but, I would have had different reasons. Ten years ago I could have told you everything about it, but with a third set of reasons. Today I can't tell you everything about it, because I have acquired enough knowledge and seen enough of this whole phenomena to realize how little we really know about it. But back to my editorials---.

I see myself as having four functions as the Editor of Tvia. First of course, is to find TVs, by advertising, by any means and helping to bring them out of their closets and letting them know that they are not alone.

Second, to provide entertainment and a means of communication and self expression through our publi- cations. Thirdly, I feel that it is my obligation to pass along ideas, that help one to understand, accept and explain to others, and to live with what for all of us has been a difficult thing. Since so much material and ideas cross my desk anyway, I would be remiss, as I see it, not to pass these on to you. How else could I do it but by an editorial? Now, some may call these "preaching" if they think I am trying to hand down from above all the answers, which I most assuredly am not, since I don't claim to know them myself. Or they can be called "teaching" which is a little closer to the truth, insofar as circumstances and fortune have given me access to material, experience and expressions that have been denied to many others. Having exper- ienced, expressed and learned, it is only reasonable to pass this on to someone else in the form of teaching.

There are teachers and teachers. Essentially the job of teaching merely means relating and explaining something one person knows to persons who do not know it. But the secondary aspect of teaching is not merely to provide facts for people, but to stimulate them with ideas--to plant seeds as it were for them to cultivate, develop and, hopefully, to harvest, If I expected all the people who read these editorials to believe them as they first see them, I would be a bigger fool than I think I am. But if I can set forth some idea of mine in such a fashion that causes, you to think, I will have done this part of my job. Even thinking in order to disagree is better than coldly accepting something,

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