<div> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Dale:<br> <br> With love and all due respect, I do think it's silly (in the goose-like sense, bro!). We can only put our love out into the world in so many ways. To feel constrained from posting your thoughts, and particularly to feel that you have to constrain your "unbridled enthusiasm" (I picture wild horses), is simply ego and pride (you asked!). The problem arises from <b>expectation</b>. When we expect something from the universe, we front load the actual results with what we want; what we want then colors the reality of what we get. It's harder to see, and sometimes harder to take. So maybe stop expecting and just put your love out there. If someone has a problem with it, they have to live with themselves, not you. Don't rent space in your brain to them!<br> <br> With the deepest regards,<br> <br> Paul<br> </font></div> <div> <br> </div> <div> <br> </div> -----Original Message-----<br> From: Erwinspiano@aol.com<br> To: pmc033@earthlink.net<br> Cc: pianotech@ptg.org<br> Sent: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 2:47 pm<br> Subject: Re: why I don't post<br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_2_891952f3-dbd7-4429-831e-7bb274e8eb4c"> <font id="role_document" color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"> <div> <div>  Good post Paul</div> <div>  Actually I refrain from posting often because of something probably silly.  But,In the past when I have posted things I thought might be of interest, the silence was deafening so I don't know how to interpret that. Generally I classify it as disinterest due to the shop nature of the topic or that somehow due to cyber -dom My unbridled enthusiastic show and tell style is misconstrued as .......well...something else unintended.</div> <div>    Dunno But since we're clearin the air.</div> <div> </div> <div>    Dale Erwin</div> <div> PS  Maybe it's my speliingg or Thesssar-u-s wrecx....Conrad...Nahhh.</div> <div>  Please feel free to lambast me ----off list</div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid blue; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px;"><font style="background-color: transparent;" color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">Hi:<br>     Contrary to what you might think, there are many of us (most) who will be<br> more than happy to answer any piano-related question you may have.  <br>     There are different repair procedures which have evolved over time for a<br> particular malady.  It's amazing to discover that, even for simple repairs,<br> many different techniques exist.  That's the advantage of this list. 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