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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
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Published Letters: 40 Editor's Choice: 3
Sometimes I want to find the words to request advice here just so I can reap the brilliant replies. Surely there's a better self for me on the other side.
I think Cary is that much needed cool fresh air, offering the non-linear approach
as good advices. I loved this response today--I think this is why I learned to read.
To the guy with the problem....keep sifting, you are also the solution.
It's best if you don't believe there's a med you can swallow for relief of every ail or a sage to consult over every grievance. Be alive & boring & anxious for awhile. There will be something else soon enough. Every now & then it's inattention that gains us that next step.
the president who respects no one, his office which shames us all?
Waaaaaahhhhh----that Stephen Colbert is just too smart.
Smite him, my minions.
the comments don't jump into your eyes & mind uninvited.
if it's so difficult & hurtful for you, why not skip the pain?
oh wait, were you being ironic?
Maybe for punishment the editors will insist Anne read every single letter here slowly & solemnly aloud without
a single sip of water. Would that fix everything?
She is one funny, down to earth woman being as richly present in life as possible for her, with a gift for sharing her
perspective like the witty friend you sometimes wish would please talk about something else, but she won't just yet
because she has stuff to work through & if you'll hold on a second she'll get to the funny part where she is so human
& fallible & trying to like herself anyway & coming up short so many times & she is blessed enough to be different
from most of us in that she receives pay for writing about it.
I am betting she knows about this blessing.
I just wanted to climb on board here as someone who has a vast appetite for reading---different things for
different reasons & say that I am sure there is a fine reason for Anne Lamott's writing
& fine reason for this comment feature on Salon.
I don't know what those reasons are, but I celebrate all these words if they make thoughts happen & not
just judgments. Keeps me curious anyway.
Ah Cary....
What a brilliant bit of advice that was. I can't imagine anything your rogue gallery can contribute to it, but I will check it out.
To the lady of the lost ring---do stop wearing the cheap substitute, maybe even include the "loss" of the "fake" in some ritual involving water--the toilet comes to mind. But whatever the issue the fiance's having regarding the original & its accidental loss must be addressed before the marriage, I wholeheartedly agree....this is important & will be interesting discovery for you. Good Luck to you.
Cary, the muse of myth & poetry was on your shoulder this day.
....for spirits like Natalie Jeremijenko's, for her way of seeing and her approach to sharing that with the rest of us. The comments about avian flu were fascinating, like something we have known intuitively finally endowed with credible words.
Hudson River fish on anti-depressants, mute swans in Europe (are there any left?)
and the responsible children in all of us have been given some rich positive energy.
Thank you Salon for this article. It has given me a lift this morning and that hasn't happened in a long while.
Years ago when my daughter was a toddler I always had my numerous rolls processed by Eckerd because of the quality & the discounts. One day I picked up my prints and there were about half a dozen prints that did not belong to me.
These were not in any way risque but they were clearly not mine. I asked the clerk if that was a thing that occurred often & she answered that "with the volume they dealt with it was bound to happen occasionally", adding that there was no way to really know since most people wouldn't attempt to return them as Eckerd had no way of knowing who they really belonged to once they were separated from their order. The idea of someone else having possession of photographs of my child just unhinged me for a while & I just stopped using my camera. Finally, this did strike me as most neurotic behavior, though
I still find it unsettling that privacy can be compromised so routinely.
What the families in this story endured was hell with a price tag of protection.
The type of scrutiny applied to their lives seems downright unconstitutional and I assume others will also react with rage & horror at the cost of that helpful employees good deed.
Thanks for that. The headline was so appropriate.
And I thought all of us here in the US had ample reason to be depressed
over the Bush-eating-roll incident. My God.
Brilliant writing, perhaps better journalism for the way it all turned out...
but bitterly, almost unbearably sad--like attending an evening in hell's own nightclub & coming home to articulate it.
Thanks, Sidney, as always for your clear-eyed sanity.
Thanks to you posters here who remind me that for all the finger pointing, blame-mongering, there are still intelligent beings here on earth.
Thanks especially to AJ Calhoun for your way with words.
I humbly share in your prayer.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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