tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17765202.post2327095174699850085..comments2024-03-09T13:19:49.767-05:00Comments on House of Lime: Why I'm Here-With Apologies to Jacqueline Bergerlimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17259558876349307173noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17765202.post-23347259303854557652011-04-14T06:33:53.541-04:002011-04-14T06:33:53.541-04:00Guess I got here by the grace of God - or the Univ...Guess I got here by the grace of God - or the Universe - is there a difference? :)Jinksyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01686101468214361004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17765202.post-61784911286148066992011-04-13T13:43:12.131-04:002011-04-13T13:43:12.131-04:00That is a beautifully written poem. So much feelin...That is a beautifully written poem. So much feeling here, and also a gentle pathos. but no regrets! I love this!Monahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08615034229525061880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17765202.post-22298903544247847382011-04-13T12:09:27.880-04:002011-04-13T12:09:27.880-04:00Yess'm... You be one MIGHTY Fine writer when y...Yess'm... You be one MIGHTY Fine writer when you've a mind to..GG-Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14968807697181554781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17765202.post-67600361790559806492011-04-12T18:13:22.475-04:002011-04-12T18:13:22.475-04:00speechless
when do we get the hard bound version ...speechless <br />when do we get the hard bound version of house of Lime? <br />♥♥Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03706844568750488890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17765202.post-35882693722508416422011-04-12T15:12:41.835-04:002011-04-12T15:12:41.835-04:00As Cricket said, but in different words, I'm h...As Cricket said, but in different words, I'm here because I love you. Of course, you wanted something about my being here in a more general sense, in the world itself.<br /><br />I'm here because two people loved each other, if only for a relatively short number of years. My coming probably resulted in their being together years longer than they otherwise might have been. Through whatever they were feeling about each other, neither one ever showed me anything less than love. They sacrificed their own comfort for mine, many times over, and put off what was probably inevitable until I was old enough to understand. I am here because of love; first theirs for each other, then theirs for me.Suldoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07778845367184916684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17765202.post-74607617356290309292011-04-12T14:19:14.733-04:002011-04-12T14:19:14.733-04:00Well, I'm here to read a funny, or poetic, or ...Well, I'm <i>here</i> to read a funny, or poetic, or thought provoking post.<br /><br />I love your conclusion in particular. I'd copy and paste but I'm not sure how to do that on this little "crap-top" I'm using at the moment.<br /><br />As to your larger question, I'll have to think about that. When I was little, my grandfather gave me an illuminated quotation from the Catechism to keep on my night-table. It was the first thing I saw in the morning, the last thing I saw at night. I still have it:<br /><br /><i>God made me to know Him, to love Him, to serve Him in this world and to be happy with Him forever in the next.</i><br /><br />So there's that, of course, though that isn't specific to me. Maybe I'll let this one rattle around in my thinkertoy for a while...Crickethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07584174478393760131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17765202.post-22626590221834137822011-04-12T14:09:15.479-04:002011-04-12T14:09:15.479-04:00in a wild night of pure abandonment my parents bro...in a wild night of pure abandonment my parents broke out the turkey basterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17765202.post-12989873121269918892011-04-12T10:14:43.078-04:002011-04-12T10:14:43.078-04:00So much love in that story...
I may have to do th...So much love in that story...<br /><br />I may have to do this too.Logophilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05791617221187190709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17765202.post-15381577032074381222011-04-12T09:48:47.326-04:002011-04-12T09:48:47.326-04:00Rich; very rich, dear friend. . .
I couldn't ...Rich; very rich, dear friend. . .<br /><br />I couldn't put it as poetically as you, but aspects of my story are similar to yours. . .<br /><br />The college girl, prettier than she knows, bowled over by the attention of a rakish Korean War vet. . . The Michigan farm boy, bringing home his German war bride, childless after nine years of marriage. . . Nine more years, after which she decided she'd had enough. . . A new wife, with three more kids, and making two more together; yours-mine-and-ours. . .<br /><br />I still need to do more research into the Palatine Germans who left for America in the 1730s, and the troubles that led them to do so (which accounts in large part for both my adoptive father and my birth-mother). . . As well as the hardscrabble Englishmen who populated New England in the mid-1600s, and in the fullness of time, migrated inexorably westward. . .<br /><br />I have at least one ancestor who may have been a Civil War draft-dodger, and another who left England (just around the corner from Stratford-on-Avon) for Canada with a wife 15 years his senior. . . And another who was a Congregationalist clergyman. . .<br /><br />So. . . very basic, very human stuff. . .<br /><br />That whole question of 'How I Got Here' is just endlessly fascinating. . .Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12044041773404411751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17765202.post-3405975239651431062011-04-11T23:39:26.978-04:002011-04-11T23:39:26.978-04:00ok i got one up, it's not very good.ok i got one up, it's not very good.clean and crazyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09156586299182570611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17765202.post-50534815330913722682011-04-11T23:24:24.560-04:002011-04-11T23:24:24.560-04:00that is amazing, is there a word count? i will giv...that is amazing, is there a word count? i will give it a try. i think it fits my mood, this questionclean and crazyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09156586299182570611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17765202.post-87900082558830623772011-04-11T22:31:40.869-04:002011-04-11T22:31:40.869-04:00Absolutely beautiful.
its gotta be a post for me ...Absolutely beautiful.<br /><br />its gotta be a post for me sometime this week too. <br /><br />--snowsnowelfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06774922203013114354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17765202.post-32930403016039544742011-04-11T21:00:17.471-04:002011-04-11T21:00:17.471-04:00Quaker roots! I like that.
I may do this one as ...Quaker roots! I like that.<br /><br />I may do this one as a post - too long for a comment!secret agent womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03763879283931347382noreply@blogger.com