tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9604161.post112968174509416631..comments2024-01-07T00:44:10.737-08:00Comments on Lisa Snellings: October 18Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17033378825749946868noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9604161.post-1129898973455295832005-10-21T05:49:00.000-07:002005-10-21T05:49:00.000-07:00My condolensces for the passing of your father. Re...My condolensces for the passing of your father. Regardless of how recent it has been it has to be hard to deal with the loss of a parent. I am not at all ready for this to occur in my own life and dread the day I have to deal with it. It is kind of a poignant reminder of the cycle of life that you have a family birth on the same day.Carl V. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15948764216438379394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9604161.post-1129747327090549062005-10-19T11:42:00.000-07:002005-10-19T11:42:00.000-07:00It is so strange to me how a song, a smell, a shad...It is so strange to me how a song, a smell, a shade of color, an old toy ... how all these things can forcibly wrench us from the present and remind us of the aliens we used to be. Horrible people, wonderful, happier people, places and things that no longer exist for better or worse... old echoes of the younger lives we used to live. <BR/><BR/>I have never been that close to human death. And I know that the time is drawing near when I will have to deal with it somehow, in some way.Derek Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01555485192723965604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9604161.post-1129745383002883392005-10-19T11:09:00.000-07:002005-10-19T11:09:00.000-07:00This is beautiful and poignant. So moving.I read y...This is beautiful and poignant. So moving.<BR/><BR/>I read your blog regularly but haven't posted before, so now I am doing. Hi :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9604161.post-1129719234046240402005-10-19T03:53:00.000-07:002005-10-19T03:53:00.000-07:00I've just finished reading "True Tales of American...I've just finished reading "True Tales of American Life" (ed. Paul Auster).<BR/><BR/>That piece reminded me of those, but is probably more lyrical, beautiful and sad than any.Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14530845147391401083noreply@blogger.com