Resent-From: "Frances L. Haynes" <FLH8929@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU>
Resent-To: "Jan F. Cohen" <janfcohen@pb.net>,
        socgrad <socgrad@CSF.COLORADO.EDU>
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Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 07:57:29 -0500
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From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young)
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Subject: Poems for Progressives
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To All--Post Hasty Pudding etc.
This little (oops, long) greeting is Rambling's from Granny Franny.  It began
as a letter to a Daring Jung Man who is beginning a quest for grad school and
the Academic world beyond.  So while some of the letter is directed to him,
it provides me an opportunity to share in a multidirectional manner.  Take
what you like and leave the rest.  There are some ASIDEs which are intended to
clarify info which has previously passed between Jan and I.

Howdy, Jan.
I left the header info on this, just in case you wish to respond to the list.
This is the SocGrad List that I told you about. Like the other list where
we have been embroiled in our mutual efforts to dry the tears, dispel the
fears, while striving to thrive not merely survive-- This group has a number
of "Survivors!" That is those paradoxical people which Bernie Siegel discussed
in Love, Medicine and Miracles.

There are some names that come quickly to mind:
Dan Ryan, Alan Davidson, Lloyd Klein, Laura Miller, Tom Conroy, Morton Ender
(who has left our base camp prep league to move to The Show!--oops switched
analogies.)  And many others.  My own favorite East Texan A******, Tim -and
yes, I'll tell him I said that--he knows I love his extremist swings of
perspective, but he's not bad once you give him the break: "Oh, yeah, he's from
Overton, Texas which is a suburb <G> if Tyler! did leave the list in a bit of
a huff in his defense of TR.  But that's Tim, another one of those hidden in
Plainview surprises that Texas A&M has in the world of sociology.

These people can help you on your Climb! Up Giants Shoulders or Mountains or
stream or following the heartbeat, you have found the vision and pathway of
your dream, and now as you seek the grad school which is "Right" for YOU and
yes, more important! for Eric--believe me Dawn, Andy, and John Kelly were the
primary reasons that I ended up in my own Aggie WonderLand (the too often
nightmare, but what I needed)!

Those of us who know that the line between The American Dream and the American
Nightmare of Daily Living, KNOW that the fine line is a GREAT DIVIDE: a
Rift which MUST be Mended (Hmmm, sounds like a good topic for a dissertation!
<G>) (ASIDE: to the list: Yes, I am getting a certain pleasure out of being
obvious in Plainview, in tossing about each abstract clue,
However, in this cyberspace meet, I'll try to be more concrete! <G>
Jan has collected a great deal of data and info regarding social, legal, and
economic impact of divorce, child custody, welfare reform, etc.  He was
geared towards publishing a book titled: The Great Divide: Mending the Rift.
However, he began seeing the value of having his work grounded in a stronger
understanding of the various methodologies and theoretical perspectives. So
this is most probably his dissertation title-THEN the BOOK! <G>)

So in your search for the Next Stepping Stone
You join kindred minds, no longer fighting alone.


I hereby declare:
WHEREAS TR is not so young in age as I, but he is one of us Daring Jung Men...

WHEREAS I am not so Jung as thee, but still we know the best is yet to be...

WHEREAS thou searchest far and wide to expand the horizon of your already vast
vision...

WHEREAS my greatest preference would be to capture you and take you away to
my own beloved AggieLand, I would be remiss and selfish to prevent you from
full access to other possibilities which are beyond your wildest blue yonder
dreams...

WHEREAS TR has the best interests of his children (students everywhere) whether
 still formally enrolled in an educationally setting or students of life of
which he is A GIANT!...
I HEREBY DECLARE:

Jan Frederic Cohen would be an awesome asset to ANYBODY's graduate program.

S/He was/is/will be a Giant among Giants, with a heart as big as Dallas,
with the love of life that the biggest little people find.  The impish,
fairytale quality of Her/is illusion serve the same purposes for which
many of us strive.

Best wishes to Jan and all in their Graduate School pursuits.
*******
Perhaps this would be a good day to make re-visions on my own VITA.  My
committee chair is coming out this afternoon to AeroSpacious to visit with
Andrei, Luda and I.  The view over the lake was just awesome as the sun came
up this morning!  Right now it is a smooth as glass.  Since the leaves have
finally fallen completely off the oak tree, the view of the hill across the
lake is breathtaking with a golden sun breaking through the swirls of soft
billowy clouds and miles high blue sky.  Andrei says the thing he will miss
most when he gets back to Moscow is the Texas Sky.  (Gee, I thought it would
be me <G>!)

(ASIDE:  AeroSpacious is what I call my house at Hilltop Lakes Resort City. It
is a take off on the Bible story of Paul visiting in Athens.  He went to
Aeropagus where "The Athenians and the foreigners did nothing but speak of
New Things."  So here is to Rerum Novarum in 1998 and the new millenia of
which WE ARE THEM and THEY ARE US!  The leaders, the thinkers, the New and
Not so dead and not so white and not so gender-stereotyped Social Scientists/
Philosophers/Activists of the Fin de Millenium!!!

Gig 'em, Aggies
Jist mah lil ol' way uh sayin' Peace be with Y'all durin' this Halladay
Tahm.  And Ah hope yu-uns all had a Kick Butt good 'un.

And Most High Priest, Father Young, Forgive me for I know what I am doing:
My battle cry for New Year's Day, however, is not so peaceful, but the
competition is within the rules of the game and no harm intended.  As two
outstanding groups of student-athletes whose Brawn of the Bruins meets the
Brain of the Aggies (oops, bad Aggie Joke)  (Yes, some people think Gig 'em,
Aggies means we are saying "Peace on you." but I promise that's not what I
mean!)
So the battle cry is this:
Aggies!  Beat the Hell outta UCLA! in the Cotton Bowl.

Or tomorrow my Alma Mater: Go Pokes!  OSU in the Alamadome against Purdue!
Okay, Jan and all of you other non-football fans, just humor the old broad!

Seriously, my best to all.  I'm looking forward to perusing TR's poetry page!
I've always been impressed with his wit, words, wisdom and most important his
sense of WONDER!

Frances Haynes
A TEXAS "Aggie from Muskogee" OKLAHOMA USA

Who hopes someday, somewhere, someone will step up and say:
I'm proud to know ya! Thanks for the moment when...
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
For those of you who like poetry, I've
just created a poetry file on my personal home page.

go to:

http://www.tryoung.com/trspage.html

....for those of you with children...check out the
postmodern, politically correct Christmas Stories...
More to come as I get proficient with html, up-loading,
down-loading and re-loading.

and...for those of who more than atheists but less than
theists...you might like to check out:

	Maybe That's What God it...

	a distinctly postmodern durkheimian understanding of the god concept.

and...those of you of my age might like to take a trip down memory lane
in a postmodern anti-war prose poem written in anger, love and revenge
during Operation Desert Story...it's called:

		America, The Great

Then too, Dragan Milovanovic, Bruce Arrigo and I are creating a
Postmodern Criminology Home Page which should be on our domain in a
few weeks...Dragan and Bruce are particularly good at pomocrim; I keep
things honest with a heavy dose of marxian, critical, feminist and
humanist sociology in the articles posted.

							best ever year for you, TR
TR Young
8085 Essex
Weidman, Mi.,
	48893
Email: tr@tryoung.com