in writing
Father:
I am fine. I did not reply because I had very little to say. I believe you are telling me your truth. I was just a little boy when it happened, so all the things I've heard are circumstantial, based on vague and sometimes suppressed memories, stretched over years, and day by day wrought and hewn of emotion. And now, after 20 years, it is a moldy story. I think the court will not care about an old case, or about long-past happenstances and forgotten evidence, but I could be wrong. There have been rare times when people have gone to court for something that happened many decades or centuries ago, and they succeeded. I see the truth you told me that your honor and integrity compel you, you were a victim of a grave injustice, and the time that has so long passed has not yet assuage your pain and anger, and for that you fight for a compensation equal to the emotional anguish and the years lost, but I am saddened to admit it is a fight I have no interest in participating. I am sorry you had to spend four years in prison for what you earnestly know you didn't do wrong. And you are very like a person of great dignity. I am glad there are many people who support you and don't believe you are weak.
I hope you will succeed in making new products that will be popular even though your bookstand is not. If at first you don't succeed, try and try again. I hope to see many different and new things of your gift rather than just the bookstand. If you've only invented the bookstand, then it is only one thing. But what if you've actually invented all the things that are in your head, the ideas you have that you can make into reality? Then you have many things! You are a man of talent, and I hope you are putting it to good use, while you're waiting for someone to buy. Making new and new things will help you improve your skills, help you be more efficient in construction, be less wasteful, and make things that are beautiful. That's why you should keep practicing making new things, and you will improve, and you will get a better sense of engineering and business, and you will be able to design things to do what you want, and people will want to buy them.
I know that you would like my support in the form of money, but I have none to give you. In some ways, it is good to have scarcity, because necessity is the mother of invention, and maybe you will learn to be more creative in managing money, priority, and materials, if you know how to direct that energy to better and more fruitful use.
Good luck,
I am fine. I did not reply because I had very little to say. I believe you are telling me your truth. I was just a little boy when it happened, so all the things I've heard are circumstantial, based on vague and sometimes suppressed memories, stretched over years, and day by day wrought and hewn of emotion. And now, after 20 years, it is a moldy story. I think the court will not care about an old case, or about long-past happenstances and forgotten evidence, but I could be wrong. There have been rare times when people have gone to court for something that happened many decades or centuries ago, and they succeeded. I see the truth you told me that your honor and integrity compel you, you were a victim of a grave injustice, and the time that has so long passed has not yet assuage your pain and anger, and for that you fight for a compensation equal to the emotional anguish and the years lost, but I am saddened to admit it is a fight I have no interest in participating. I am sorry you had to spend four years in prison for what you earnestly know you didn't do wrong. And you are very like a person of great dignity. I am glad there are many people who support you and don't believe you are weak.
I hope you will succeed in making new products that will be popular even though your bookstand is not. If at first you don't succeed, try and try again. I hope to see many different and new things of your gift rather than just the bookstand. If you've only invented the bookstand, then it is only one thing. But what if you've actually invented all the things that are in your head, the ideas you have that you can make into reality? Then you have many things! You are a man of talent, and I hope you are putting it to good use, while you're waiting for someone to buy. Making new and new things will help you improve your skills, help you be more efficient in construction, be less wasteful, and make things that are beautiful. That's why you should keep practicing making new things, and you will improve, and you will get a better sense of engineering and business, and you will be able to design things to do what you want, and people will want to buy them.
I know that you would like my support in the form of money, but I have none to give you. In some ways, it is good to have scarcity, because necessity is the mother of invention, and maybe you will learn to be more creative in managing money, priority, and materials, if you know how to direct that energy to better and more fruitful use.
Good luck,
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posted by Alan at February 20, 2009
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