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johnredbear Started conversation Apr 4, 2009
I find that I speak a lot in writing. It is almost like I am thinking on a page. So I remind myself that if I do not say what enters my thoughts just because it is there, I must guard against writing my thoughts just because they are there. I have been guilty of this. I am glad it is only in writing. I am taught that to fill anothers ear with the sound of words is rude. So I am normaly quiet. Some see this as rude on the part of my people but it is very polite! My daughter says I am 'laconic'. At first I thought it a great insult against my way but it is not. Now that I know by her words what it is meaning. She said that it speaks of a people now long ago gone and the warrior ullyses came from that place in Greece.I read a book about him in a great war and sailing to so many places when I was a young man and it was like a dream to me to value. It was a very hard book and much of it I did not understand. I was given the use of it by a nun her name was Sister Roseseaphim and she taught us in our village when I was a boy. I liked her. The other nuns were cruel and slapped us for speaking pagan. I did not understand what is pagan, I thought it was another people that were very evil and then my grandfather told all to me. I was confused, 'I do not speak any words but my own, maybe she hears different words from my mouth and the mouth of my freinds, so she is mad.'I am not laconic in writing, is this bad manners? One can choose not to read and it is a quiet thing but one cannot choose to turn his back on a speaker or it is a greater offense than too much speach. Too much speach is a weakness in character to turn the back is an offense of purpose. Also I find that I must be slow and think hard or my words will be babbling to someones ears since I write as I think and try to use good english words for my thinking. Not so much to be very very proper more to be understood of my meaning. I write very proper if I must but it take so so long to think that I forget my thoughts before writing them well. The main reason I have written today this entry is to say how veryvery smart are the people here. I have many good thoughts to read from them. I am liking this very much. Only a handful of people I know have this thinking, usually the elders and maybe one or two of my place. No young men. I like this place a lot now. I always make rabbit trails in my apges. This is not good writing but I write as my thoughts take me and am not of a discipline to be corrected yet. I hope people dn't think me a fool. I do not wish to be any other than a part of the 'community' of BBC. Not a leader just a part most especially not a babbling fool. But I cannot hide my face entirely or I will not be known and people will think that I hide to keep from them evil intentions. That is the only reason to hide except for shame and I am not yet ashamed of myself, people have been welcomming to me.
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