From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">rennielorca</a><BR>
Date: 21 September 2006<P>

aparajita~sorry for the extended absence. Just got a chance to read the board and haven't gotten to the new subs for too long this time. Putting in long hours to make up for time dealing with mom and Capt in hospitals. Both are better now. Will spend some time with b.k. this weekend--hopefully. Would be great to see you if you can come this direction. Should have had some time to help move our new dixie chick in down in Hotlanta, but responsibilities here have really kept me busy since I've gotten back home. I see lots of action on the board with some great crits. I'm looking forward to reading the new subs, but I'm going to sleep at the keyboard tonight ...... Rennie 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1762">no white flag</a><BR>
Date: 21 September 2006<P>

lovewhispers, about <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2006.09.19.13.18.6967">The Path to Alone</a>:<BR>
Too many people take and take,soak up all the love and friendship they are given,thinking it will never end.<BR>
Forget all the good,evryday given,,not with wanting,needing something in return,Its a good thing<BR>
because there is nothing,no sweet card just because they care,no email with a poem that reminds them of you.So quick too judge,,maybe wishing for one more day with who they have lost.If that could happen,,what would they do?Probably be the same,,be sorry for how they have misstreated a "friend"not wonder how they cold doubt a friend and next day wonder..why alone again.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1762">no white flag</a><BR>
Date: 21 September 2006<P>

Hi everyone..I am enjoying much of your works.I love the comment page too.. I esspecialy liked this line <BR>
"i've shown that naked pain to someone unworthy and not sure if i'll ever reveal it again" it was written as part of a comment on anothers work. It hit home with me.<BR>
If you read my entry.<BR>
. friends,<BR>
,,so.if you think<BR>
this ones too you<BR>
might be,,but,<BR>
you are one of,,,,,,,<BR>
a few..<BR>
Hopefully,I will learn....<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=66">willtobe1</a><BR>
Date: 21 September 2006<P>

Aparajita~<BR>
<BR>
You are exactly right -- the poetry of that piece lies in our recollection of the incredible tenderness in Forrest's voice when he says, <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2006.09.19.16.37.8629">"But you were, Jenny" </a>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=872">cryingshame58</a><BR>
Date: 21 September 2006<P>

Aparajita & willtobe1, about <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2006.09.19.16.37.8629">"But you were, Jenny" </a>: The thing about Forrest is how we all reach for the clear and simple that Forrest possesses...he's far from intelligent, but oh so wise to accept life's harsh truths only to find beauty in the present. the beauty in Forrest's truth with Jenny is that Forrest's capacity of love is pure. similar to the same kind of deep love in Tom Hanks' role in Cast Away...True Love's beauty endures time and space...<BR>
CS%*<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=66">willtobe1</a><BR>
Date: 21 September 2006<P>

Sarah143, about <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2006.09.18.16.20.2294">Making Love</a>:<BR>
<BR>
How precious and huge are the many paradoxes of Love!<BR>
<BR>
For example:<BR>
<BR>
Though women are physiologically the “receivers” and men the “givers” in the love-dance, linguistically women are always asked to “gimme some” while a man in the towering mood is said to “take” his woman.  (There are some great expansions on this anti-physiological theme of giving and taking by women and men in Kingsolver’s “The Poisonwood Bible,” but I couldn’t lay my finger on them easily.)<BR>
<BR>
And we start out our journey on the yellow-brick road of Love in a wide-eyed wonder that someone might be able to know our thoughts and needs before our words are formed.  But we find, after adventures untold and hardships uncounted, that truly it is as has been said in the last words of the last song of the last Beatles album: the only things you really take from love will be the best that you have given.  <BR>
<BR>
But weirdest of all (though there are no doubt many more -- any takers???) is the bit so elegantly expressed by Sarah143 in <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2006.09.18.16.20.2294">Making Love</a>:<BR>
<BR>
“Touch me until I am no longer there, <BR>
just a piece of the darkness of your eyes”<BR>
<BR>
How can it be that at the acme of absolute togetherness, a moment often hijacked but always hollow unless completely shared, at that exact point of supreme giving to another person – how is it I say that at that VERY MOMENT --  we disappear so completely into ourselves, and become for a second<BR>
 <BR>
a blank and vacant inward stare, <BR>
the body remaining of a being not then there <BR>
<BR>
(leaving your lover to be, for the moment, “just a piece of the darkness of your eyes”).  <BR>
<BR>
In some religions the climax is thought to be a little death, so maybe this is like the river-Baptist’s burial immersion, but a burial into the self, to emerge out of self into a new moment of selflessness, of absolute having-given. It takes a lot of trust to let yourself die in another’s arms, even for a moment.<BR>
<BR>
So strange, so strange, so very, very strange...<BR>
<BR>
...and yet so very true.<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=8">Ali</a><BR>
Date: 21 September 2006<P>

