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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…

I'm at the point of, do I throw out family things? I seem to be the last person interested.
Christmas? Will I ever decorate again?
Cooking, sewing. Haven't done it much lately, but will I again? Too expensive to replace, and would get nothing for it if I sell.
Too hard to give up one's accomplishments, and that's what useful things are..accomplishments, just to have less to move, or take up less space.

ChristmasCarol (Anonymous) says…

Under a Banana Moon

I woke up this morning at 1:30 from a night of derivation and
medial remorse for not having had a better youth and thought of my lover far and away in the east and how we are to remain apart for three weeks too much longer and all the sappy things I have heard in my life.

One thing I will never recover from is the fact that this year is my 20 year H.S. reunion and I will be perfectly honest with you.

I do not think there is anyone that I knew before the age of 18 I ever want to see again.

I have chosen or should I say it was forced in my lap the fate that I have thus far and I do have some regrets, however I do not think that there is anything I could have done to make it better.

Good luck with your “Daily Guideposts”

As I woke up and looked up at the sky I saw the moon about to set and I held my breakfast banana up to it and noticed how they were both shaped the same.

ChristmasCarol (Anonymous) says…

It dismays me to think that I had not met anyone by the age of 18 that cared enough for me in this town to help me with the problems I had and to add to it to make them worse if possible.

On top of that I had a population of people that seemed to expect something from me as I had so little and they had so much yet they were not willing to make it so I was able to have anything much for myself anyway.

I think it points to a unhealthy example of people and how they expected and demanded more from me than I was able to give and in addition only added to my problems.

supercowbellninja (Anonymous) says…

Uhh…. What? This column is all over the map! Email forwards, tax refund checks, credit card debt, high school teaching assignments, etc.

I think the author is well-intentioned, but needs badly to have some organization to her thoughts - this was too disorganized to make any sense from start to finish.

It is evident when the writer is forced to use awkward transitions such as “Anyway” and “So, back to my things.” If the writer would spend some extra minutes condensing her thoughts, I think this would have been a decent column.

Instead, I thought it was incredibly scattered and indulgent.

canyon_wren (Anonymous) says…

supercow—you obviously are pretty young, or it would make more sense to you. Maybe you are just not familiar with a lot of different styles of writing. I thought it was quite cohesive and certainly appealed to me in many ways. And it was “right on” as far as describing society's trend toward valuing possessions—the bigger, the better—over more important things like family relationships, etc. Save this “essay” and read it when you are in your 60s and you may understand it better.

ModSquadGal (Anonymous) says…

Geez people, miss the point much? This is a great article, very poignant. If you didn't get anything out of it other than sentence structure or the definition of recession, you are exactly the folks about whom she's talking.

We should all take a little time to appreciate what we have. Be present, grateful, and knowledgeable about what truly has value.

cato_the_elder (Anonymous) says…

Corrector, you are of course correct, but you can't expect a leftist who has moved to Lawrence to be with the other leftists to understand it or agree with you, especially when (a) she and the politicians she supports have to criticize what has actually been an amazingly resilient economy in order to sell their snake oil in November, and (2) she thinks that there is something wrong with young people wanting to earn enough money to afford nice houses and cars when they get older. From what I have read of this author since she graced us with her presence here leads me to believe that her vision of the “American Dream” probably has us all living in tents using one hour of electricity a day from the wind turbines located on our collective farms.

supercowbellninja (Anonymous) says…

woah, woah! I get the point about material goods and the value of memories and friendships and all that stuff, but man, this thing is all over the place!

Why not write a column about the recession, and another about teaching high school, and another about credit card debt.

Ok, sure they are all connected to some degree, but I thought they were all shoe-horned into this column in very rag-tag manner with little or no linear thought! Let's expand on one or two of these and not just touch-and-go on them all at once!

And, would it kill this writer to not write in the first person every single time?

canyon_wren (Anonymous) says…

supercow—you just don't get it. I'll bet you never got much beyond Dick, Jane and Sally in your reading. Your loss!

supercowbellninja (Anonymous) says…

oh snap - I feel totally at a loss for….umm…words? You people get so bent out of shape if anyone comments on here and doesn't offer a big hug or congratulatory handshake for forming a complete sentence and getting it published.

I don't like this writing - I tried - and I still don't get it. I think it rambles, I think it's indulgent, and I think it's about 5 paragraphs too long. I like the idea behind it but it needs to be refined and tightened up instead of allowed to touch-and-go off major national issues and generalized personal memories

Now, proceed with the jokes about my age and reading level because that's clearly as high as your intellect can reach in a healthy debate.

Easy_Does_It (Anonymous) says…

Supercow - this one is actually better than her past attempts.

So many issues so little time.

supercowbellninja (Anonymous) says…

haha - too funny, Easy!