If you got anything to say, please say it on
Aroid-L the only place Members CAN write OPEN & PUBLICALLY. Several
Members have bravely done so & given fine unequivocal criticism but
the provokation apparently caused so much consternation
behind closed doors that I got VERY distressing
private emails. I will accept no more & if you do send your NEGATIVITIES I
will answer them POSITIVELY in PUBLIC but leave YOU with your
DIGNITY. So say it in Public!
A World Aroid Club is in my suggested model. an
Association of "TOGETHER" IAS MEMBERS all over the World who know all
the plants each of them have & need, the most important being those who are
key SPECIALISTS in GENERA. An
IAS Members World Living Aroid database. There are
countless "only one" plants in Collections out there about which we know nothing
& which maybe ought to be in tissue culture.
I am the unpaid IAS "News"
Editor
Not for much longer maybe,
tough!
I TRY to be POSITIVE &
GENEROUS!
I TRY to be FUN &
APPRECIATIVE!
Everything is IMPORTANT
Nothing is THAT serious.
I am LOYAL to the friends I commit
to.
I have unimpeachable INTEGRITY
I am to be TRUSTED & to
TRUST
I am VERY SENSITIVE but have no insecure or
fragile PSYCHE
I am not ambitious & have no delicate EGO to
defend
I TRY to treat others with civility, respect
& DIGNITY & expect reciprocation.
I work, like everybody else, but in ten weeks have
wrecked myself for IAS while some spectated positively &
negatively.
I hope SOME of you appreciate my efforts to make
IAS better.
You may not immediately like the way I write but
persevere, often the literature is worth reading, & if you read BETWEEN the
words, you may get the real message. It takes care, &
EVERYBODY who writes publically deserves that respect & dignity.
They may NOT be saying what at first sight you THINK they
are. They are all GOOD people if YOU let them
be.
If you have something to say for good or bad to
help the IAS then do it publically don't just be paranoid, resentful or grouse
about it in private. Members DIALOGUE
surely ought to be EXAMPLES of refined literature.
Thank you for your kindnesses but I have now had
ENOUGH of the few people who aren't necessarily IAS Members who write
NEGATIVELY to me in Private. Write your NEGATIVITIES on Aroid
L so WE can help you become POSITIVE.
This is a WORLD Society. It can no longer be
parochial American with its "offshore" Members. It needs the
help & vision of EVERY WORLD MEMBER to bring it to its GREATEST
POTENTIAL.
In case you have yet to realise
I insist on doing the best job I
can
And anticipate other members will do the
same
Now adapting the Question. Would like some
IAS Member to assemble an ongoing Web Site Member Database of Living World Aroid
Assemblages? Do we have a queue?
And, those spectators on Aroid L who aren't yet
Members, please JOIN. It isn't much. Put your money where your
mouth sounds.
And if I am censured for this, tough, sack
me.
----- Original Message -----
From:
Ron Iles
To: aroid-l@mobot.org
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 1:37 PM
Subject: World Aroid Club?
What's the next carousel?Anything
funny happened on the way to the Show?Tell you what!On the
16th July, one Member in France is still waiting for his Newsletter.Any
auction bids on that?Don't despair! I hope to have News
23(2) ready for Jill our GraphicsEditor to apply graffiti on 24th or 25th
of.....July. So maybe our InuitMembers will get their 23(2)
direct before 23(1)? You just gotta laugh elseyou'd surely
crock. The Web Site "Show" Page is waiting final detailsbefore
posting.The magnificent "Living Rain Forest" in UK is interested in
buying, &exchanging spectacular aroid species which do grow
theirselves big. Ihave now persecuted them into joining
the World Aroid Club. (All theproperly named plants you every
dreamed about may be there where I'm nowplotting....).What do
Members think about having a World Aroid
Club?Spathcobra
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