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Hi Wiley
thanks for looking in.
posted by
mneme
on February 6, 2007 at 3:26 AM
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mneme
I've been too busy to post as well luv.
posted by
WileyJohn
on February 5, 2007 at 4:58 PM
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azur
thanks - and I keep it very busy! - too busy, lately, to post, just commenting. I find I need recovery time, and that varies.
posted by
mneme
on February 2, 2007 at 1:17 AM
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Yes,
Your mind is your own. He will think what he wants anyway
posted by
Azur
on January 31, 2007 at 5:44 PM
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joe love
got it in one - and speaking of metaphor... you may not have read something I posted earlier :
http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/mneme/s90
posted by
mneme
on January 30, 2007 at 10:58 PM
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mneme
Heeeeeeeeeey! I am allll that! I figured out the meaning of your poem (entered after this entry) BEFORE reading this entry!
posted by
Joe_Love
on January 30, 2007 at 8:56 PM
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johnmacnab
I read somewhere you remember as much after thirty years (or so) as you do after three..something about a "forgetting curve." BTW - I think the graffiti version is amo, amas, amatit again...
posted by
mneme
on January 29, 2007 at 1:54 AM
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Muser
I know.. there are always ways out, I just haven't found mine yet, and I haven't quite given myself permission to make the change. I have been torn every which way - sympathy for my husband (whose sympathy does not extend to wanting me to be happy unless it's with him); concern for my family - grown though they are; and being out of my home country for many years, the pain of which never goes away. I never worried about a "ME' - I was willing, even happy once I stopped full-time work, to look after my home and family, but I never agreed to live the rest of my life overseas, and certainly not once the relationship deteriorated. I so much appreciate your thoughts and support. I will get there.
posted by
mneme
on January 29, 2007 at 1:45 AM
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Taps
Thanks for the encouragement.
posted by
mneme
on January 29, 2007 at 1:26 AM
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Amo, Amas, Amant ....er....No I can't, and believe me I don't give a toss. I do wish I'd stuck in at my French though, but then I wasn't to know I would end up? in a bilingual country.
posted by
johnmacnab
on January 27, 2007 at 6:22 AM
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mneme, listen to me, darlin'...
I know what I'm talkin' about, girl...there is ALWAYS a way out. I left my beautiful home...all the stuff...to live in an attic apartment. I had three part-time jobs in addition to my full-time job...and I would do it again. I was losing myself trying every moment to be the woman someone else wanted me to be...living in that little attic apartment, I was free to be ME...and I realized I love being ME!
A litttle over a year later I met Max...who liked me for myself...he fell in love with ME...not an illusion of who I could be IF I would just...blah, blah, blah... I was over it , and I NEVER looked back!
posted by
muser
on January 27, 2007 at 12:14 AM
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mneme
You will make it girl. You will be different--again, but you will make it.
posted by
TAPS.
on January 26, 2007 at 9:36 AM
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johnmacnab
I get quite supportive comments from male readers, so I appreciate the thought. It's more a question of my seeming to be back in line - ie quiet. Except when I write.
Sorry to hear about your sister, I think a lot of this happens in families. Ironic that she doesn't know about it now, but you sound forgiving. I can't remember my Latin - can you? Won't lose any sleep over it though :)
posted by
mneme
on January 24, 2007 at 1:19 PM
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mneme
'back in my place and behaving?' There's a sentence that makes me shiver. Your talk about sisters had me reminiscing. At Christmas Ell answered the phone and it was my older sister - the one who disowned me because I remarried Ell. She wanted to know why I hadn't phoned as usual at Christmas, and asked me who Ell was.
Her husband says she can still remember her Latin but her short term memory has gone. As you say, mneme 'your mind belongs to you.'
posted by
johnmacnab
on January 24, 2007 at 4:50 AM
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