Show or tell: what is it when it's at home?

[brynmawr1]

I think one of the criticisms of telling is that it lends itself too much in telling the reader how they should feel rather than letting the reader come to it on their own.  

Well Steve,
I think you hit the nail on the head.
Of course, a certain amount of telling is necessary, and we all struggle with that balance.

Yea, I think this is the correct answer

so that's the frustrating thing.  Telling is bad unless it is done well as exampled in Busker's T.S. Elliot poem.  Hard for us beginners to absorb.  Kind of like english as a language.  More exceptions than rules.