Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about all the friends I’ve made since I started playing Irish music. I’ve given thought to all the festivals, sessions, ceilis, concerts, and stores I’ve been to now because of it. I’ve remembered some people who have become VERY dear to my heart, and some who are like family now.
And as I thought about it, I realized that there is one man really responsible for almost all of it. Our own humble Dale Wisely. He doesn’t poke his nose into the board’s comings and goings much, and when he does, it’s almost always with a happy note, or some other silly such thing.
My life has changed quite a bit since I started playing over three years ago now. I’ve taken it all on as a sort of identity of sorts. And of couse, there’s no end in sight!
My hat is off to you Mr. Dale Wisely! I truly wonder if you comprehend how many people’s live’s you’ve touched, and how many people you’ve brought together through the simple act of being you? I’ve met literaly HUNDREDS of peole, that, if I had lost interest in all this whistling business, I would never have met otherwise.
The circle of friends I hold in the highest respect, the deepest trust, and the most love have all been found through the graces of your work Dale.
Well said Brian! I have similar thoughts and feelings. My life if mucher richer because of Dale as, I suspect, are the lives of many others.
Thanks Dale
jim
“…have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.” Rainier Maria Rilke
You indeed have touched so many, Dale, and I don’t know how I can top Brian’s post in expressing that. In recent months I have discovered a whole whistler family for myself that I would never have met if it weren’t for your devotion to this site.
He’s Dale, and he’s Wise! Cried the Elfsong that day,
While the Serpent, he waited, to carry away,
On the back of a brewer, Sir Paul was his name,
The great wooden whistle, was “Copeland” it’s name?
“But nay!” cried out Wisely, “Thou must not confuse,
The Sindt from the Grinter, man, which wouldst thou use?”
Cried the Chieftan, “I’m hopelessly lost in the dark!”
So the Wisely sent him to speak to the Clarke.
But the Clarke had a Sweetone, that none could deny,
And Rose, why, the prices were deemed much too high,
So Dale said, "Lads, ye’ll find me unswerving bad,
But nary a one o’ ye’d best post an ad!
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Sorry to be a plonker but I think that should be ‘bragh’. Perhaps spelling differs from place to place.
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Concerning Dale, I echo the sentiment, however you spell it.
1 : Don’t bragh about your spelling
2 : D-A-L-E
Before chancing upon C&F, I never imagined I would join some Internet community,
and have to write in a foreign language,
and getting involverine into flame wars,
and feeding more silliness in pointless threads
and daring my worst Acne brand puns since high school years
and endure cuteness
and hunt for emoticons
and love it all.
As we say over here :
Dale, c’est pas que dalle
Here’s to you, Wisely guy!
[ This Message was edited by: Zubivka on 2002-12-14 05:46 ]
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Sorry to be a plonker but I think that should be ‘bragh’. Perhaps spelling differs from place to place.
I dunno- based on the pic I saw on the C&F Christmas Sale newsletter, it oughta be spelled "braghless)…
Dale may call himself the King, but in my book, he’s Da Man! Can’t thank him enough for the encouragement he’s given me as a new whistlemaker, and for all the friends I’ve made via Chiff and Fipple. Paul
Do you know how rich Dale Wisely would be
If we all paid the psychologist fee?
Here on his internet couch we all choose
To confess our obsessions, whistle the blues,
Boast our accomplished rendition of reel
And wonder how whistledom’s wisest must feel
About what he’s done here; what is his gift?
He’s satisfied we’re all fippled and chiffed!
On 2002-12-13 23:45, livethe question wrote:
Well said Brian! I have similar thoughts and feelings. My life if mucher richer because of Dale as, I suspect, are the lives of many others.
Well, I guess you’re one of the lucky ones…I’m much poorer since I happened upon Dale’s site.
