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kp171981
thanks for visiting here, and for your comments - I'm glad you enjoyed reading me.
posted by
mneme
on December 13, 2006 at 12:56 AM
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I loved it
I find myself following your blog. The flow of writing is so smooth and carefree. Very refreshing.
posted by
kp171981
on December 12, 2006 at 6:40 AM
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Ypunday,
I watched Jimmy Carter being interviewed about his new book. What a great thinker he is - a person whose career didn't begin and end with the Presidency.
posted by
mneme
on December 1, 2006 at 2:43 AM
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Saul Relative, nice to meet you. I'll try to take your advice. Bringing up children isn't easy is it, but the rewards are enormous.
posted by
mneme
on December 1, 2006 at 2:41 AM
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Joe Love, I think so too. Not my favourite, but not bad either. I have a couple more of Prince to listen to. And a new one I heard when I was out shopping today. One customer was complaining about the fact that music was being played in the shoe store (Pussycat Dolls), and when the girl said they found it pulled the customers in, she said she didn't like it. Some people are no fun. I, on the other hand, was enjoying it.. that's how I know the band because I asked. I think it's good to hear new things.
posted by
mneme
on December 1, 2006 at 2:39 AM
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Troosha, thanks, and I'm doing my best to make them wisely.
posted by
mneme
on December 1, 2006 at 2:27 AM
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Wiley, the important question is.. did it work? I love how you ended up with optimism here, as long as we've still got that and can wake up each day with renewed enthusiasm, there's a way forward. I have to admit too, that I don't think too much about the next life; I am still trying to figure out this one.
posted by
mneme
on December 1, 2006 at 2:26 AM
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Ypunday, thank you for your encouraging words and pictures. I am doing better some days than others; the journey is a little bumpier some days too, and I have little control over external circumstances, so I try to enjoy life in the main. This evening it is hot out here; my son has four or five friends over and they are in the pool. Life's peaceful. - you must tell me about the books you wrote.
posted by
mneme
on December 1, 2006 at 2:19 AM
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Blanche, Tony, I enjoyed the reminiscing with your comments - I found my kids were always wondering how I knew all the words to "their" music - all those re-mixes of 70s and 80s music.
posted by
mneme
on December 1, 2006 at 2:09 AM
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Hope u are doing fine. Prayers...shalom, Neil
posted by
ILLUMINATI8
on November 30, 2006 at 4:12 PM
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posted by
ILLUMINATI8
on November 30, 2006 at 8:24 AM
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I, too, am a big Purple Rain era Prince fan, mneme. I turned 37 in 1999,
thinking I'd be doing something far different than what I actually would up doing -- working two full time jobs and raising a son on my own. Life throws you curves. Keep your eye on the ball and swing away...
posted by
saul_relative
on November 29, 2006 at 9:42 PM
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If you liked 1999. maybe you should trip some of Prince's new stuff.
He style really hasn't changed that much. Still very listenable.
posted by
Joe_Love
on November 29, 2006 at 4:25 PM
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mneme
The key is that we
do have choices. Some of them we make along the way aren't shiney and brilliant but others land us in a pool of joy.
posted by
Troosha
on November 29, 2006 at 1:00 PM
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mneme
Loved the furniture description on that tour luv, and I do thank you for the brain upgrade.-;)
I never would have thought about putting a CD in the DVD to play it.
Ach, I'm older so it's even more understandable.
Yes, I too have lost my way now and then on this life walk, but we recover somehow, and find a new self with the old self memories.
Then it seems like melancholy becomes more a comfort than a curse, and in my case I spend almost as much time thinking of the next life as I do living in this one.
