The Name Game (or More-on Lyceum)

This, dear mother and other brother and sister (and sister in law too!), is what I've always enjoyed about Dan's letters. Even as I am reading through them (never reading fast, usually chuckling in the wrong places), I am forming a mental list of the tangents I want to address. I don't usually write them down (and no this is not more agenda), but here, in no particular order:

1. I need to Google Plato and gadfly.
2. I've got an adjusted motto that reflects philology!
3. More on the name game (pun intended?)
4. The corporate structure?!
5. The etymology - or is it phraseology - of Carry it forward.
6. A story about stories.
7. A story about doodling.
8. Are we now inviting Chad Hummell into this circle? And this is not ironic?
9. Thoughts on mediocrity and self-effacement.
10. Are the Fed papers all Madison?
11. Anne, any comments on the turtles names Grinch and Brian?

Thanks Dan. My response:

1. I will Google this later. It is Sunday, after all.
2. "I love words and say odd things." But we should still somehow include the word mealstock.
3. How about we just call this the Name Game and dwell on this endlessly ---who needs production?
4. Name for name, Game for corporate structure. Or More-on Lyceum, if you insist.
5. "Carry it forward" (completely tangential now) was a slogan from the civil rights movement.
6. I vote no. Then again, my lasting memory of Chad Hummell was when he stole my teddy bear with a diaper on it and ran around the Knudsens house, completely shaming me. Oddly, I don't remember ever meeting Chad after that.
7. Attached. This is from my 1990 files. I think I was studying existentialism at the time.
8. Attached. Also 1990. But your diagrams do rise above doodles, Dan. Very good.
9. Really, Dan, enough of thinking your position is unfulfilling. We all let our minds wander to the after hours, and we all wonder what more we can be in life, but that doesn't make our present settlement mediocre. Even when the day grinds, appreciate where you are at, not just where you will be at 6pm. Everything is part of God's daily gift. Or maybe I'm just being platitudinous.
10. I always think more of Hamilton.
11. Anne, your thoughts on this?

Love, Jon