tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37627577.post4226911812098948563..comments2024-02-12T16:32:03.714-08:00Comments on Book of Kells: The Meaning of Life is Apple Brown Betty...Kelli Russell Agodon - Book of Kellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01798460634708905783noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37627577.post-73929573160125519982007-09-30T08:59:00.000-07:002007-09-30T08:59:00.000-07:00Thanks everyone.Lyle- I do agree that much of my w...Thanks everyone.<BR/><BR/>Lyle- I do agree that much of my writing comes from that same inner source.<BR/><BR/>Pamela - I tend to think I'd feel the same way.<BR/><BR/>Robert- yes, too funny about the poem and the I'm quitting writing post right next to it. thanks for pointing that out.<BR/><BR/>Thanks, Michi. Good to read.<BR/><BR/>best, <BR/>kKelli Russell Agodon - Book of Kellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01798460634708905783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37627577.post-62504164276274349932007-09-29T08:36:00.000-07:002007-09-29T08:36:00.000-07:00kelli, i enjoy reading your musings, and especiall...kelli, i enjoy reading your musings, and especially enjoyed reading this "vulnerable kelli" post. <BR/><BR/>i don't think i could give up writing. it might give up on me, or desert me, but for me to make that decision ... no. it's like what i often say about english - the language seems to have chosen me, rather than the other way round. and this medium seems to have chosen me as well. and though it might be tough at times, or the muse be silent for months, i know it is too much a part of me, and it'd be like cutting off some limb just because it feels a little sore for a day or two. <BR/><BR/>mmichihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06477831910779342533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37627577.post-14213262549719035812007-09-28T07:09:00.000-07:002007-09-28T07:09:00.000-07:00I can't help noticing the interesting juxtapositio...I can't help noticing the interesting juxtaposition between this post and the poem by Jane Hirshfield right below it. It almost sounds like you answered your question before you asked it:<BR/><BR/>Let one or two she loves / be in the next room. Let the door / be closed, the sleeping ones healthy. / Let her have time, and silence, / enough paper to make mistakes and go on.Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13471547669854013234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37627577.post-44857339205819302162007-09-27T13:21:00.000-07:002007-09-27T13:21:00.000-07:00I gave up writing (and teaching) for over a decade...I gave up writing (and teaching) for over a decade--miserable, even worse than writers' block.Pamela Johnson Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06637447850820805268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37627577.post-73721888771833263112007-09-27T10:22:00.000-07:002007-09-27T10:22:00.000-07:00Trying to give up writing for me is like trying to...Trying to give up writing for me is like trying to give up loving. It ain't going to happen, so why not just enjoy the ride....and lately it's been kinda bumpy!Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06602358126864479992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37627577.post-18787619520703095492007-09-26T18:18:00.000-07:002007-09-26T18:18:00.000-07:00Many years ago I sort of decided once to stop writ...Many years ago I sort of decided once to stop writing poems, and that lasted maybe two weeks. Not really even that long, since I actually kept writing, just pretending I wasn't writing poems, that I was only writing something that resembled poems on the page.<BR/><BR/>There was a period of three or four years (late 1970's to about 1980 or 1981) when I wasn't doing much public with poems, though I was still writing.<BR/><BR/>I've found, for me, it takes a kind of discipline to wait out the times when the muse feels silent, or speaks only in broken syllables and odd images. I had to teach myself just to wait for the dry period to pass, that it would rain again if I was patient and waited.<BR/><BR/>There will be times, after long silence, when I feel a subtle gradual irritable feeling, a kind of restlessness, not huge or severe but it won't settle down. By now I've come to understand that it usually means a poem is getting near the surface.<BR/><BR/>I can't speak for you, of course, but my instinct is that the anxiety and nervousness you speak of is not caused by writing, but may be connected in one way or another to the inner sources, the places writing comes from.<BR/><BR/>I liked thinking about this. Thanks for posting this.Lyle Daggetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10731915540520704368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37627577.post-24304918714408435302007-09-26T14:49:00.000-07:002007-09-26T14:49:00.000-07:00Valerie-- I hear you. I think it would be the sam...Valerie-- I hear you. I think it would be the same for me.<BR/><BR/>Heather-- thanks. It's good to be with writer friends.<BR/><BR/>Cheryl-- Ah! That almost made me tear up. Thank you.<BR/><BR/><BR/>thank you all for your notes. It always nice when I post something like a little vulnerable, that there's not an echo or the sound of crickets. I appreciate you for dropping by.<BR/><BR/>best, <BR/>KKelli Russell Agodon - Book of Kellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01798460634708905783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37627577.post-79143152495261932622007-09-26T14:38:00.000-07:002007-09-26T14:38:00.000-07:00You never know how much good your words do in the ...You never know how much good your words do in the world. When I need courage, my husband reminds me that God sets us in boats and pushes us on to the lake of perspective. Sound familiar?Cheryl Snellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00282790491003471641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37627577.post-33678264011486976302007-09-26T14:19:00.000-07:002007-09-26T14:19:00.000-07:00Oh boy, can I relate to this! Well said -- and you...Oh boy, can I relate to this! <BR/><BR/>Well said -- and you are not alone. ;o)Heatherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14622264183976650072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37627577.post-15815348064841039552007-09-26T11:22:00.000-07:002007-09-26T11:22:00.000-07:00I tried to give up writing once--it was the worst ...I tried to give up writing once--it was the worst year of my life.Valerie Lovelandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11309299429765944601noreply@blogger.com