Posted by malthus on August 27, 2004, at 19:25:04
In reply to Re: Acrimony » malthus, posted by Atticus on August 27, 2004, at 9:20:10
I want to thank you, first for making me feel at home here and not like an unbidden guest! I also want to thank you for increasing my vocabulary.
I've always thought I was pretty adept with vocabulary but I find myself reaching for the dictionary and looking up words I don't know in your posts (this was my favorite activity in the 6th grade, ~~looking up words Mr. Francis gave us and writing the definitions
on my favorite lined pink notebook paper.) Somehow it was comforting due to the school environment being distressing~~I, along with my friends, were the guinea pigs for the first wave of the integration movement in the seventies, enduring long busrides to the bowels of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Boy did I learn things (not limited to academics) there that a 12 year old should not learn so early. That experience has profoundly shaped my mental landscape. Anyway I wanted to share some of the words I have written down from your posts (now on a yellow legal pad~~where have all the pastels gone, long time passing):
"doppelganger", "Atlantean", "metier" etc.Secondly I'd like to thank you for always responding to my poetry. Your posts buoy me and I don't feel so alone with some of the agony I experience. While I don't want either of us to feel agony, I realize that writing is a pivotal part of moving on. I certainly don't wish to tote and lug all this into my next relationship (if I ever have one; I'm a bit pessimistic that I will.) Trees with their roots can be moved and prosper in new soil in a far away place. My Dad moved some of his mother's iris bulbs from Quantico, Virginia to Arkansas before she died. He just moved to Charlottesville, Virgina and brought the bulbs with him and has planted them in his front yard where they are flourishing once again. I want to flourish, I want you to flourish and I look forward to our communication.
malthus, the forsaken
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