Does Mrs. Follett find Rousseau's confessions or your own more illuminating?

Interesting advice.  One must live with and make peace with one's choices.
People who chose more sensible if less loved paths seem to have a harder time
accepting the results, when events force them to evaluate.

There is no vow of poverty and certainly no vow of chastity...but relative to
more sensible careers, there is an acceptance of modesty and tenacity.  Lately I
have come to believe that the men/women I  admire most, particularly in
preservation, also find it easy to forgive.  Maybe by the time you have enough
work behind you to impress someone, its easy to forgive the mistakes of others,
because you've made some humdingers.

-jc


Ken Follett wrote:

> In a message dated 4/16/00 10:48:51 AM Central Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> << I am following my intuition, and the tough part about that is, you never
> know where it is leading. >>
>
> Don,
>
> Many who are involved in histo presto have had at one point to make a similar
> decision as to following the heart or the money. I have had ample opportunity
> to follow the money. I'm not particulalry complaining at this point, but
> there have been, and I expect there will be again, some pretty rough times.
> Eventually health maintenance becomes more of an issue than money. I'm
> stubborn enough to continue to believe I can live my life the way I think I
> should live it, not that it always works out the way I want it to, but it is
> the daily inspiration of being engaged in life through work that makes it for
> me.
>
> Your description of your path through education also strikes a chord for me
> as I have long held that one should seek education in those areas that are
> illuminated in the consciousness... meaning, if the subject is in your vision
> and gets your motor going then learn anything and everything that you can
> about it, then move on to the next area of light. This can be a lonely
> direction, as it rarely conforms to formal education programs where students
> congregate. Per example, right now what I would like is to find someone that
> I can chit chat about Rousseau's Confessions with besides my wife.
>
> ][<en