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LazyBonesStudios [2010-05-02 19:53:51 +0000 UTC]
Wow! Is like a menu on the flavors of life. Bravo to fold. Once for constucting this work in such an artful manner and again for the courage to share.
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a2valentine In reply to LazyBonesStudios [2010-05-03 06:36:29 +0000 UTC]
it's so much easier to share with strangers, eye am discovering, as family and friends easily become em-bare-assed once they get to know details, and lookout when they find you're writing a book about your childhood sexual abuse... so thanks, not that eye was looking to be artful (the above just "poured out" of me one afternoon in less than an hour... and courage, yes, we all have it... thank you for recognizing that eye am using it <3
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wallawallabigguy [2010-02-27 18:41:54 +0000 UTC]
An amazing historical compilation!
And I have to say how I am shocked by the "Christians" who claim to be filled with God's love, yet will say things like your hex-husband said. They think this is love?
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faeriecrone [2010-02-24 01:35:51 +0000 UTC]
if the heart's capacity for joy is carved out by the tool of pain ... you have a really big heart.
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a2valentine In reply to faeriecrone [2010-02-27 23:08:55 +0000 UTC]
thank you...
your words remind me of gibran
and joseph campbell... oh! eye am reading the power of mythology and getting lost in dictionaries of symbols and have ordered more of his books... just when you think life can't get richer, it does
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faeriecrone In reply to a2valentine [2010-03-08 22:25:12 +0000 UTC]
I love Hero with a Thousand Faces, but really came to enjoy Campbell when I read the book which is a transcript of the Bill Moyer PBS series with Campbell.
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a2valentine In reply to hell-on-a-stick [2010-02-10 19:51:38 +0000 UTC]
thank you, we're all tough bastards, eh? (your chapbook is so close to home, eye can only read bits/pieces at a time), which of course reminds me of this:
On December 12, 1992 at 10:36 p.m., I asked my (now hex-) husband, a Pentecostal preacher, "Where was God when I was being sexually abused?" He answered, "He was not with you. You were a bastard. You were born unclean. Had he been with you, the Lord would have protected you. God can not fail. I'm saying that for every child. If he [a husband] was not a servant or his wife not a servant or his wife not a servant of God." He further explains that since I was born out of wedlock, "She was whoring. She had no husband. Therefore you were born unclean."
so all us tough bastards and rough bitches are working out our own salvation, just as the bible instructs, yes we are
writing about it really clears the air, doesn't it joseph?
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hell-on-a-stick In reply to a2valentine [2010-02-15 15:29:38 +0000 UTC]
yes it does. in more ways that I can tell.
This is an amazing story. I'm sure you'll get it down. you've got all the necessaries and all the words. Everything I see from you is 'right'. Its the real thing.
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Multisingularity [2010-01-20 06:53:33 +0000 UTC]
And through it all you shine, like the brightest star amidst a sky of shadows.
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a2valentine In reply to Multisingularity [2010-02-27 23:10:44 +0000 UTC]
thank you steffan, eye am so blessed to have you as a friend, you are wise beyond your tender years! <3
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