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Re: To celebrate 10 years...cast your votes...
Feb 05, 2010, 19:42
Rupert Soskin wrote:
....I've taken the liberty of starting a new thread "In response to Gladman"... because I'm sure we all have some great stories to share from our adventures with stones. I know I'd like to hear them and reckon I'm not alone:-)


Thanks for all the kind words....... had no idea I was tapping a seam here cos I'm so used to being met with blank incomprehension, or - at best - the wry smile, as if to say 'oh, you're one of those are you?', you naturally assume the way you choose to live your life must be incredibly left field. I wouldn't say particularly intelligent either, since many clearly intelligent people wouldn't even consider hiking across Dartmoor to see a few stones... too many creepy crawlies, apparently.

I guess for me the most important attribute for a TMA-er is possessing the desire to learn more about who our ancestors were, what made them tick, what their day-to-day thoughts and dreams might have been... In this respect I guess the most obvious starting point is the physical remains they left behind in the form of their monuments and hut circles/hillforts etc. One of my joys is to go to these locations - if i can bloody find them, that is - and try to see why they were chosen. Perhaps there are magnetic anonomolies and such like, or perhaps they just shared our appreciation of a good spot. Or perhaps, just perhaps, the maxim that energy cannot be created or destroyed means there are indeed other 'traces' we cannot explain. I don't know.

Whatever, it gets me out in the beautiful countryside, I can try to improve my photography, I might learn something and... hell.. I enjoy it! It would appear many others do, too.
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