The VOKR propels us to a heretofore deeper and richer level of understanding and connection.
World adventurer Joe Slow owns the baseball that Babe Ruth hit for his 714th home run. One day on a visit to a remote village in the Amazon, Joe decides out of the blue, to sell the ball to the chief of a local tribe. The chief didn't speak English, had never heard of baseball and wouldn't know if the planet was flat or round.
Pete's grandfather was at the game where Babe Ruth hit his 714th home run. Pete's father worked his entire life in Yankee Stadium. Pete has held Yankee season tickets for thirty years. One day, Pete ran into Joe Slow. Joe offered to sell Pete the Babe's 714th home run ball.
Might one assume then, that the concept of value is different to different people?
I have been reading and interacting with Rosa Say on her Web site since November of 2004. Had I not, this essay would mean as much to me as Joe's baseball did to the Amazon chief. Not to say that a first time reader couldn't derive value from reading this, but the deep and rich meaning that I take away can be had in no other fashion.
This is piercing testimony to the value of not only staying connected to a person and her writing, but also of interacting on her Web site over a period of time. This is something that wouldn't have been possible a few years back. This is a fresh, new and exciting world into which we venture. This is the value of knowing Rosa.
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