I?ve been reading entirely too many blogs lately. When you take that initial step into this blogging thing, you never realize how much time it takes to actually get some people to read the crap you dare to write.
Go Kim.
Mar 162009
People who live in bushfire areas do well to collect their photos, birth certificates and anything else portable and precious and remove the lot to a safe place over summer. One of the items in my own stash is a suitcase full of letters, theatre programs, bits and bobs from childhood and youth, and some from my daughters’ childhood, lugged around over many years from house to house and country to country, taken for granted, never – until last night – never re-read.
Listening to the way people talked about their losses in February’s fires – that and our own narrow escape – led me to open the suitcase. Carpe diem, I suppose.
The first envelope I pulled out contained a series of letters from my first love. I spent hours in a reverie, musing over people and events from the better part of fifty years ago. Anyone my age can fill in the emotions, and some are very painful. All the same, this is a case of treasure.
All the rhetoric about Kinglake and Marysville turns on hope and the promise of a future and so it should. But it is terrible to think of the suitcases burning, the photographs and letters and the postcards and the childrens’ drawings.
Mar 152009
‘Cheever: A Life’
By BLAKE BAILEY
Reviewed by GEOFFREY WOLFF
This stunningly detailed biography explores John Cheever’s
crooked path step by stumbling step, disclosing the
addictive urges and bawling self-pity to which he subjected
himself and those in his household.
_ NYT
Mar 142009
There is a blog called Time Goes By. It has a long link of links to older bloggers. Here are a few samples of their work. The first, which sets the tone for the rest, is by way of a poem.
Random memories,
yours and mine,
pulled one by one
from velvet sacks
and laid on the table
of our common awareness,
connect,
gain strength and structure,
build a bridge
from then to now.
I promised not to say anything too sappy, but my baby boy is 35 today!! He really is a great guy and I’m very proud of him. Here is a look back at some of the early years. Note the “thumbs up” in his little race car photo. And he used to cry when anyone sang “happy birthday”, so that’s what he is doing in the birthday photo. Yes, I made his blue suit. Sorry, buddy!
In other news, hubby has to go and see the dermatologist on the 22nd May. Our GP thinks it might be a skin cancer spot. God I so hope not, even though I know skin cancer is very curable, I am worried about it. Fingers crossed.
Charlie the Service Dog has been paired with a young autistic boy named Tim. Read the sweet story about the tiny miracle that happened at their house.
Mar 142009
You will recall that an exact phrase search “blogs by older men” turned up nothing interesting, unless what interests you is prostate cancer. “Blogs by older women” begins more promisingly.
There are so many creative blogs, wise blogs, beautiful blogs, funny blogs, informative and stimulating blogs. Blogs by young ladies with a depth and wisdom beyond their years. Blogs by older women who have great experience, insight, and wisdom. I honestly wouldn’t know where to start in handing out awards.
Gee whillikers, Susan, with all those adorable children and grandchildren, how do you find the time? Hey, how do you find the blogs? Continue reading »
Mar 132009
According to reprinted pieces in the Australian mainstream press, the Israel lobby (a) once more showed how all-powerful it is by (b) scotching an Obama appointee, Charles Freeman. Neither (a) nor (b) is true.