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: Hi Stan, : For some reason, your name and memory flashed thru my head this a.m. and since I'm belatedly learning the computer, I tried Google and was pleasantly surprised to find you so remarkably well represented by so many websites. : I don't know if you will remember (I have an almost freakish memory, but ca. 1967 Russell Kirk suggested I say hello to you as I ped thru Indianapolis. : About your age,I recall your picking me up in the Star's editorial waiting room and escorting me back to the city room where you introduced me to a senior editor, saying, "This is Jim Barrett, a friend of Russell Kirk." The three-way chat lasted a few minutes, but that was it because shortly after I left the job that took me to your town. : Over the years, I've occasionlly seen how you were doing by a random references in this or that newspaper or magazine. : This is just a quick "Hi", and mainly-- congratulations! on your achievements as reflected in your set of web references. I'm very glad that you've gotten to sing your "song", your deep views on our beloved but parlous body social. : As for me, I'm semi-retired and am currently planning to start (!) in about two years to write my book on traditionally-oriented remedies for the zeitgeist's wounds from the standpoint of the perennial philosophy and Christian premises. : During a 10-year career in communications and 25 years as marriage and psychological counselor, I've kept deferring my nonreportorial public writing: out of what I felt was prudence, but other might call pusillanimity. I lost contact with Russell after I declined when he wanted me to answer a request someone had put to him for a conservatively-oriented college English instructor. : Lest I go on too long, let me close by saying I was struck by the web reference to your idea that the movement from medieval to modern doctrine can be demonstrated by only Roman Catholic (my main moral "language")spokesmen. : The malaise of our time is rooted in the loss of the intellectual authority of traditional Judeo-Christian doctrinal premises. In a word, the decline of the moral authority of the Bible virtues in our cultural heritage...so aulted by the philosophes and their heirs in the academy. : So, whether or not you remember our brief meeting of long ago, my hat's off to you Stan for what you have accomplished! I'll say a prayer for your continued good work. : Your humble servant (as Russell sometimes signed his letters!), Jim Barrett : P.S. Can you do my the favor of Replying this note back to me for my Outlook Express Inbox records. As a tyro on the computer, I tried to save this note to My Doents, but all that saved was your webpage with the Message box blank. So I had to re-write. : Perhaps you can supercript a line or two at the top of the Reply. Thanks. JB

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