But tomorrow is Wednesday, and maybe the sun will shine when I get out of bed, maybe I'll go to the mall and see a pretty face and my spirits will lift with the possibilities that life will actually call me somewhere new with someone new.
posted by
WileyJohn
on November 28, 2006 at 6:20 PM
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"When Doves Cry" is Prince's only one that I like--what does this mean then
I have come to accept, that the JOURNEY of life is the DESTINATION. We are where we are supposed to be right now...we have some control, but usually less than we think. Others help us succeed, but at some cost to our ideals...they circumscribe our freedom and success. It seems you are doing just superbly. Even if I made a million dollars, I still prefer leaving the books I wrote behind as my legacy of how life touched, taught and toughened me (a bit). Shalom-Neil
posted by
ILLUMINATI8
on November 28, 2006 at 12:18 PM
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Yes, Blanche, i still like a hell of a lot of 70s stuff.
In fact, it's my favourite musical decade, when the pioneering changes of the 60s were developed and recordings improved in sound quality. Then a lot of the old musical expertise was ditched, but the kids of today somehow know a lot of the old stuff, whether from their parents' collections or some other way, and I think they appreciate the musical quality.
posted by
Antonionioni
on November 28, 2006 at 11:24 AM
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Tony, I've been thinking that same thing, that the music I listened to in
the 80s has not worn well. Most is gathering dust, so I'm cleaning out the collection, and trying to decide what to keep and what to toss.
Strangely, I still like The Eagles, both greatest hits and Hotel California, I think because they are so laid-back and mellow.
posted by
Blanche.
on November 28, 2006 at 5:12 AM
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Prince has dated quite badly, I think.
Most of his stuff has that plastic synthesised 80s sound. He got slightly better after a while, but then he did that awful 'Most Beautiful Girl in the World' dirge. Anyway, I often look back at old musical favourites and count the years in between then and now. There was the first stuff I listened to, then the teenage years, then the 'more recent stuff' I listened to in my thirties. Our memories often make the old music seem like yesrerday, I suppose because the music itself doesn't change, but the scary thing is when you see what these former pop stars look like now, compared to then - especially when they are one of the 'more recent' bunch, and they look middle-aged, fat and grey-haired. Scary!
posted by
Antonionioni
on November 28, 2006 at 5:10 AM
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I can't think of any Prince songs, except "Purple Rain", I haven't thought
of him in years, except that annoying pretentious thing he did with his name. I just found a Broyhill nightstand, and was over the moon. I've been needing one.
posted by
Blanche.
on November 28, 2006 at 3:47 AM
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I'm signing off for the evening...
I seem to be drawing some fire here and I don't need any noise tonight. Goodnight everyone.
posted by
mneme
on November 28, 2006 at 2:50 AM
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twisted mom
Actually I think that may be part of the problem. When everything is so different, everyone has to go through a period of adjustment and it is much easier for the husbands because they basically do the same job, with different surroundings. So they get their continuity that way. It is the wives who have to cope with the practical changes, for example where do you buy this or that, and to generally keep family life more or less on track. Too often that isn't acknowledged, and tension builds up. I do feel for you and hope that it will all work out.
posted by
mneme
on November 28, 2006 at 2:45 AM
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No...it has definately not been a happy time..i think that it would have been better if we had been a "family"...but.....
posted by
twisted_mom
on November 28, 2006 at 2:35 AM
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twisted mom,
Well I hope you do, because you haven't really enjoyed being away. Sometimes the pressure can really get to you.
posted by
mneme
on November 28, 2006 at 2:32 AM
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I should be...I am playing the waiting game...the paperwork has left the BN and gone to the island's general....
posted by
twisted_mom
on November 28, 2006 at 2:23 AM
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I hate those things...they always seem to come in at once...and at random times..
posted by
twisted_mom
on November 28, 2006 at 2:23 AM
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generally, and BTW
Cicadas I don't mind, however tonight there are flying ants obstinately finding their way around the insect screens, and they are intensely annoying. Splat.. there goes another one.
posted by
mneme
on November 28, 2006 at 2:08 AM
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Twisted mom..
thank you sweetie. I have lost my way because I feel stranded here. I'm glad you are going home soon ( I assume you still are..) - it will give you back a sense of who you are, and you can go from there. You'll figure it out.
posted by
mneme
on November 28, 2006 at 2:06 AM
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I think that everyone loses their way once in a while...it is those that find it again who are special...
posted by
twisted_mom
on November 28, 2006 at 1:56 AM
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