tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33026160.post8317238371337141904..comments2024-01-27T10:30:40.878-08:00Comments on Grow This: I RememberWeeping Sorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05617503185773155102noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33026160.post-3409164019417707152008-08-05T15:16:00.000-07:002008-08-05T15:16:00.000-07:00W2W,Someday I'll catch up to your vocabulary. I al...W2W,<BR/>Someday I'll catch up to your vocabulary. I always have to look things up, so thanks for the parenthetical definition. I'm glad you saw I'm going for refreshing, rather than soaked in sweat.<BR/><BR/>Lucy,<BR/>I can't wait to torture this into a garden-themed metaphor: skimmed the stones from the navy's jam and put them in the army's jam".<BR/>Sounds debauched, slightly off-color and more than slightly overweight. Like me!<BR/><BR/>Martha,<BR/>"enchanting metaphors"! Here I just thought I could only imagine and remember by strolling through metaphorical edifices, constructed of cliches and Shakespearean references. As I recall from back when I was in seminary school, that's how men remembered in the pre-literate days: by visualizing a speech as a structure, with floors, walls, decorations all stood for memorized meanings. <BR/>Turns out, I'm not illiterate, just not a cool and analytical writer like you. I'm fanciful and frequently delightful. <BR/>WeepingWeeping Sorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05617503185773155102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33026160.post-50665015300553506972008-08-01T08:54:00.000-07:002008-08-01T08:54:00.000-07:00Posts you write cause sparks of recognition or und...Posts you write cause sparks of recognition or understanding in me in a delightful and meloncholy way.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17044970694074554765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33026160.post-69150383143855548882008-07-31T19:01:00.000-07:002008-07-31T19:01:00.000-07:00HelloMartha's comment is interesting. I enjoy you...Hello<BR/><BR/>Martha's comment is interesting. I enjoy your writing because to me it is very earthy and unfanciful. It has all the stones left in.<BR/><BR/>But that's an aside.<BR/><BR/>What I was going to say . . . I missed several of your posts without realising so I've just been catching up.<BR/><BR/>I want to say something encouraging but I don't think you'd appreciate remarks which risk being sentimental or obvious - and I don't understand everything you say so this would be almost inevitable.<BR/><BR/>So, while I'm whiffling away like this, I've decided to tell you a joke. (It's the mention of stones which did it.)<BR/><BR/>This is one of those things which purports to be true but . . . ? ? ?<BR/><BR/>The army and navy had the same jam suppliers. (Perhaps they still do.) (This is the Britich army and navy.)<BR/><BR/>The navy insisted that the stones be removed from the jam. The army didn't. The jam was sold by weight. The company making it skimmed the stones from the navy's jam and put them in the jam it sold to the army.<BR/><BR/>That, surely, must be a metaphor?<BR/><BR/>LucyLucy Corranderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13743561298706555813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33026160.post-21588468115049020812008-07-31T09:03:00.000-07:002008-07-31T09:03:00.000-07:00I believe you have just set a world record for the...I believe you have just set a world record for the number of metaphors in a single posting! This is not a dig. As a reader, I find few things more enchanting than metaphorical expressions. I think it is because I admire them but generally cannot produce them myself. My mind is too literal, hierarchical, relentlessly left-brained. That's why your more fanciful writing, often drawing connections where they had not occurred to me, so frequently delights me.Martha in Michiganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01337334262585721896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33026160.post-76244311916029192912008-07-29T07:48:00.000-07:002008-07-29T07:48:00.000-07:00Don't forget to stand up and stretch your piriform...Don't forget to stand up and stretch your piriformis (thoughts) from time to time! I love the way you think and therefore write. Your blog is a refreshing change from the ordinary, sort of like a scrumptious hors d'oeuvre.walk2writehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13501812375142037251noreply@blogger.com