Comments on: Horse and Buggy

By: kbartha

kbartha — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 21:31:36 +0000

While in seminary I asked God to teach me how to read and write. I’m dyslexic and have always had issues with letters and white space and contrast…Well, God taught me how to speed read and I’ve been experimenting with words since He told me to write a book after showing me Jeremiah 30:1 at a spiritual retreat at a Benedictine Monastery. My personal creative process is: Saturation. Incubation. Conception. Story-boarding. Consumation.

Great stopping by. I’ll pray for you in this.

By: tk

tk — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 16:34:09 +0000

wow pierced1, that’s a great, though a little unsettling picture!

By: pierced1

pierced1 — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:53:03 +0000

thomas – even if they seem like ramblings to you, or are ramblings in your brain – the best way to get rid of the ramblings is to spew it out. It is like drinking too much on a Sat. night. you know you have to sing in Church the next am and the only way you’ll be able to is to get rid of what is in your stomach…soo….(and I’m not promoting anything here)…you empty the stomach, the bubbling, gurgling stomach and the mind clears, you sleep well and you sing bass like you’ve never sung bass before.

thats all I’m saying

By: Brandon

Brandon — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:26:44 +0000

I remember this one time when Thomas wrote things in this blog. . . . .yeah, those were good times. What happened to those times?

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 03:19:13 +0000

Well you know, I do read this. I just pretend I don’t most of the time. It still has value.

By: Lara

Lara — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 09:10:40 +0000

Well, I just got here…. so it hasn’t lost it’s value for me yet.

By: tk

tk — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 00:02:02 +0000

Julie, you are always such a blessing.

Thank you.

By: JulieVW

JulieVW — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 19:46:19 +0000

Mrs. Lighthall was a High School English teacher – we called her Mrs. Lighthead because she was kind of a ditz, but that’s completely irrelevant to this comment.

Anyway, Lighthead would say that you already write well. She would take out that awful red pen and underline the “bubbling” “undercurrent” “bursting” and “invade” metaphors and then draw stars next to each of them. (Lighthead liked metaphors and hand drawn stars – I betcha your essays would get lotsa stars from mean ‘ole Mrs. Lighthall!)

She also liked objects in our writings (key chains, telephones, sweaters, klenex -it didn’t matter what you used or how you used them, as long as there were objects somewhere in your essay).

Alas, your only object is “books” (maybe “buggy” but I don’t think that counts). But that’s good too because on the re-write assingment you could throw in a few objects (“bubbling like a pot of sauce on a grandma’s stove“) and she’d go crazy – A+’s all around!

But maybe the whole gransma’s stove objects is a little much – afterall, why would you trust writing advice from a woman named “Lighthead”??

Enjoy your summer – read widely, think deeply, drink in the arts and cultue, and once in a while maybe drop me a line that says something profound (metaphors, objects, and red stars are optional!)

By: tk

tk — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 18:12:38 +0000

thanks buddy

By: timsamoff

timsamoff — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:21:34 +0000

Well, we will be waiting, anyway.