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lookingland) wrote2006-12-31 08:10 am
lookingland) wrote2006-12-31 08:10 am
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the price of right ~
i was gonna buy some snow shoes this weekend, but seeing as it refuses to snow and, having gone to the bank yesterday a.m. and discovering that Church mice are comparatively rolling in it this season, i guess it's a weekend at home with the post-parked doggies (now crashed under my comforter in the bedroom), and the rain-gloom hovering at the windows.
which is just as well because i have been working on the website off and on, and though it is crawling, I am almost getting somewhere with it. i think, goal-wise, if i can get all the basic parts in place this weekend with at least temporary page holders, i will be happy.
i'm having some delightful rishi snow buds tea. got such a lot of wonderful tea for Christmas ~ ginger and passion fruit and more ~ and a wonderful blue and white tea kettle and a tea cozy (wow, my very own tea cozy, knitted with love!) tea is great on a rainy morning.
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in writing: i'm still happy with my new title, though more daunted than ever about putting it together. whenever faced with the difficulty of actually composing triptychs, i get rather squirmy. not everything falls naturally into three beats and it becomes a question of whether i should try to force it on top of which i have proven (again and again) that my endurance in this area is poor at best (for those of you who remember my french triptychs).
i spent part of yesterday with james and emmaline hunter, which is unusual, but sometimes it's nice to get away from lewis and morse and look at the mortar that binds everything together. i've always liked James and Emmaline as characters despite how derivative they are. try as i might to make emmaline her own person, she'll always be melanie hamilton no matter what i do to her. oh well. it's the hair, i think.
more importntly, i feel like i am getting more emboldened about being able to tell their stories since the years and research have got me so much more comfortable with the politics of the era (last night i was reading about Preston Brooks ~ oh my God, you can't make up stuff like this!).
Anyway, my point is, I think I understand better than ever these days why perfectly sane and intelligent people like James and Morse would be seccessionists and why otherwise non-slavery supporting southerners would do anything to distance themselves from abolitionists (Pottawatomie Massacre anyone?).
it doesn't get much more barbaric than using broadswords
to hack up your enemies. (from the Harper's Ferry Museum).
not that loony john brown was the only murderer rampaging through Kansas, mind you, but the rationalization to kill people outright to set other people free will always astonish me moreso than just killing people out of bigotry or hatred. maybe both rationalizations are just as equally self-righteous and despicable. but it seems to me that the person who is on the side of the right has the greater responsibility to act with humanity and reason in order to set the good example.
and if anyone is curious as to why this is at all relevent to us 150 years later, you've not been watching the news lately.
all of which is much too heavy to get into on a morning like this!
it's the last day of 2006. much hope and prayer that 2007 will bring positive changes to the condition of the world.
: D
i am off to do some writing perhaps ~ happy sunday lj!
which is just as well because i have been working on the website off and on, and though it is crawling, I am almost getting somewhere with it. i think, goal-wise, if i can get all the basic parts in place this weekend with at least temporary page holders, i will be happy.
i'm having some delightful rishi snow buds tea. got such a lot of wonderful tea for Christmas ~ ginger and passion fruit and more ~ and a wonderful blue and white tea kettle and a tea cozy (wow, my very own tea cozy, knitted with love!) tea is great on a rainy morning.
~ * ~
in writing: i'm still happy with my new title, though more daunted than ever about putting it together. whenever faced with the difficulty of actually composing triptychs, i get rather squirmy. not everything falls naturally into three beats and it becomes a question of whether i should try to force it on top of which i have proven (again and again) that my endurance in this area is poor at best (for those of you who remember my french triptychs).
i spent part of yesterday with james and emmaline hunter, which is unusual, but sometimes it's nice to get away from lewis and morse and look at the mortar that binds everything together. i've always liked James and Emmaline as characters despite how derivative they are. try as i might to make emmaline her own person, she'll always be melanie hamilton no matter what i do to her. oh well. it's the hair, i think.
more importntly, i feel like i am getting more emboldened about being able to tell their stories since the years and research have got me so much more comfortable with the politics of the era (last night i was reading about Preston Brooks ~ oh my God, you can't make up stuff like this!).
Anyway, my point is, I think I understand better than ever these days why perfectly sane and intelligent people like James and Morse would be seccessionists and why otherwise non-slavery supporting southerners would do anything to distance themselves from abolitionists (Pottawatomie Massacre anyone?).
it doesn't get much more barbaric than using broadswords
to hack up your enemies. (from the Harper's Ferry Museum).
not that loony john brown was the only murderer rampaging through Kansas, mind you, but the rationalization to kill people outright to set other people free will always astonish me moreso than just killing people out of bigotry or hatred. maybe both rationalizations are just as equally self-righteous and despicable. but it seems to me that the person who is on the side of the right has the greater responsibility to act with humanity and reason in order to set the good example.
and if anyone is curious as to why this is at all relevent to us 150 years later, you've not been watching the news lately.
all of which is much too heavy to get into on a morning like this!
it's the last day of 2006. much hope and prayer that 2007 will bring positive changes to the condition of the world.
: D
i am off to do some writing perhaps ~ happy sunday lj!
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Happy New Years to you too, and yay for writing! I loved the triptych idea - but, ya know, I bet things will fall into place because you've planted the seed of what you want in your brain. And, if they don't, maybe there's a reason for it, because sometimes the things that poke out of triptychs or run over the sides....or, are on the back, in the margins...oops. I'm getting all excited about marginalia again. Oops.
*sends good writing vibes* I'm jonesing for more :D
An aside...Mikel's reading the Nathaniel Starbucks Chronicles right now, by Bernard Cornwell - have you read those?
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I also haven't been watching the news, but just from reading the history aspects of your post, I have a feeling its all terrible, terrible junk that will bring tears to my eyes... or enrage me at the injustice. But then the world is cruddy like that.
Isn't it wacky that it's the last day of 2006 already? It's like.. when did this happen? I feel as if time is moving much too fast for me.
From what I remember of your past triptychs (which did sadly fizzle out after awhile), they were very pretty, and I liked them greatly. ^_^ But then I admire all your work, so maybe that doesn't mean as much?
I'd inspire you and somehow infuse you with endurance to tackle this project, but alas it only comes in prayer form. Praying about writing. I think that's plausible, right? For it's one of the gifts God gave you... and praying that you utilize it to the best of your ability with maybe some added dosages of inspiration mixed in...
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Happy New Year
(Anonymous) 2007-01-01 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)And I keep on believing~
Love,
moo
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