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Character, what character, Tony, where's Marie-Claire.

I need some friendly voices, not these barracudas that swarm all over me.

posted by Blanche. on December 10, 2006 at 5:48 PM | link to this | reply

My own love and relationship is ujp in the air, Moon, it makes me erratic

posted by Blanche. on December 10, 2006 at 5:47 PM | link to this | reply

Oh, so sorry to hear that, Moonspirit, hang tough It's rough, but it gets

better. The heart does heal by God's grace.

posted by Blanche. on December 10, 2006 at 5:46 PM | link to this | reply

Just read the last few short poems, Blanche.

All enjoyable. A lot of people seem to feel the same about making the most of now, don't they? And it makes sense  - or does it? Food for thought. We need to balance the now not so much against the past, but against the future. That's what your character is doing, which is planning for the future. This, paradoxically, often has to take precedence over the now.

posted by Antonionioni on December 10, 2006 at 11:56 AM | link to this | reply

Blanche, it seems that all we ever have is Now - the eternal Now; we spend so much time in the past - trying to either 1) escape the past or 2) reclaim the past - or in anticipating the future - we miss Now. I talked with a dear dear friend last night - more than a dear friend - a dearest love - about this; past is dead - future is unknown/uncertain - can we live fully Now? MoonSpirit

posted by chitravathi_moon on December 10, 2006 at 9:18 AM | link to this | reply

Afzal,

posted by Blanche. on December 10, 2006 at 2:08 AM | link to this | reply

Mneme, you just reminded me of the song "I was a free man in Paris",

by Joni Mitchell, of course, off the Court and Spark album, which I have  here on tape somewhere, I need to get the music together for my dinner party, thanks for the reminder. Ah, Paris, good times..

posted by Blanche. on December 9, 2006 at 5:48 PM | link to this | reply

A poem on introspection.

posted by afzal50 on December 9, 2006 at 5:06 PM | link to this | reply

Nice, Blanche.. the thoughts behind this remind me, a little, of The Ballad of Lucy Jordan (if I've remembered it right).  I did get to drive through Paris, in a sports car, with the warm wind in my hair.  I don't regret or miss that part of the past; what I miss is my sense of an ambient present and a tranquil future.  'One day at a time' works best for me at the moment.   

posted by mneme on December 9, 2006 at 4:16 PM | link to this | reply