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maj, I think that I will only feel a little better during the second term
of the next Democratic president's reign. Sigh........
posted by
benzinha
on November 11, 2004 at 12:44 PM
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the -loanlady, great memories there!! When my children sit and tell each
other stories about their youth and my mothering, I feel like I'm sitting in a comedy club and we are all laughing our heads off, though the actual experiences at the time they were happening didn't seem so amusing. Thanks for your comments and story.
posted by
benzinha
on November 11, 2004 at 12:43 PM
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attax, I guess that you'd have to read Forester's entire essay to
understand, and I don't imagine that you will, but that's okay, I did it for you. Thanks for commenting.
posted by
benzinha
on November 11, 2004 at 12:39 PM
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Hey, Ashcroft quit. Better?
I hope he has a good retirement. I hope they all have a good retirement. The sooner the better for some.
posted by
majroj
on November 9, 2004 at 9:15 PM
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Please do not let the blue pull you down.
Your comment below about you mother saying things didn't happen is so true. My Mom says that went all of us are together telling stories about our past. Recently I was teasing my older sister about climbing out the window at night, which she did all the time. Mom still refused to believe when my sister easily admitted what we all remembered. Maybe she only wants to recall the good stories?
posted by
the-loanlady
on November 9, 2004 at 12:56 PM
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believe
This is all very confusing. Glad we're not you!
posted by
attax
on November 9, 2004 at 12:52 PM
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Abuleita
Aw stop feeling blue, immediately. Got that?
Wonderful post this, as usual luv. I too read wonderful messages like this from the past, as in my Marcus Aurelius and such. Prayin' for ya luv, do buck up and smell the roses won't you?
posted by
WileyJohn
on November 8, 2004 at 10:49 PM
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maj, that's what my dad used to say at my parties as he flipped on the
lights in the main room, "Circulate, circulate!!!"
posted by
benzinha
on November 8, 2004 at 9:49 PM
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We once were a country of emigrants...I guess we still are.
I meant "imigrants". Now we don't so much "emigrate" and "circulate".
posted by
majroj
on November 8, 2004 at 8:24 PM
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maj, I know. Whenever I speak about my youth, my mom says, "That
never happened." We never agree and either I was really exaggerating so much that I believed and still believe youthful lies that I told to myself or she wasn't paying attention and didn't see the truth of it. We shall never agree about what those times were 'like', so we have a truce. She calls me the storyteller and I call her demented mom.
Other than that, each person tells the story as they see and feel it and no one will agree that it was quite like the other's memory of it.
A fellow at my sister's daycare today was speaking of Bush's 'mandate' and his 'majority win' and I was saying that receiving a little over half the nation's vote was no mandate and no majority and we couldn't agree on word definitions. We never shall. He's a cutie though and I would have chased him home in my youth, no matter how he'd voted. He's a lovely Russian immigrant and immigrants are so very enthusiastic about Democracy and voting and 'mandates'. Sigh......
posted by
benzinha
on November 8, 2004 at 6:43 PM
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WE never know what other people's live are truly like, especially authors'.
We hardly can agree from year to year "what" our own lives are "like".
posted by
majroj
on November 8, 2004 at 5:57 AM
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maj, pessimists kill themselves at Ground Zero and let the monkeys win.
This fellow's recent suicide makes me remember all the Buddhist priests who set themselves on fire in Viet Nam; their very powerful personal statements which didn't stop the war from happening anyway.
Like Shirley Temple sang, "Be optimistic, don't you be a grumpy, when the road gets bumpy, just smile, smile and be happy. No trouble can be as bad as all that, when you're sad as all that, no one loves you...." which was a cruel statement, that of being unloved if you're sad, but quite possibly true if it drags out a long time.....who knows?
I'm optimistic. I wonder if consumption of anti-depressants will rise because of the latest elections? Or, other drug use, drinking?
Life, it's never easy, just another night of homework and planning contingencies.
posted by
benzinha
on November 7, 2004 at 10:35 PM
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ca88andra, yes!! E.F. Forester also wrote Passage to India, Howard's End,
Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey and Room with a View.
My book says that his lecture, Aspects of the Novel, 1927, is "delightful,....and one of the wisest and best-balanced critical studies of the novel, with which every student of literature should be familiar. You might look for it somewhere!!! I really like his essays because you can see him soul searching as he writes.
Thanks for stopping by. We all should try to write more like him, for the centuries to remember.
posted by
benzinha
on November 7, 2004 at 10:25 PM
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EF was an optimist. I like optimists.
posted by
majroj
on November 7, 2004 at 8:35 PM
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benzinha - great words and writing tend to have an impact no matter their age. I would that I could be such a writer...
posted by
Ca88andra
on November 7, 2004 at 8:02 PM
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bb, like minds meeting and amen and all that. Thanks.
posted by
benzinha
on November 7, 2004 at 2:49 PM
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Some of those who yell the loudest ..................
in support of treating great swathes of humanity as if they were identical would miss it most were they to lose the right to individuality. It is possible to mix tolerance, good temper and sympathy with firm opinions but these days these traits are cast as weakness in spite of the fact that underneath it the very people who say it is weakness really only crave the same courtesy and respect. They have forgotten they must give that to receive it.
posted by
beachbelle
on November 7, 2004 at 2:01 PM
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