Thanks We're all striving for a better world, each according to
   their strengths. Since there's not yet a magic, "Make everything
   better at once" bomb, or a set of magic words we could say that
   would reverberate through the world, make them stop and go,
   "ohh! I see now!" and then improve... the efforts must continue.

   Had I been more bold, I'd happily been traveling, giving talks,
   educating, distributing information, yet that's not a strength
   of mine. Sitting behind my computer and typing a lot is where
   I'm strong I'm an armchair philosopher. Yet unlike armchair
   philosophers of old, the ability to connect vast distances and
   engage at some level through the Internet is extraordinarily
   powerful, so I don't feel hampered.

   Seeing you doing what you do, and having a historical connection
   to what you're doing - gives me kind of a "grandpa"/"uncle"
   feeling of, "Yup - that's my boy out there!" - and, well, I'm
   proud of you.

   I read the works of John Holt (Unschooling / why johnny can't
   read) and about Summerhill school back when I was in middle
   school - just tripping over them in the library.. and being
   fascinated that there were *alternatives* out there, not just to
   education but to how I thought of myself in relation to the
   world.

   And I'd like to think that, if John Holt or the guy that founded
   Summerhill decades ago, or other people who never even knew me,
   they'd look forward in time and see my efforts that I did and
   go, "Yup - that's my boy out there!"

   I'm weird though; I think of Time as kind of like that Thanks
   again man.