trying to track an idea

I just sent the following email to a guy I don't know,m because he has a website about another guy I don't know, because another guy I don't know mentioned a book by the guy who is the subject of the guy who is the recipient of my email. My actions may not go any further than that, although I ought to really go back and thoroughly read the post in thinkbuddha.org that triggered this whole thing. My brain is weird.

Dear Mr. (Dr.) Friesen,

This note is one of those lines cast into cyberspace. I don't know what it will catch. However....

....I was reading Thinkbuddha.org and the most recent post mentions Biophilia by Edward O. Wilson and The Troubadour of Knowlege by Michel Serres. They sounded interesting, so I logged in to the public catalog of my university library (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) where I am a Senior Library Specialist in the Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. As I had never heard of M. Serres, I googled him and found your website (i'll spend more time on that later) and googled you and found your assorted interests, including your Explore Ideas blog, which apparently didn't last very long, but seems to be related to teaching classes in history/theology. Do you still teach? Did you find that your students didn't like interacting via blogs?

(One of my passions is to explore cyberspace and find stuff that I didn't learn in college...I still might not learn it, simply because it is much harder to be a school of one and there is too much...I would have to throw all of my ideas into a big can, stick my hand in and grab one idea, and then have someone take the can away, so I couldn't go on to another idea until I have satisfied my curiousity about the idea at hand. (That could be a good way to homeschool my grandchildren if my daughter decides to pull her kids out of public school.)

Why did you pick Michel Serres as your choice of a person of ideas to share with the world?

Thanks for giving me some things to think about.

hugs,

barbara 'kitten' trumpinski-roberts