willtobe1~<BR>
<BR>
The hearts handed over bit...that was, and was not, what it seems.  I used hearts in the general sense.  Each poem I write is not always about the same person.  Each 'broken heart', then, is not necessarily what it may seem.  If that makes sense.  It seems I have a difficult time explaining myself, lately! <BR>
<BR>
*smile* 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1739">lovewhispers</a><BR>
Date: 21 September 2006<P>

I think I'm lost now,,,,,,,  could be the psuedophed,,,?<BR>
Maybe. hmmmmm
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1716">Sarah143</a><BR>
Date: 21 September 2006<P>

Wiltobe never has anyone given such an indepth and intersting comment about one of my pieces. It seems like you really tried to take in the meaning. I appreciate it so much, thank you for taking the time to make such an intelligent and insightful comment.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1739">lovewhispers</a><BR>
Date: 21 September 2006<P>

aparajita, Ali,  Sarah143,,,,,,  You're all very welcome and my thanks to all of you too :-)* <BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=66">willtobe1</a><BR>
Date: 21 September 2006<P>

10-4, Ali.  I think I'm the one on Pseudofed...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1739">lovewhispers</a><BR>
Date: 21 September 2006<P>

willtobe1&gt;&gt;  I am going to agree I think it IS you on psuedophed since it was ME and not Ali that posted earlier about being confused ,, hehehe  you're going to be just fine!!  :-) 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1582">Abogadalbny</a><BR>
Date: 21 September 2006<P>

Hey Aparajita and Rens!  Saw the shout-out's from you both!  Thanks!  Just got pretty much settled here in Hotlanta!  Starting my new job Monday and have to travel on business Wed-Sat to Manhattan!  Plus I just started my MBA!  So busy!!!  But it's all good--the weather here in the South is just gorgeous, as I'm sure you both know! We have to plan a meet-up somewhere, sometime, for sure!!! :)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1348">blakey</a><BR>
Date: 21 September 2006<P>

Abogadalbny, about <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2006.09.21.14.59.21400">Lotto!</a>: All I can say about this piece is BRAVO!!!! There is so much that I agreed with this, that while I was reading it, I caught myself saying, “Oh my God, she right!” and “I never thought of it that way”. I personally feel that I have won the lottery of love in the past and have lost it all. But I’m such a believer in the mystical ways of the universe; I’m going to play the same numbers again. Thank you so much for sharing this.<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1676">lonesome_day01</a><BR>
Date: 21 September 2006<P>

Abogadalbny, about <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2006.09.21.14.59.21400">Lotto!</a>:<BR>
i loved it...especially the last paragraph...great analogy with the lotto/love...all of it well put...as all of your works are...ty for sharing...echoes a lot of my thoughts
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1582">Abogadalbny</a><BR>
Date: 21 September 2006<P>

Aww shucks, Blakey and Lonesome--you made me smile! Thanks for the kind words!  :)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1582">Abogadalbny</a><BR>
Date: 21 September 2006<P>

~Harem~, about <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2006.09.21.18.35.16543">Take Two Aspirin and Call Me in the Morning</a>:<BR>
<BR>
"Douse the louse from your house and your time"--quite possibly the best line I've read in a while!  Awesome!!
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