Newf: Ben, do you know of anyone interested in adopting a two-year-old, fully trained basset hound?
Me: *too busy to respond as I am trying to keep my insides from exploding with excitement while shoving my current puppy off my lap because he is officially old news and no longer worth my attention…*
Newf: Anyone who is not us?
Me: *picks up old-news puppy out of the garbage and sulks…*
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Lauren: WOO is right!!
Aine: I just know that most people don’t really care to understand poetry which is why they’re reading blogs. Who am I to force something on them that they don’t want anyway?
Heather: Not in the least…the images are from the original journals.
Rachel: Not by much.
Kyla: Pure chance. The day camp was located just off a historic canal that runs through the province. I chatted with historians about the location and they pointed me to the archives to find this amazing one-line-per-day journal that the family kept going from the 1800s to the early 1900s. Amazing stuff.
Roro: Thanks so much. That means a lot
Allie: Thanks! And See my response to Kyla.
DMB: Enthusiasm! I LOVE IT.
Marie: This particular entry is. The whole story is a bit sad since the house we ran the camp out of was condemned the following year. I’m not a tortured soul or anything though, don’t worry.
Andy: It’s all subjective. Just take a chance and see what happens I suppose. I don’t really pursue this stuff but it seems to fall in my lap every now and then.
Paul: I don’t entirely get it either, don’t worry,
EP: The one at my old university actually!
Kate: I think we could all benefit to take some risks and not get too comfortable in our blogs. No?
Mermanda: Share some of your stuff!
Heather: See, I could absolutely never be a painter. I get too caught up in the details and trying to get something to live up to what I see in my head…which i can’t.
Alice: Well thanks! i won’t do them all the time but on occasion…
Lauren: Thanks!
Kristen: Do you still have any of them??
Matt: Poetry famous is about as famous as the third blade of grass from the left on my lawn. But thank you haha
Maegan: Thanks so much!
Megkathleen: One of the strangest things I’ve ever pushed myself into but I’m glad I did.
Transienttravels: Thank you very, very much.
Michelle: It’s tough. I have to completely separate it from my other writing and really get into an entirely different headspace. It takes a lot of time to get there mentally.
Auburn: Not really but thank you
Peter: I knew I could lure you over here….
Cassette: Well thank you for enjoying it!
Wow. That really is beautiful writing. Thank you for sharing.
Dude… VERY cool.
(Now, I feel bad that most of my writing last week was about butts.)
You are a star!
I can’t do poetry. I’ve tried, but I’m just too literal. It’s an amazing craft, though. Congrats!
You’re a great writer.
That’s awesome!
What a cool and creative idea!
wow, that’s fucking awesome! congrats!
You’re totally famous. Can I have an autograph?
Seriously…just mail it to me?
thanks
Wow. That was gorgeous.
I used to write poetry but it was so emo that my professor thought I was suicidal.
So I stopped writing it.
That’s what I get for trying to channel Sylvia Plath.
Wow, that’s really, really interesting. What a neat thing to do! And beautifully written, might I add!
Wicked idea and so elegantly written. I love out-of-the-ordinary entries
I write when I’m angry. No cool inspiration for me. Only for painting. My poems are always teen angsty and melodramatic. Sigh.
Beautiful penmanship and description.
I thought myself to be a poet once… we have that in common much like how we are both awesomely awesome.
Thank you for sharing this. I think a lot of us have hidden parts of our lives just to keep our blogs in the voice in which we aim. But it’s nice to hear another voice, which is also at once, completely you.
That’s really exciting for you! What art gallery is it going in?
Can’t say I totally get it, but I have a vast appreciation for it. Much better with numbers than I have literary chops! I guess I’m left-brained.
Good stuff man. I’d post some of my non-funny stuff, but I lack the necessary cajones and/or talent.
Um, dark much? I am a fan, though, of finding old, archivey, museumy stuff (I just made up some words).
PRETTY NIFTY!
Also, I’d love to hear more about the source too.
Coolest project EVER!! Man I love that. Wonderful stuff, Ben.
Wow, that’s beautiful.
That’s amazing work Ben, wow. I’d love to hear how you came across the source material.
much better then my poem about a guy from Nantucket….
Do you do calligraphy?
Beautiful stuff, man.
I tend to keep a kind of self-censor on my blog, too… not even just in terms of changing names and not naming workplaces, but of keepin’ up the follies and foibles. Truth be told, that’s why I’m so hesitant to post some of my other writing for Short Story Saturday…
WOO, ARCHIVES!