[rollei_list] Re: Merry Christmas
- From: Ferdi Stutterheim <fwstutterheim@xxxxxxx>
- To: "rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2013 10:19:00 +0100
Thank you Marc. Merry Christmas to you and all Members and to those who are
with you.
My dear mother gave Labour Day a different meaning by delivering me on that day
in the great Summer of 1947.
From Ferdi.
From my iPhone
F.W. Stutterheim
Drachten, NL.
> Op 25 dec. 2013 om 02:39 heeft Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx> het
> volgende geschreven:
>
> As it says: the best of the holiday to all of our List Members and, for that
> matter, to all others. Some of us are Christians, some are of other faiths
> and some, perhaps a majority, are agnostics. So be it. Have a fine day off
> from work, if nothing else. Spend the time studying brain surgery so that
> you can understand how to fix your Rolleiflex on your own. Me? I send mine
> out.
>
> In any event, have a grand day tomorrow (today for some of you). We are a
> wonderful mix of folks, and our massed expertise astonishes the world. Well,
> it certainly astonishes me. You guys are great, and I really sit in shock
> that this List has lasted as long as it has with only one major glitch over
> the years. I have learned so much from the assemvbly that I can never thank
> you enough.
>
> Many folks see the Yule as the turnover of the year. Well, my birthday was
> on (wait for it) 13 JAN 1950, in the City of Lost Angels, LA, California.
> St. Mary's Hospital in Los Angeles and I was born,, as the papers seem to
> show, at 8:54 PM. The doctor noted that this was a 'difficult delivery'.
> Gosh. If the fellow had followed my life, he'd have known the woes I have
> known. This was the era of Joe Friday and DRAGNET. And, to finish the
> tease, I was born on Friday the Thirteenth, and that has remained my lucky
> day. That is when my year changes.
>
> On a side note, some of you are aware of the grand Canon camera scholar,
> Peter Dechert. I received a Christmas e-mail setting out that he was doing
> well in the ninth decade of his life. It has been thirty years since I
> published my Leica Thread-Mount Lens book, and Peter was very much a part of
> that project. He received the first of my author's copies of the book.
>
> Have a grand day, whether you call it Christmas or something else.
>
> Thank you, Rollei People, for teaching me so much.
>
> Marc
>
> It is a good world for doing good deeds.
> -- Nathaniel the Faun
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