Re: My Foolish Heart

Malcolm Lawrence (malcolm@wolfenet.com)
Tue, 28 Oct 1997 14:23:56 -0800

Jude wrote:

> The older I get the more I value "nice".  I know it sounds insipid as in
> "have a nice day"  or "he is a nice guy".  But nice means that you are
> thinking of the other person or that you are treating someone else as you
> know you would like to be treated.  God knows there is not enough of that
> around.  all those other things that Malcolm mentioned are great also, but
> I do not think of nice as being mere.

I fully agree. The older I get the more I also realize these things are scarce. I
just don't see it as a proper antonym for "phony" which to me is a much more
complex, uh, attribute.