>Dear XMCA-ites;
>
> It turns out that once one gets into thinking about mediation, things
start appearing in
>threes. So here is a third and final note in this year-end splurge before
turning back to textbook
>writing and baby care.
>
> I wonder if it would be possible for members of XMCA, lurkers,
chatters, deleters, and
>all, to write a brief "New Year's wish" for a topic they would like to see
discussed. I get my wish
>early because I am very interested in the question of identity formation,
and we will be having
>our lab seminar devoted to the topic of culture and identity formation for
the first 10 weeks of the
>year and there are some folks on xmca who have asked that we post summaries
for discussion.
>But there are SO MANY issues that strike me as of pressing relevance and my
intuition is that
>the same is true of everyone on the list.
> Usually initiatives such as this fall flat, so if the past predicts
the future (said he,
>casting a glance backwards, and reaching out to feel behind him for the
future while
>chatting with his neighbors), this note will be greeted by silence. But it
others were to chip
>in, we might open up some new topics of great concern to our multiple
sub-constituencies,
>and get the illusion that the pile of new stuff at our feet wasn't entirely
garbage after all.
>
> Warmest greetings for the new year.
>Mike
>