In a message dated 12/22/2004 9:32:06 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
cookies@shawneelink.com writes:
I know you had mentioned something about writing a story or article about it
for
the Minor Monthly but I wasn't sure you were still interested in doing it,
and I didn't want to pressure you so that brings us to the present.
Dear Jerry:
Merry Christmas!
No matter what I do, Morris Minors seemed to be an irrevocable part of my
life?
This year has been the true test of Love....
I have 9 published articles and 5 or 6 photo essays, some have been
reprinted several times in club newsletters....
A sort of Zen and the Art of Morris Minor Maintenance as it were.
I started the beginning of this year with an idea for an article... A What
if fiction...
What if I made a New Years Resolution to give All that is Morris up forever?
I thought it would be humorous so I started looking at my life and how
tangled up I had become with Morris and things of Morri...
What a huge investment I have in years , things, people, writing & Toys.
I had opened Pandora's Box in my Mind...
Could I give up Morris Minors big and small, the parts, the magazines, the
car shows, the People?
What a giant hole I would tear in the Space Time Continuum at least for me...
Then my favorite Morris Coupe went down and took my friendship of 14 years
with my British mechanic Nigel...
I also sold my Traveler and was left with 3 Morris Minors and although I had
bought my Red convertible pickup back that I had missed so dearly which I
had to sell a few years earlier, I was thinking lets do it if for any no other
reason than to see if it were fate or did I have a choice in this whole
Morris thing?
There is the war. I know, what does that have to do with it?
In my perfect World I have a hard time enjoying The Flealick (See Pig 2 the
movie) existence I feel when I drive my Morris.
There are my Bicycles...
I get the same kick from my Vintage bikes as my Morri...
I found the biggest problem I had was "ME" trying to make sense of it all,
instead of Just Enjoying them....
I can't really explain why I LOVE My Morris Minoring....
And my New years Resolution this year is to go forward and enjoy what comes,
oh and by the way I just committed to buy an old 1956 Traveler that needs
complete wood. I get it some time in January...
Am I still interested in your Cool Van and All the neat work you have done?
You Bet YA!
Merry Christmas
Happy New Year
Your Morris Friend:
Randolph Williams
_Click here to see what left of my web site_
(http://members.aol.com/dolphnx)
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