<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">Thanks, Frank. For pointing us to this brilliant article by Anne Applebaum. I just read it and seem to have succeeded in posting it to by Facebook page where it should be readable. I am struck by her final paragraph</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:AGaramondPro,"Adobe Garamond Pro",Garamond,Georgia,serif;font-size:19.8px;letter-spacing:0.3px">I leave anyone who has the bad luck to be in public life at this moment with a final thought from </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/28/world/europe/wladyslaw-bartoszewski-polish-auschwitz-survivor-who-fought-for-jews-dies-at-93.html" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);box-sizing:inherit;font-family:AGaramondPro,"Adobe Garamond Pro",Garamond,Georgia,serif;font-size:19.8px;letter-spacing:0.3px">Władysław Bartoszewski,</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:AGaramondPro,"Adobe Garamond Pro",Garamond,Georgia,serif;font-size:19.8px;letter-spacing:0.3px"> who was a member of the wartime Polish underground, a prisoner of both the Nazis and the Stalinists, and then, finally, the foreign minister in two Polish democratic governments. Late in his life—he lived to be 93—he summed up the philosophy that had guided him through all of these tumultuous political changes. It was not idealism that drove him, or big ideas, he said. It was this: </span><i style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:AGaramondPro,"Adobe Garamond Pro",Garamond,Georgia,serif;font-size:19.8px;letter-spacing:0.3px">Warto być przyzwoitym</i><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:AGaramondPro,"Adobe Garamond Pro",Garamond,Georgia,serif;font-size:19.8px;letter-spacing:0.3px">—“Just try to be decent.” Whether you were decent—that’s what will be remembered.</span> </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"> <br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>George Duncan</div><div>Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University<br><a href="http://georgeduncanart.com/" target="_blank">georgeduncanart.com</a></div><div>See posts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram</div>
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<div> <br>My art theme: Dynamic exposition of the tension between matrix order and luminous chaos.<br></div><div><br></div><div><h1 style="letter-spacing:-0.02em;margin:0px"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-weight:normal">"Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion."</font></h1><div><span style="font-size:small;letter-spacing:-0.02em;line-height:1.125em"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">From "Notes to myself on beginning a painting" by Richard Diebenkorn. </font></span></div><table width="85%" style="color:rgb(93,86,81);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:18px;margin:auto;border-collapse:collapse!important"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align:center"><p style="margin-top:4px;margin-bottom:12px"><font size="2">"It's that knife-edge of uncertainty where we come alive to our truest power." Joanna Macy.</font></p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:27px;color:rgb(146,146,146);text-align:center"><br></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 7:11 AM Frank Wimberly <<a href="mailto:wimberly3@gmail.com">wimberly3@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div>---<br>Frank C. Wimberly<br>140 Calle Ojo Feliz, <br>Santa Fe, NM 87505<br><br>505 670-9918<br>Santa Fe, NM</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Frank Wimberly</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:wimberly3@gmail.com" target="_blank">wimberly3@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Jun 16, 2020, 7:09 AM<br>Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Important Article<br>To: <<a href="mailto:Russ.Abbott@gmail.com" target="_blank">Russ.Abbott@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="auto">Demographic changes: cf Eric Weinstein.<br><br><div>---<br>Frank C. Wimberly<br>140 Calle Ojo Feliz, <br>Santa Fe, NM 87505<br><br>505 670-9918<br>Santa Fe, NM</div></div>
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