tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post5113380576390847319..comments2024-02-24T18:30:26.749-07:00Comments on prairiemary: WHY WON'T THEY COME IN OUT OF THE RAIN?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-55417809117544994222012-05-21T13:28:45.911-06:002012-05-21T13:28:45.911-06:00Hi, Prairie Mary. I enjoyed your words about outli...Hi, Prairie Mary. I enjoyed your words about outliers. I'd like to tell you about out outlier. Penniless? Not at all. He was a sophomore in a private college in the 1970s. He'd been radicallized by the Vietnam War and was very much a back to the land person. We paid our part of his tuition, he contributed his part and the college gave a generous grant. Still he needed to take out a loan to get to the complete amount. Being the natural skinflint he was, he took a campting tent and a kerosene lamp to a steep wooded slope behind the college and set up camp, thus eliminating dorm fees and a student loan. He worked in food service for his meals, and took care of showers and other bodily functions with the help of a friend who sneaked him into the dorm. He lived that way for one whole school year.<br />Our son is 62 now and still working for the cause -- provding weatherization advice and services through a utility in Eastern Oregon. One more outlier,not out of necessity, but because he's always been a goat among sheep -- and how we love him. Willa HolmesMary Strachan Scriverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00538160009129822362noreply@blogger.com