[Jewelry making - Article 00456] - Re: [Orchid] UK Orchidians

[Michael Honeycutt]

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    This topic has been of great interest to me. I lived in Wales for a
    year  and a half in the 70's. In fact, it was  the US Bicentennial.
    The locals  were some of the most interesting people I've ever met.
    We, in the US,  tend to have very inaccurate ideas of what people
    elsewhere on the  planet are like. I had totally, well...stupid,
    notions of what the  people and country were like. I made it a point
    to get well away from  Americans whenever possible (within reason, I
    was a Navy man on a RAF  base) and get into whatever the local
    people were doing. I learned,  probably more than anything else,
    that those people were just like me.  They had similar relationship
    problems among themselves, some of them  were total jerks but most
    of them were fine people. They lived, laughed,  loved, cried and
    bled just like me. It's a time of my life that I  remember with
    great joy and I truly hope to go back some day. 

    It saddens me that our friends in the UK face such trouble with 
    "Traditional" notions and attitudes. I would strongly encourage you
    fine  folks to get together in any way possible (over a pint at the
    local pub  if need be) and compare notes. Any of you that have
    access to the  internet may be able to relay questions from your
    contacts to this forum  or some of us that frequent to Orchid realm.
    Surely there must be some  way for us to share whatever we can with
    you. The Orchid forum is meant  for such things. 

    I'm still quite new to the jeweler's arts but I remember the great 
    friendships I had in Wales and I hate to hear of the state some of
    you  are experiencing. Please find ways to network with each other.
    One way  to overcome the restrictions of traditional biases is to
    think outside  of the box they try to lock you in. Discuss! Debate!
    Communicate!  Experiment with new, non-traditional ways of doing
    things. Get together  when you can and have a group play session.
    You can feed off each others  ideas and inspirations. I hope things
    get much better for you all. 

Mike

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