December 8, 2005

  • "I would like to beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language... Live the questions now. Perhaps, then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into an answer." (Rainer Maria Rilke)

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  • I like that you asked.  I remember seeing that long thing and looking at it, realizing how intense it was and needing to come back.  But of course that never happened.  Then the other day I wondered where you'd been.

  • Dear Lily,

    Since I always think I don't visit people's blogs enough (and yet still have over 100 subscriptions and over 100 people in my blogring, Internet Island  and probably get around better than most folks) I will enter a comment on today's post, which has not content. I know you probably opened it up to add an entry, and then closed it without entering anything. You will probably add something later.

    You don't comment much on my site, as I know and you know. In fact your first comment to me, if memory serves, was that you read the blog but didn't comment because you were "shy". (That might not even be the case. I read so many blogs how can I remember who people are much less what they said.) In any case, your poetry is still great, for a "rough draft" your latest piece is not only something that blows away most of what I write and call "poetry" but it rhymes so well, it's almost a "rap" which is neat considering the topic of internet dating.
    Take Care,
    Michael F. Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool

  • perfect advice- that quote above... sometimes the questions scare us away from the answers....

  • I really miss you when you're not updating (not meant to be emotional blackmail or anything - I'm the worst about not updating regularly). Just wanted you to know.

    The piece you wrote below is just beautiful. You are such an amazing woman. I feel privileged to have found your site.

    Thanks for sharing these things that you rip out of your heart and guts.

  • I'm here. Love Rainer Maria Rilke.

  • I agree with Rilke as a lot of problems are strictly temporal, but he forgot that equally they could be locational. Put time or distance between the problem and yourself and either you are left with no choice but one action or the whole thing evaporates (to be replaced by further problems, but that's entropy for you!) 

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