[meteorite-list] Collection succession planning

From: Dave Gheesling <dave_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:56:48 -0400
Message-ID: <E24C00FF4CBE4D368E5694DB76A36E1B_at_meteorroom>

Linton & All,

Thanks for reading the article, and I'm glad it may have inspired an idea or
two. Thanks to the few dozen who sent very nice off list notes about the
article as well. I'd say all of our collections are humble at the end of
the day, and that it's humbling for us to have them at all.

It's not often that repeatedly hearing things like "your article really
scared me" is a good thing, but it's great to see that some thinking may
have been provoked. Simple stuff, but oh how often we let the simple stuff
fall right through the cracks of time ;-)

All the best,

Dave
www.fallingrocks.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Linton Rohr [mailto:lintonius at earthlink.net]
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 4:28 PM
To: dave at fallingrocks.com
Cc: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Collection succession planning

Dave,
I enjoyed reading your article again, despite having read it in Met Mag
already.
I'm in the midst of updating the "recent" acquisitions and sales in my
humble collection. I'm living on borrowed time already, as we all are
really, so it is important to me that my wife is left with more than a pile
of rocks to sort through. Your article gives me some ideas on how I can
improve my system. And don't worry, I'll enjoy life while doing so. ;^)
Thank you.
Linton

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Gheesling" <dave at fallingrocks.com>
To: "'bill kies'" <parkforestmet at hotmail.com>
Cc: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 4:21 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Collection succession planning


> Bill & All,
>
> A couple of notes have come in expressing trouble with the link, yours
> being
> the second, so go to www.fallingrocks.com, hit Links & Resources on the
> home
> page, then hit "Temporary Custodians" under the Media header.
>
> Interesting to see insight from you re: concern over negative things, but,
> to keep this positive, perhaps you might spend two minutes giving it a
> read
> before posting said assumptions? I doubt the notion is one that might
> drive
> readers to a monastery or Zoloft. Pretty simple stuff, and a real shame
> when
> such an easy thing to do is overlooked until it is too late.
>
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bill kies [mailto:parkforestmet at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 1:07 AM
> To: dave at fallingrocks.com
> Cc: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] Collection succession planning
>
>
> Are we temporary custodians? That implies we owe the collective in a
> Jungian
> way. If you consider all the negative things that could happen to our
> meteorites/belongings, you'll either become a monk or a nervous wreck.
>
> Everything should be recorded in case of an accident but life comes before
> the provenance of any collection. Time is so short for us.
>
> This comment is based on an assumption of what your article was about as
> the
> link didn't work for me.
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
>
>
>> From: dave at fallingrocks.com
>> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:19:01 -0400
>> Subject: [meteorite-list] Collection succession planning
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I recently wrote a brief article that Larry ran in the August 2009
>> issue of Meteorite Magazine entitled "Temporary Custodians," and the
>> response has been a bit surprising. Somewhere around a couple dozen
>> readers have taken the time to drop me an email saying things like
>> "thanks for the heads-up article...[it] made for uneasy reading."
>> Surely there are collectors on this list who do not yet subscribe to
>> Meteorite Magazine (and everyone on this list really should!), so,
>> given the topic, I'm posting a transcript below.
>>
>> The content is by no means comprehensive, but I'd really encourage
>> those of you with meteorite collections to give it a quick read. Most
>> of us have been guilty at one time or another -- or at all times -- of
>> leaving loose ends such as those described in the writing. Anyway, a
>> web version of it can be found here:
> http://www.fallingrocks.com/FRarticle-082009.htm.
>>
>> Larry, I hope you don't mind my posting it here, and thank you again
>> for giving the topic coverage in Meteorite!
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> Dave Gheesling
>> IMCA #5967
>> www.fallingrocks.com
>
Received on Fri 30 Oct 2009 08:56:48 PM PDT