O Happy Day (fish stew recipe)

[Carl Remick]

>From: "Dennis Perrin/Nancy Bauer" <bauerperrin at mindspring.com>
>
> >Our labor symbolized nothing, and left us
> >mentally sluggish in the dusk of the evening.  Intellectual activity is
> >incompatible with any large amount of bodily exercise.  The yeoman and 
>the
> >scholar -- the yeoman and the man of finest moral culture, though not the
> >man of sturdiest sense and integrity -- are two distinct individuals, and
> >can never be melted or welded into one substance.
> >
> >[end of excerpt]
> >
> >Carl
>
>What mental and physical wimps! The idea that intellectual effort is best
>served by doing nothing but reading and staring off into space (or typing
>posts filled with academic jargon) is absurd, but I'm sure quite comforting
>to those who run screaming from the sight of a shovel or hoe. I find that
>after a day of labor, I'm able to think more clearly, view matters in their
>proper perspective. The mental and physical sides are balanced.

There is much to what you say, Dennis.  I certainly find heavy gardening 
work (which, to be sure, isn't agonizing stoop labor done at a forced pace) 
far more satisfying than sitting at a keyboard writing corporate propaganda.

Carl
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