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By: Lion and Magic Boy » Blog Archive » blackberry envy

Lion and Magic Boy » Blog Archive » blackberry envy — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:12:46 +0000

[...] I had elected to remain at college and just sort of hang out there for the summer, the summer after spring break. It was really quiet since most people had homes to go to, or jobs maybe. Me, I took the bus to the [...]

By: Karoliina

Karoliina — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:45:37 +0000

You write very well, Karen.

Hugs,

Karoliina

By: lightspring

lightspring — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:18:01 +0000

Cyn, write you some poetry while you’re there, willya?

Daniel, it’s all good. Life IS beautiful, all of it.

By: Cynzim

Cynzim — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:15:25 +0000

yeah

we’re in mercury retrograde now and it’s sure as hell kicking my ass

moon in scorp just to make sure all those

plutonic issues come up

feeling
healing
dealnig

as i used to say in many yaers of getting from point b to

point d

ah!

the points!

we (my dtr and i) are about to go off to my own favorite
place by the sea for a two person getaway

i haven’t had an alone getaway since becoming a parent

i know it would be both liberating and overwhelming as i’d have to fit in

both a shitstorm of repressed feelings needing to be rain down and out

and also

about a million hiking steps and paths and walks and if there was anyone handy you know i could use some of that, too.

and a cup of coffee.

i used it think it

the trip alone

was gonna happen when my dtr got older

but then my parents did.

(pause for rueful laughter)

make that one word like how i first typed it

ruefullaughter

amost sounds like

roomful of laughter!)

and other people got sick

but that is okay

there is beauty in the womb of rue and

the rafters overhead

shine

like teeth in the mouth of night.

enjoy your trip

may we enjoy ours

you know…

ruefullaughter

i can never write “trip”

without immediately feeling

my self

and every one else’s

rocking along on camels through the journeys we call life.

to the sea!

cynzim

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:23:03 +0000

What’s up with all those boys treating you badly!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:53:51 +0000

Wonderful story telling.

By: lightspring

lightspring — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:00:10 +0000

Interesting observations, Ron, especially about the prose style being somewhat fictionalized. I have 50,000 words of barely-fictionalized autobiographical prose that one day might become a full novel. Even if it doesn’t, it was a wonderful creative exercise and served to get a lot of issues front and center.

But I’m looking at a second vacation, also by the ocean, in a few days, and I’ll be largely alone. In my mind the contrast between the two is huge (I’m really looking forward to this trip and have a lot of peace about it), but of course everything is connected and I can’t pretend that the issues I wrote of in this account don’t affect me even now.

The writing process is rather fascinating.

By: Ron Volkman

Ron Volkman — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 03:27:03 +0000

Wow! Just Wow! That *IS* a “lotta life” there. And did you ever try to figure out what the effin’ “lessons” were supposed to be in all of that? Oddly, the style of prose you wrote made me think you were writing a fictional tale. Then I wondered if that style of writing helps to keep that mind-numbing pile of events at some bearable arms-length. (I guess I think too much though.)

As always though, that fact that you are able to bring it front-and-center here is an awesome testament to human resilience, and yours in particular.

Blessings…