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bolton carley commented on Amanda Salisbury's blog post Denial"interesting title to go with the debate. i've always thought of myself as "people like us" in any situation so i guess we'll see. "
Amanda Salisbury commented on Amanda Salisbury's blog post I Wrote Words"Angela, I'm at the tail-end of doing exactly that. It's been an incredible process."
Angela commented on Amanda Salisbury's blog post I Wrote Words"This was thoughtful and thought-provoking. I hope you go back and add in what is missing."
Amanda Salisbury commented on Amanda Salisbury's blog post Red Sky in Morning"Thanks, Angela! That morning did dawn with red dirt swirling everyplace. I just extrapolated the image back some several decades. I cannot imagine surviving the wind and clay in a sod house or a plank house either one.
By the by, are you the…"
Angela commented on Amanda Salisbury's blog post Red Sky in Morning"This was beautifully put together. The initial image of the brutal earth and the sod bricks was so imaginative that I didn't catch for a moment what it was you were describing. Your twist on the old sailors' saying was fresh.…"
"Love this. Yeah, we gotta have a big mess of human beings to have a story. This cool priest I met once, Father Allendy (or Allender, can't remember) wrote a book called God Loves An Unmade Bed. It's about being human and…"
Amanda Salisbury commented on Teresa's blog post Building"The discussion has been an interesting insight into gender perceptions, at least among the people here. At the risk of agreeing with Crisman's expressed view from many, many moons ago...perception is not reality, (okay, now I'll stray) but…"
"This made me think of what Forrest Gump said at Jenny's graveside: "I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze. But I think maybe it's both. …"
Amanda Salisbury commented on Teresa's blog post Building"I wish more women/girls would raise this issue because it opens the conversation. Well done.
My initial reaction, however simple-minded: Not a single man would walk the earth without woman. I think the beautiful thing about today is that we…"
Ron. Lavalette commented on Amanda Salisbury's blog post Denial"As I was reading this, the neighbor's dog was chasing its own tail around in the kitchen. Good show."
Amanda Salisbury commented on Cita's blog post An Island Piece"I like the contained tension of this piece. It reminds me of something I wrote on a wall: Reel me back, tie me down, loose the hornets from my chest that I may melt into recomposition. Everyone need the hornets loosed from time to time."
Amanda Salisbury posted a blog postRed Sky in Morning
Consider the brutal earth spun through smooth plank walls, warring with the chinking between sod bricks. Sailors struggle with each breath, cursing the thick air and the force that takes all breath away. They stumble through the cresting fields and drive their horses into the tussle. Each ounce of water is nigh undrinkable, a wind-stirred cocktail of all the well has been and is today. Flesh stings with insult after insult as the wind batters through the best of woven cloth, and eyes reject…See More
Stephen Torelli commented on Amanda Salisbury's blog post Not as Shy"Welcome back Amanda and glad to see you. Nice photo."
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I Wrote Words
Posted on May 26, 2012 at 6:34pm 3 Comments 0 Favorites
I wrote words and peppered with punctuation, forming paragraphs and chapters and, finally, a book. No, not a book, but a collection of many pages of words that made sense together. Some might have graciously called it a story (only because they know no better); yet, I know that is like calling an encyclopeadic entry a story.
The following details were missing, though the list fails to be comprehensive: dirt, hate, love, purpose, division, reunion, rain. What I did have was a factual…
Continue Denial
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 9:10pm 3 Comments 0 Favorites
"Life doesn't happen that way, not for people like us."
"Oh, but life is transcendent and pays no attention to who we are, where we are, what we are."
"Don't be naive; of course it does."
"Life is arbitrary: a baby's heart will beat one day and and keep beating whether you feel it or record it or know it - how bizarrely unlikely!"
"You speak of life as an out-of-touch thing or, worse, a person, but life is a process, like a which-way book with every move directing…
Continue Red Sky in Morning
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 12:22pm 2 Comments 0 Favorites
Consider the brutal earth spun through smooth plank walls, warring with the chinking between sod bricks. Sailors struggle with each breath, cursing the thick air and the force that takes all breath away. They stumble through the cresting fields and drive their horses into the tussle. Each ounce of water is nigh undrinkable, a wind-stirred cocktail of all the well has been and is today. Flesh stings with insult after insult as the wind batters through the best of woven cloth, and eyes reject…
Continue Not as Shy
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 9:30pm 5 Comments 0 Favorites
I'm not as shy as I once was. I've only been absent from 6S since August, but oh-so-much has changed. When I came back a few days ago I used my name - not ShyJot Publications LLC but my real given and taken name - and there are even - gasp! - photographs of me on ye olde internet.
I'm returning to myself, filling in the space where post-personal-apocalypse Amanda (circa 2008-2012) dug in and held on for reasons unknowable to her at the time. For all the danger and fear and loathing…
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