tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7352133.post116486392432913290..comments2023-12-23T07:29:02.620-06:00Comments on Diary of a Self-Portrait: walking and writing. walking and reading.Jessiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10377814945121401007noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7352133.post-1165347122071948932006-12-05T13:32:00.000-06:002006-12-05T13:32:00.000-06:00okay so this is so interesting...i started re-read...okay so this is so interesting...i started re-reading this book late last week. i have had it on my bookshelf for about ten years now. i haven't been keeping up with sunday scribblings lately so i didn't realize they had used it. <BR/><BR/>i love that we are both reading this book right now. love it. (i wish we could have a book club meeting about it.)<BR/><BR/>that very same passage about the breath in pairs struck me deeply. i started writing in the margins.liz elayne lamoreuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16014874211913051234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7352133.post-1165335925382477712006-12-05T10:25:00.000-06:002006-12-05T10:25:00.000-06:00i MUST read this book!i MUST read this book!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7352133.post-1165197947476414672006-12-03T20:05:00.000-06:002006-12-03T20:05:00.000-06:00Jessie, I'm so glad I came across your blog. I've ...Jessie, <BR/>I'm so glad I came across your blog. I've missed you! You've reminded me about A Natural History of the Senses, and I've pulled my copy off its shelf. I need inspiration, and this is perfect. Your writing about grad school and what it might have done to you is refreshing to me also. We should meet up again, and talk, and read and read and read without feeling the least bit guilty that it has nothing to do with our theses!<BR/>Tell Vinnie 'hi', and take care of yourself! Thanks for your beautiful words.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7352133.post-1165173099803958062006-12-03T13:11:00.000-06:002006-12-03T13:11:00.000-06:00This piece, and especially this line, my words sli...This piece, and especially this line, <I>my words slipped into the sky</I>, inspired me to stay up and write <A HREF="http://bicesagan.com/2006/12/03/leslie-sometime-before-dawn/" REL="nofollow">leslie: sometime before dawn</A> last night.<BR/><BR/>We never know just what our words may inspire. Thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7352133.post-1165150079666721982006-12-03T06:47:00.000-06:002006-12-03T06:47:00.000-06:00my child smells like cotton candy-and the hopeful ...my child smells like cotton candy-<BR/>and the hopeful morning and a<BR/>song when you are falling in love<BR/>and a little dash of clove.sophiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11661402907743286458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7352133.post-1165076863795177242006-12-02T10:27:00.000-06:002006-12-02T10:27:00.000-06:00hey - I have loved this book for years - the smell...hey - I have loved this book for years - the smell section gets me every time! I always wonder about books that I ADORE that end up in used book stores - I am horrified that anyone can SELL those books... I have to believe it's the fairies or angels that leave them for us to find when we need them - it's the only explanation I'll accept!! <BR/><BR/>xooxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7352133.post-1165041835869163002006-12-02T00:43:00.000-06:002006-12-02T00:43:00.000-06:00i'll have to check this one out...your writing is ...i'll have to check this one out...your writing is lovely. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7352133.post-1165037862941480002006-12-01T23:37:00.000-06:002006-12-01T23:37:00.000-06:00books and tea and cats and a SNOW DAY?! oh...you ...books and tea and cats and a SNOW DAY?! oh...you know how absolutely jealous that makes me, don't you? dang, i'd love to be in madison making snow angels with you. i love snow days. :)<BR/><BR/>ps.<BR/>i bought the book because of what you wrote on your blog about it. i read some more (again while walking to work)...and let me just say that i am loving this book. thanks for inadvertently sending me to her.Jessiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10377814945121401007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7352133.post-1164988670379655082006-12-01T09:57:00.000-06:002006-12-01T09:57:00.000-06:00I'm so glad you posted about this ... I've been pu...I'm so glad you posted about this ... I've been putting off picking it up again in the middle of Sound, and so I'll think I'll march upstairs and curl up on the sofa with it on this snow day ... Yep, at least two inches in the last six hours, and more on the way. No walking and reading today because probably no walking ... Just tea and cats and curled up on the sofa business ... Mmmm. I like snow days ...<BR/><BR/>Wanna come make snow angels with me???Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7352133.post-1164936549887258762006-11-30T19:29:00.000-06:002006-11-30T19:29:00.000-06:00i love your writing when you are outside, jessie! ...i love your writing when you are outside, jessie! what a great post. i want that book badly. i wish i had it right this moment.<BR/><BR/>:)kjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15122196887043345981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7352133.post-1164926747964526232006-11-30T16:45:00.000-06:002006-11-30T16:45:00.000-06:00Jessie...you rock. That was an asesome post. Your ...Jessie...you rock. That was an asesome post. Your words are like a song. Maybe we can get David Foster to arrange the music to this...I see a hit. Maybe even get Renee Olstead to sing it. <BR/><BR/>I walked with Anu in the woods and, for some reason, a crystal clear monologue just sort of tumbled out of my mind and mouth. I wished I had a tape recorder because I knew I wouldn't be able to keep up with myself any other way. But, instead, my words slipped into the sky and frost and frozen leaves...<BR/><BR/>wonderful...Later Jessie.Spiky Zora Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09283587481327552086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7352133.post-1164916171693193842006-11-30T13:49:00.000-06:002006-11-30T13:49:00.000-06:00Sounds incredible...Sounds incredible...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7352133.post-1164900784495435162006-11-30T09:33:00.000-06:002006-11-30T09:33:00.000-06:00you have totallysoldme on that book...:)you have totally<BR/>sold<BR/>me on that book...<BR/>:)gkgirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00403357033466233622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7352133.post-1164898563098804462006-11-30T08:56:00.000-06:002006-11-30T08:56:00.000-06:00Sounds like an amazing book! It's funny because I...Sounds like an amazing book! It's funny because I was only mentioning the other day how my son smells when he's wrapped up at midnight and all asleep and I go in and give him a surrepticious. He smells like warm, sweet vinegary chips! (fries to you?) Odd but true :DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7352133.post-1164895483566596632006-11-30T08:04:00.000-06:002006-11-30T08:04:00.000-06:00i love that you can walk and read. i've told you t...i love that you can walk and read. i've told you that, right?<BR/><BR/>i have to find this book, like yesterday. i already finished "living artfully"! (thank you...couldn't put it down.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7352133.post-1164883018587609332006-11-30T04:36:00.000-06:002006-11-30T04:36:00.000-06:00i've just headed straight over to Amazon to order ...i've just headed straight over to Amazon to order this book! (though delivery is 4-6 weeks, goddammit). it sounds incredible, as was your very evocative recommendation xoSusannah Conwayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11729273567277588887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7352133.post-1164867609438646882006-11-30T00:20:00.000-06:002006-11-30T00:20:00.000-06:00I'll have to read this again tomorrow. All those l...I'll have to read this again tomorrow. All those luscious words about breathing have made me yawn and now I must go to bed. :)Deirdrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01111665177473414894noreply@blogger.com