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ZuZu - 2006-01-22 15:41:21
Grief begets grief. When we experience it, it's not just the person who we have recently lost that we are grieving - it's every grief recalled to the moment. So grief, I think, has this way of growing large as it accumulates. Hmm.. I'll save the rest for a more private venue.. my thoughts are with you as you coddle these tender feelings toward healing. - Zu
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boann7 - 2006-01-22 15:45:15
Lots of hugs for you. its coffee smell that brings up memories of my grandmother... the smell of a certain pipe smoke for my grandfather..The sound of the word "delicious" for my papaw, he always used to say that word about everything he loved. Grief rises up from the most innocent thoughts maybe its just the simple purity of them.
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ZuZu - 2006-01-22 15:52:13
Oh.. the two Post Secrets are actually one - I think they scanned the front and back of that postcard. The text starts on the first one and continues on to the second. "end of the gifts" I think means the end of new/more poems from the dead poet. I think the gender bending stuff is interesting... but/and I think it says more about the reader's ideas of gender roles. What is it about your writing that makes people think you're a woman? What is it about my writing that makes people think I'm a man? I don't find it "offensive" necessarily - except when someone thinks I'm a man because I'm "smart" (as though women just aren't smart.. so, you know, what they perceive as smart they also perceive as male. Now I'm not saying I'm smart - it's not about what I think.. you know?) And It's curious that one reader not only thought I was a man, but a gay man in particular. Don't you think that's awfully specific?
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ZuZu - 2006-01-22 18:17:53
I love that your students call you Mrs! Do you ever correct them and say, "I'm not married."? Or do you wear a ring that might mislead them? A woman, among my closest, most bestest friends sometimes of my thinking that I'm very "boy-like" - I think she means that I'm a thinker as opposed to feeler on the meyers-briggs scale - and people do often equate thinking with men and feeling with women. Maybe that's the gender confusion in your writing - it's often very heart-based and soulful. I'm trying to ponder whether or not I have deeper connections with women or men. I can honestly say that I have deep connections with both women and men - biologic sex doesn't seem to be a determinant in my ability to connect.
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Zuzu - 2006-01-22 20:57:05
I'm an INTP. I=introvert (vs. E=extrovert); N=intuitive (vs. S=senser e.g. likes rules/directions); T=thinker (vs. F=feeler); P=perceiver (vs. J= judger e.g. shades of grey (perceiver) vs. black and white (judger).) I bet you're a "p" from your writing.. but there might be a "j" hiding in your psyche that doesn't come out so much in your writing.
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Jonathan - 2006-01-23 02:48:17
I lvoe cooking but have never made meatloaf - I'll give it a go today. Any suggestions!?
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Pfirsich - 2006-01-23 07:07:11
Hey ZuZu,can you please NOT!!!!!!! say I�ve offended you,that leaves me in UTTER SHOCK,OKAY??????????????? I mean,I love women more than men,if you might have noticed!!!!! Cause I find men are boring. They are so predictable,just like me.I guess THAT�s what I meant with the whole men woman stuff.----Of course,maybe you know different men than I.But I thought they were predictable,up to the point of excrutiatingly deadly boring!!-------Do you even like me? You say I�ve offended you and I die! Like,in general,too,I�m so scared of you sometimes! In the sense as if I had done something wrong,you know? Have I don�t something wrong? I�m getting curious!!!That is the total shocker when you say I have offended you or when you didn�t like something I have said,you know!---I feel like in the same situation when Mike had offended Coral,when he said that thing about some blacks being uneducated.So,do you think I have said something wrong? I�m getting curious here!
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madrigle - 2006-01-23 09:23:21
Um, why are you leaving notes to Zuzu in my diary, Pfirsich?
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Pfirsich - 2006-01-23 11:45:48
Madrigle,you can�t critizise me either!!!!!!!!!!!!Don�t you guys know I�m vulnerable like a leaf!!!!!!! (Do you say it like that?)
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