Agreed, Amy.
Does anybody mind if I pass out?
Willow ,'Beneath You'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
erikaj - Aug 29, 2023 11:22:04 am PDT #24596 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
amyparker - Aug 29, 2023 11:48:51 am PDT #24597 of 30000
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
Yes, this.
NoiseDesign - Aug 29, 2023 11:50:38 am PDT #24598 of 30000
Our wings are not tired
David, you are constantly in my thoughts. Know that we hold you close, not just now, but will continue to do so in the years to come. You have always been so generous with your kindness here, as has JZ. You have held so many of us up. Now we hold you up.
-t - Aug 29, 2023 11:51:20 am PDT #24599 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Aw, making me a little weepy at work
That this tapestry will be cut from the loom and the ends tied off and it will no longer be in the making but a finished thing.
This is so lovely. A thing that comforts me that I typically think is too weird to tell people about is that if I take the physics concept of the space-time continuum as literally representing reality the past is not just something we remember but actually existing (outside time, so while I like to use the word "still" in my head it doe4s not really apply but something like that) we just can't get there any more. And not being able to get there can hurt, but thinking it is "out there" makes me feel better. Which is all to say that "worry" is not exactly what I'm doing when I think of you (and I do pretty often these days), David, but "not worried" doesn't describe it either.
amyparker - Aug 29, 2023 11:51:21 am PDT #24600 of 30000
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
Beverly - Aug 29, 2023 11:51:49 am PDT #24601 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Now we hold you up.
"Our arms are not tired."
Atropa - Aug 29, 2023 11:59:37 am PDT #24602 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
That this tapestry will be cut from the loom and the ends tied off and it will no longer be in the making but a finished thing.
This is so beautiful.
David, of course we're all worried about you. Even tho' you are handling this with so much strength and grace, there will be limits. Which is where your community can help, even if it's just sending you messages of support.
beekaytee - Aug 29, 2023 12:25:15 pm PDT #24603 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
beekaytee, it's Stan Freberg's "John and Marsha".
Yes! And, I want to say it was Orson Bean who said the thing about coming back 10 years later and the characters are in the exact same place.
I had such a huge crush on Stan Freberg, back in the day. Such a quick mind...and interesting business instincts!
beekaytee - Aug 29, 2023 12:28:33 pm PDT #24604 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
That this tapestry will be cut from the loom and the ends tied off and it will no longer be in the making but a finished thing.
Weirdly, I was just talking to someone this morning about using the metaphor of a tapestry to represent our personal and ancestral history. I want to think that the tapestry is constant...the loom, universal...and new experiences/eras are simply woven into the whole.
flea - Aug 29, 2023 12:56:43 pm PDT #24605 of 30000
information libertarian
Well in my memory it was weasels not twins and an ice floe not a magma field but I recalled the spirit of that quote perfectly!