tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post3040353495772309892..comments2024-01-01T20:33:52.554-08:00Comments on a moon, worn as if it had been a shell: Sunday ThoughtsElizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03313726816776097840noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-52588039005213126892015-03-02T11:45:36.388-08:002015-03-02T11:45:36.388-08:00Janie B - It's weird to realize as you get old...Janie B - It's weird to realize as you get older how difficult it is to be truly vulnerable and how much we've built up that "armor" over the years through so much experience. Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03313726816776097840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-49508608132698765062015-03-02T11:44:36.346-08:002015-03-02T11:44:36.346-08:00Marylinn -- That is so exactly true. Thank you.Marylinn -- That is so exactly true. Thank you.Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03313726816776097840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-32317128293025368132015-03-02T11:44:07.330-08:002015-03-02T11:44:07.330-08:00I liked that idea, too, Steve. I feel like I'v...I liked that idea, too, Steve. I feel like I've achieved a bit of it with some issues that have plagued me over the years, and I know that I have much more travel to do in others!Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03313726816776097840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-28212161549445460532015-03-02T11:43:16.161-08:002015-03-02T11:43:16.161-08:00I believe your soulful connection to the daily lif...I believe your soulful connection to the daily life tasks you engage in -- the cooking, the chickens, the caregiving, the children and grandchildren, your ministering to all those people, your relationship to the natural world around you and then, of course, your incredible ability to articulate all of that in your writing -- well that's supreme "grounding," no?Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03313726816776097840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-15090960373528267132015-03-02T11:42:00.193-08:002015-03-02T11:42:00.193-08:00lily cedar -- Interesting thoughts. They remind me...lily cedar -- Interesting thoughts. They remind me of an incredible article I read in The New Yorker some time ago about a soldier seeking atonement for some deaths he'd been responsible for in Iraq. I think the title was "Atonement" -- he found the family who he had affected living now in Glendale, CA, and when he sought their forgiveness, he was forgiven. It was amazing and worth looking up.Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03313726816776097840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-51394804921262494352015-03-02T11:39:35.777-08:002015-03-02T11:39:35.777-08:00Vulnerability is hard...is that because because wh...Vulnerability is hard...is that because because who knows where a crack in the armor might lead?<br /><br />Janie BAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-36200783798046150612015-03-02T08:36:42.581-08:002015-03-02T08:36:42.581-08:00I think all aspects of aliveness come and go and g...I think all aspects of aliveness come and go and get mixed up. Perhaps in grief they are more visible. Doesn't it keep coming back to stories, all our stories, that we lived/live them, retell them, examine them, treasure and embrace them, not for being exclusively happy but for being ours. There is such balm in the voices and words of our oldest friends. That we also get to be that for them is, I imagine, what ties any of us to this world. xoMarylinn Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02759437467691163658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-62213428949630899112015-03-02T06:36:17.963-08:002015-03-02T06:36:17.963-08:00I like the idea of anger as a journey with a purpo...I like the idea of anger as a journey with a purpose. I haven't yet read that op-ed -- thanks for pointing it out!Steve Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11684120060438252945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-88824516601294263842015-03-01T13:01:46.294-08:002015-03-01T13:01:46.294-08:00I, too, believe I go through all of those emotions...I, too, believe I go through all of those emotions, sometimes within moments of each other. <br />When do I get to grounding?<br />Maybe I have that too and just don't pay attention. <br />I am so glad you got to talk to your friend. Such talks restore our souls. Ms. Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09776404747858099919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-66176738600076099392015-03-01T12:52:11.535-08:002015-03-01T12:52:11.535-08:00I read that article by Timothy Kudo. Powerful and...I read that article by Timothy Kudo. Powerful and awful and true sadly. What he didn't mention is the burden he must carry with him the rest of his life, the burden of those lives he took or ordered taken. My father died fifty-five years after the second world war ended and still he carried those lives that he took with him. They haunted him until the end of his life. It's a heavy price to ask others to pay. <br /><br />I have no easy answers. If someone was to endanger my children, I would kill I'm sure. We are all humans, good and bad, kind and cruel, enlightened and not. There are no easy answers.My life so farhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16721270441968035994noreply@blogger.com