Flow of Mourning Calm Tears

What happened yesterday will never be sorted with words. It began with the Mourning Calm and after the tears stopped I could see very well.

Later has come and joy amazingly came in the mourning "if you can see the arctic light." Today I again met some great folks from different parts of Alaska, the "lower 48" and the world in general. Hearing the cheerful reviews about their visit to this place where I'm serving right now has been great.

Among those visitors were business owners who are discovering the high cost and complexity of keeping a web page attractive, but MOST importantly CURRENT and fill with helpful information paving a road between customers searching for that "unique" Alaska experience and their business which provides that experience.

I would say I'm pretty fortunate as my hobby has been to keep my web page as active and current as possible. Each change of my home page becomes a new layer on top of a cake which now has hundreds of layers under the first one people see. I believe I need to begin making a list of the various pages I have made for my specific interests so anyone looking to create a page can pick a design; but now I realize that the most wonderful advantage I have is living right here in the middle of Alaska with all its excellent beauty surrounded by great people who need active, attractive and ALWAYS UPDATED web pages for their businesses or hobbies.

I have enjoyed keeping my page going for many years now, but sharing my joy of spinning the silk that puts the magic in the weave of a home page takes all the arachnophobia out of making a "web" page for me, and this should be the same for others. I'm very open to sitting down for a personal talk about what people want rather than being the "unseen" vendor waiting for a tug on their foreboding web. So if you are interested, send an e-mail to me or give a call at (1-907-374-3964) in the evenings or if you have Skype you can leave a message at AL7MI-ALASKA.

Final words regarding where the Internet is heading. From all the hype and flash of what the World Wide Web (WWW) can provide, it has come down to all the dazzle of a brick wall blocking human contact providing only a way to see and hear an electronic rendition of the world. The most pathetic culmination has been some telephone service providers way for allowing a dad to play a game using a Rubik's Cube with is son far away in another part of the world.

Having grown up on the wave of wireless communication, I knew the thrill of making contact with stations far away on the other side of the planet; but I have also watched the development of packet communication develop into what people take for granted today's as their e-mail. After a life behind the machine that links me with the world, I can honestly say that a machine can never replace real live face to face conversation and sharing of a warm hand shake, hug or a cup of coffee. To see a smile, hear a robin in a tree, smell fresh brewed coffee and taste a cookie and get a warm hug is something a machine (computer) can never do.

However, with the right skills a machine can be used to pave a way to real life experiences that involves all of our senses to the point of conveying what a machine can never convey. What can't a machine convey? I believe that healthy people would agree that machines are incapable of conveying any empathic sense of fellowship and love; the very thing that breaks the wall created by the machine world of isolation.

Yes, I have been behind machines all my life, but now that I live right next to a world where there is no Internet, cell phones, TVs, electricity or roads and buildings; I realize that the "real world" is right outside my door; a world of a vast beautiful wilderness near the top of the earth where magnetic field lines capture invisible charges from the sun to create the mysterious aurora and in the summer the sun never sets. Who in their right mind would want to sit behind a machine when something of heaven is right outside?

Now for me, I hope to use this Internet and the web pages spun with html code along with my great amateur radio equipment to invite the world to my REAL WORLD before they lose out and die a miserable life in some self imposed lumber and concrete prison trying to believe they are happy with a life behind a computer. No thanks! I will use it to write and invitation to come and have a cup of coffee or tea and talk about ways to make a html coded silk path to their business and lives but most importantly, to use technology to bring people together to discover a world few will ever see in the life they now exist in. Alaska, I love it because intense winter cold and permafrost with towering mountains and beautiful rivers will not yield to man's puny efforts. In the 11 years I have been gone, the permafrost has saved a beautiful fresh memory for me to return to; it's just like I never left. It's WONDERFUL!!!

 

 


 

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It Begins In Light

 

English Lessons

from the days when

Meaning Was Conveyed Gracefully

 

I pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldest keep them from the evil.--JOHN xvii. 15.

 

 

In busy mart and crowded street,
No less than in the still retreat,
Thou, Lord, art near, our souls to bless,
With all a Father's tenderness.

I. WILLIAMS.

 

 

Only the individual conscience, and He who is greater than the conscience, can tell where worldliness prevails. Each heart must answer for itself, and at its own risk. That our souls are committed to our own keeping, at our own peril, in a world so mixed as this, is the last reason we should slumber over the charge, or betray the trust. If only that outlet to the Infinite is kept open, the inner bond with eternal life preserved, while not one movement of this world's business is interfered with, nor one pulse-beat of its happiness repressed, with all natural associations dear and cherished, with all human sympathies fresh and warm, we shall yet be near to the kingdom of heaven, within the order of the Kosmos of God--in the world, but not of the world--not taken out of it, but kept from its evil.

J. H. THOM

 

   

 

 

 
 
 

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