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Re: A collectors journey to collecting


   What no respondents??? 

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> From: Tim Heitz 
> To: Meteorite List 
> Subject: Fw: A collectors journey to collecting
> Date: Friday, June 06, 1997 6:44 PM
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>    What no respondents??? 
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> > From: Tim Heitz 
> > To: Meteorite List 
> > Subject: A collectors journey to collecting
> > Date: Thursday, June 05, 1997 4:38 PM
> > 
> >      I believe that all collectors ,whatever they collect,share a
> > broad psychological profile they bring a wide an absolutely
> > indistinguishable passion to the collecting of a wide variety
> > of objects.It starts as a romance,with all of romance's sense
> > of evanescence.
> >      Collectors have an overdeveloped sense of finding something
> > that is on the verge of being lost,something that is deserving of 
> > their careful custodianship.
> >      For every collector who shares his excitement and pride in his
> > or her collection,there are ten or twenty people who can't help
> > themselves.
> >      They inevitably go about forming societies and issuing
newsletters.
> > In fact ,I'd submit that a collector hasn't moved beyond the stage
> > of being a mere hoarder,until he or she seeks out others with the
> > same interest.The truest collectors also collects fellow travellers.
> >     At about the same stage in a collector's evolution,he starts 
> > trying to go beyond the object itself,to try to understand the time
> > and circumstances that produced it. I firmly believe that the seed
> > has to be on fertile soil and believe collecting can be nutured.
> >     In a sense its the object that collects us,and not the other way
> > around.
> >     The same meteorites that we collect today,in the future, they will
> > be rediscovered with the same enthusiam.We are just short term
> > keepers,its the meteorites that will pass through time, as they 
> > already have for millions, even billions of years.Why are people
> > drawn into collecting meteorites? I'm sure everyone has a story to
> > tell.I sure would like to hear someones story,perhaps someone 
> > would like to share one with all of us. 
> > 
> > A collector at heart,
> > Tim Heitz
> > http://home.stlnet.com/~easytim
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >    
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