Re: for what it's worth...oldefoolMarch 2 2009, 04:39:34 UTC
My dear Syinat...
I'm truly blessed to get such an immediate reply from you! Responding to an entry more than a half-year old, I was quite sure it would languish there for some long while. How nice to know we can still connect!
Discovering, furthermore, that we last did much the same thing more than a full year ago, I was moved to refresh my memory by going back through the dozen-plus exchanges between us that I'd saved. Yes, I kept the best - including the very first, four years ago! And it was a nice little stroll through our friendship over that time. A rather long segment of your young life, I should think; and a more special one than you might imagine, in mine.
Did that musical thing that I chickened-out of ever gain any traction? That was just about when I faded back from LJ. But I eventually moved into another range of activity here, setting up a discussion group around the concept of 'having enough' (which has about 150 participants, though they aren't very active).
Then, late in '07, I started a pre-formatted newsletter that goes out as an email. I called it Irv's Scrapbook, and used yet another LJ site as the 'continuation repository', so that I only have to put the lead few paragraphs of each article into my emailing. I think it's the only such thing in existence! Topically, it deals mainly with these remarkably changing times, along with pursuing a Mayan Calendar awareness theme, which I'm sure you know about. I do it pretty much on a monthly schedule, fourteen issues so far.
So you're pretty much caught up with me, now. Except for the shambles of my love life. But . . . we can't have everything at once, can we? Or we can't all get lucky at the same time, which is probably more relevant to this conversation.
Oh, and about that 'blasphemy' remark . . . I was merely bouncing off that resounding FUCK POLITICS that you had in your other entry of that day. Nothing serious.
I'd love it if we continue to stay in touch. In fact, I'd seriously like to send you a book of mine, if you can provide a postal address. It doesn't have to be yours, just a place to send a book to, as a more substantial memento than these ephemeral postings. If you don't like to make it this public, you can send it to irvthom1@comcast.net
I'm truly blessed to get such an immediate reply from you! Responding to an entry more than a half-year old, I was quite sure it would languish there for some long while. How nice to know we can still connect!
Discovering, furthermore, that we last did much the same thing more than a full year ago, I was moved to refresh my memory by going back through the dozen-plus exchanges between us that I'd saved. Yes, I kept the best - including the very first, four years ago! And it was a nice little stroll through our friendship over that time. A rather long segment of your young life, I should think; and a more special one than you might imagine, in mine.
Did that musical thing that I chickened-out of ever gain any traction? That was just about when I faded back from LJ. But I eventually moved into another range of activity here, setting up a discussion group around the concept of 'having enough' (which has about 150 participants, though they aren't very active).
Then, late in '07, I started a pre-formatted newsletter that goes out as an email. I called it Irv's Scrapbook, and used yet another LJ site as the 'continuation repository', so that I only have to put the lead few paragraphs of each article into my emailing. I think it's the only such thing in existence! Topically, it deals mainly with these remarkably changing times, along with pursuing a Mayan Calendar awareness theme, which I'm sure you know about. I do it pretty much on a monthly schedule, fourteen issues so far.
So you're pretty much caught up with me, now. Except for the shambles of my love life. But . . . we can't have everything at once, can we? Or we can't all get lucky at the same time, which is probably more relevant to this conversation.
Oh, and about that 'blasphemy' remark . . . I was merely bouncing off that resounding FUCK POLITICS that you had in your other entry of that day. Nothing serious.
I'd love it if we continue to stay in touch. In fact, I'd seriously like to send you a book of mine, if you can provide a postal address. It doesn't have to be yours, just a place to send a book to, as a more substantial memento than these ephemeral postings. If you don't like to make it this public, you can send it to irvthom1@comcast.net
Whatever it be, my warmest thoughts to you...
Irv
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