Story Telling

[jenlight]

Re-reading The Sandman which I read the one time almost 20 years ago. One thing I’m finding particularly fun are Lucian’s books in the library in The Dreaming. The Merrie Comedie of the Redemption of Doctor Faustus made me smile just now. It’s such an odd experience re-reading something so many years after the first time. I’m finding Sandman more “

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[rfrancis]

I can relate -- both of my grandfathers were dead long (in one case like 3 decades) before I was born. I vaguely remember my maternal grandmother but she got Alzheimer's (although we didn't know that at the time, it was just, you know, crazy senile or whatever) when I was like 7 and moved back to Georgia. So basically grandparents is one person to me, who was awesome to be sure, albeit not much of a storyteller.

I do wonder what grandfathers are like, though. Like you, I'm wrapping my head around my dad being the model I have for it, as he has several grandkids now (two of them being my kids.) (And a ton of step-grandkids, step-great-grandkids, one step-great-great-grandkid, but... not the same. I had step-grandparents but I don't count them except as someone I vaguely knew.)

Peripheral, but you know I can't resist dumping biographies every time someone speaks around me...

[jenlight]

I want ALL the biographies!

[jenlight]

Oh, I want to run this by people. You're a good person to start with.

You think I should post friend's only here so that people feel safer replying honestly? I'm cross-posting shite elsewhere, but maybe keep LJ closed?

What do you think?

Are you more likely to be all laid back and honest and feel safer saying stuff if it's friend locked? Or does it not really matter?

[jenlight]

FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU *FRIENDS ONLY

I will not pay for an edit button, LJ!

[rfrancis]

Hmm, interesting question. I never actually think about whether a post is locked or not when I comment on it, I guess, not because I'm so bold (I'm not) but because I just don't think of it.

I've recently friendslocked my Livejournal by default just to give it a distinct purpose from other sites, which is for me to vent or ramble about my personal life or talk about health issues I don't need insurance companies or whatever seeing, etc, without having to be anonymous as such. But that's kind of a different intent, I guess?