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[Jerry Smith]

Hi,

I am going into information overload and will probably
not participate any longer in this discussion.

Jerry
--- schade at acegroup.cc wrote:

> 
> On Feb 17, 2007, at 10:28 PM, Peter Fels And Phoebe
> Palmer wrote:
> 
> > There seem to be qualitative changes that most
> organizations undergo 
> > with  changes in both age and size.
> > With size, certain considerations necessarily
> overshadow the values 
> > that make an organization tasty.
> > Organizations, like living organisms, strive to
> survive and grow.  
> > They protect themselves and change in the process.
> > I wonder if our ABANA hasn't grown too large,
> > too institutionalized, lost the joy
> > of blowing an anvil ?
> > Apologies to any anvil that might be
> offended....pete f
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> I'm not a current abana member. I dropped it a year
> or two ago.
> But as an early and longtime member I think I have
> the right to
> make a comment. Going to anyway.
> 
> I think Abana should sell the Anvils Ring and The
> Hammers Blow
> to who ever would buy the names. Then dis-band or
> whatever the
> proper legal word would be.  Abana did a hell of a
> job bringing
> all the guys (and gals) that were working in their
> garages
> or backyards together.
> 
> But that was then. This is now. There are strong
> regional chapters
> all over the US and Europe. Many have excellent
> newsletters and
> dvds! Many have conferences that rival the Abana
> national.
> 
> The true glory days of the Anvils Ring (inmyopinion)
> was when
> Dimitri Gerakaris and his wife and later when Robert
> Owings were
> editors. Go back and look. Maybe what made it so
> great then
> was that we were all learning at the same time.
> 
> So no tears and no hard feelings. Abana did what the
> original 12
> or so members wanted it to do. Time to wake up,
> smell the coffee and
> move on.
> 
> Nothing wrong with that.
> 
> Bob
> 
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