[Vision2020] Out of curiosity . . .

[Tom Hansen]

THAT's the Nick Gier I have grown to admire and respect.

Thanks, Nick.

Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .

"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
http://www.MoscowCares.com
  
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"There's room at the top they are telling you still.
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,
If you want to be like the folks on the hill."

- John Lennon

> On Mar 25, 2016, at 10:42 AM, Nicholas Gier <ngier006 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Tom,
> 
> Please forgive for not replying about my preferred footwear.  I've had a few pairs of Nikes, but I've worn many other brands.  My first running shoes were Adidas, and they were just track shoes.  That was 1966 and I was on a Rotary Fellowship in Denmark at the time.  The Danes thought it was very strange, because none of them wore athletics shoes. 
> 
> Every day, as a part of my daily work I ran around the national stadium, and I was the only runner the entire year.  One dark winter afternoon some Danish brats ambushed me and called me names.  I returned the curses with a lame response.  All l could come with was "I smaa sviner" (you little swine!)  But it worked.  They scattered and hid in the bushes.  I could hear them say "Han maa vaer svenkser" (he must be a Swede), which for them and many Danes is the worst type of alien.
> 
> My Danish student friends thought is was also odd that I came all that way to study their famous philosopher Kierkegaard.  At that time the Danes had pretty much ignored him as an eccentric, who criticized their bourgeois life-style and their church.  The only professor who lectured on him at the University of Copenhagen was a Hungarian refugee by the name of Gregor Malanchuk, who spoke Danish with a heavy accent and in Kierkegaard's 19th Century Danish.  I couldn't understand him, and Danes in the class made fun of him unmercifully.
> 
> When I went back to Denmark on my 1985-86 sabbatical, the Soren Kierkegaard Institute was well established, but still most of the professors were still foreigners.  The Danes have now reluctantly acknowledged their great thinker.
> 
> Sorry, Tom, for the long digressive answer.
> 
> Nick
> 
> 
>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 6:52 AM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
>> Does Nick Gier wear Nike gear?
>> 
>> Has John Deere ever received a "Dear John"?
>> 
>> And an inquiry concerning Little Richard . . . but not now.
>> 
>> Suffice it to say that inquiring minds want to know.
>> 
>> Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .
>> 
>> "Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
>> http://www.MoscowCares.com
>>   
>> Tom Hansen
>> Moscow, Idaho
>> 
>> "There's room at the top they are telling you still.
>> But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,
>> If you want to be like the folks on the hill."
>> 
>> - John Lennon
>> 
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> -- 
> 
> A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. 
> 
> -Greek proverb
> 
> “Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self- imposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another. Sapere Aude! ‘Have courage to use your own understand-ing!—that is the motto of enlightenment.
> 
> --Immanuel Kant
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