Letters to the Editor
SantoGuerreira
Published Letters: 23 Editor's Choice: 1
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The lost, the found, and the self-loathing
[Read the article: Lost and found]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yikes! I have to side with Emily on this one. Her Mark Twain quote was on point. I have frequently traveled around the world on a shoestring since I was 19. I am now 51 and just got back from Brazil. Travel is a wonderful way to open a closed and bitter mind. I had not thought about getting this book until now. I think I'll use that Barnes and Noble gift certificate from Christmas...
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I Enjoy Men.....
[Read the article: I enjoy men until we get to the bedroom]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]O.k. Anonymous-I'll bite-despite sounding salacious..
I do agree this woman could explore stepping outside of her culture, assuming she is a N. American. I would suggest some salsa classes or better yet-samba. Brazilian men can be warm and attentive lovers. The rate of age acquired obesity is much less there then in the States. I have been married to one for 9 years and can personally attest to some great memories of sweetness both above and below the sheets.
She may be a Renaissance (sp?) Woman whose needs are yet to be matched with someone in her culture. There lies the conflict...I know I knocked around the planet for a few years until I came to that realization.
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Confessions......
[Read the article: Confessions of a utility actor]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Birkenhead nailed it. I also had a less than stellar career back in the late 80's as a commercial actress. When you are the "Return A Face Cream" girl it can't get much lower. It was only a regional muffler commercial that played forever(ka ching!)
in the my home state in the Midwest that convinced my parent's neighbors that I won't show up on a video box with the letter X.
Keep up the interesting first person Live stories. I am tired of all the political bad news that saturates the media these days..
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France or Bust
[Read the article: For some reason I feel I must move to France]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Feelin a bit lazy on a Friday(and unwilling to read other letter/blogs) I can recommend a nice little book called The Adult Guide to Running Away From Home". Title may not be exact as my copy just arrived from Powell's Used Books.
Here's a nice little snippet of a poem from Leonard Cohen:
Now...
I understand why many men have stopped
and wept
Halfway between the loves they leave
and seek
and wonder if travel leads them
anywhere
The horizons keep the soft line of your cheek
THe windy sky's a locket for your hair
S.G.
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Fear of Jong
[Read the article: No fear]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Erica Jong made it o.k. to embrace sensuality during a pretty contentious time between
the sexes in this country. The idea of a woman exercising a rather robust sexuality will always be a cause of discomfort in the U.S. I was living in Europe when "Fear of Flying" came out. When I returned to the States I witness a total different reaction.
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School also "happens in a vacuum"
[Read the article: Therapy seems to happen in a vacuum]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Excellent advice from the Cary Man. From viewing these letters the idea of therapy is certainly a hot botton, like Religion or Politics! When I worked in the mental health field a wise psychiatrist once told me that in his experience it take about 5 years after intense therapy for all the emotional changes to come to fruition. Living in the cocoon of academia argubly provides limited opportunities. I have to disagree re: resorting to psychotropic medications. (now her I am standing on the Hot Botton) The side effects can range from a subtle emotional numbing to the inabilily to go off then permanently-esp if you would like to have normal sexual arousal or bear a child.
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Lost Weekends and lonely friends
[Read the article: Whenever he comes by for an evening, it takes him days to leave]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Cary was on spot on this one-although I didn't feel the friend was nursing any familial injuries or a substance addiction. He is probably lonely. He also might be saving money for the downpayment on a house and not p***ing it away on rent like most of us did. If he is fun to be with, so what?
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..and baby makes 4
[Read the article: "In America, seduction is dishonest"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I thought his observation re: the morbidly obese as regressing to infancy as brilliant. Now I know why the coworker in the next cubicle resorts to baby language when stressed.
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The Antidote?
[Read the article: I've had it!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Despite my temptation to joint this rant-o-rama(I live/drive in S. Florida where people will go out of their way to be mean to strangers) I can only share my solace: at least monthly I re-read the book "The Four Agreements" by Don Miguel Ruiz. Best advise from the book? Don't take anything personally. Nothing anybody, does, be it stranger or intimate, is because of us.
And no, I did not have crunchy granola for breakfast....
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Coulter Counter
[Read the article: Ann Coulter, a profile in courage]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have always said that with Ann Coulter, the Rupublican party has finally gotten it's Abbey Hoffmann. I think most of her beloved Rupublicans abandoned her when she lionized Joe McCarthy in her last book then commmented on the fleshiness("corn fed") of the attendees at one of the last Presidential conventions. On television she presents as brittle, insecure, and drug impaired. I only pity her publicist ...who would want to book her now on the talk show circuit? Her last comment was beyond the pale.
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Lower City/higher love?
[Read the article: Beyond the Multiplex]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It feels odd commenting on this lovely film while I am in Salvador, Bahia.
I was fortunate to see it at the past Miami film festival. The director and Braga were also there. The lovemaking is rather robust-which made the N. American audience visibly squirm in their seats-mostly because there was some real passion there-not some silcone inflated porn star looking bored. But this is only a small part of the story. As the director pointed out it is really about their love-and that it is possible to feel deeply towards more than one person at the same time. Not a sentiment that is embraced in N. American with our Puritan values and sitcom flavored society.
I would highly recommend this film to anyone who has felt a deep loyalty and love for two people at the same time.
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So True!
[Read the article: Touched for the very first time]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks, Tobbar for putting to screen what I was thinking.
I thought the article was hilarious and right on target. The part about humping anything she could get her legs around -what a visual.
Great writing. Reminds me of Citra Wilson.