Thanks Ryan for offering Walt Whitman to read on the blog ;-) Learning from strengths no matter which gender, generation, language is more my mind set - but making differences explicit is often refreshing any relation - also in the work and market place. May I kindly suggest to exchange a 9 for an 8 in the publication year of the opus ;-) that fits better the 19th century origin. From the fifty years of mine I gently conclude by citing the same poem, but a different part: "O you youths, Western youths, So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship, Plain I see you Western youths, see you tramping with the foremost, Pioneers! O pioneers!"