“It doesn’t really matter who said it – it’s so obviously true. Bevore you can write anything, you have to notice something.”
― John Irving
If I were to write about what I noticed, I would write about the cat, one princess by name and disposition, uncharacteristically quiet (she likes to call out both her needs and my inattention from the doorway) in my office looking for the right shadow to jump at. I notice my friends online joking, laughing, complaining, healing and hurting each in turn and cycle, all teaching me so much. I could write about the easy feeling I have from a rather wonderful evening of good food and conversation with some amazing friends from which my three notes to myself read
1) Right Use of Language
2) Game Theory and Schools
3) The Ivory Tower Force
each of which could lead to a short written piece.
I could contemplate the tarot reading I did today for friends. I tried something I don’t do very often. Rather than lay the cards out in any kind of tableau, I did a synchronicity reading, letting cards come as they would. I find this type of thing works well when I am doing an online reading where the person being read for can not shuffle the cards themselves. In this case the cards came out pertinent to the situation. I don’t do readings very often anymore, preferring to use the cards for purposes of meditation and contemplation. When I do a reading for someone I are giving them access to information that they have chosen not to give themselves in another way. The information is filtered through my consciousness which makes me responsible for what the person does with the information. But some people I don’t say no to and as I said this was one I feel relatively good about.
Blessings, G
I wrote this wonderful comment for you and WordPress ate it. Two days in a row it has eaten three things I have written. One that took me over two hours to write. Your comment that took almost a half hour to get just right and earlier quotes I had placed on a post preparing it to be published. Now, I admittedly rewrote the two hour piece today and it was exceedingly much better but then yesterdays was quite good also. Do you believe in being haunted? I came to tell you that the video you saw was accidentally Published but I didn’t push the button. That’s okay. If you hadn’t liked it I wouldn’t have known it was there. Imagine my surprise when I saw that you had liked it and I saw the title. It was meant to be part of a post I had actually just started working on an hour earlier to be published sometime next week. I need to do some research that may take some time plus I have several posts that are ahead of it to be published. It is the need to create when the muse presents me with something that strikes me as intriguing and I think it would make a great post and something I want to investigate. Inspiration comes from different directions all the time. I feel sometimes like I am juggling, My book that I publish a section of once a week, i am working on that 7 days week. Doing something for one part while writing a poem for another part or choosing a piece of music or an illustration. It is really fun and sometimes quite serious working on it. It stretches my imagination. I am working off of a manuscript but I am totally writing from scratch right now. It is a vast endeavor.
Now that I wrote all that, I wanted to tell you if I can remember what I wrote in the first comment that the Sarah Polley video has been made to disappear temporarily. As I said earlier it will reappear with the full post and article next week. I have been following Sarah’s career since she was about 8 yrs old in front of the camera then and as she has gotten older from both sides of the camera. Her directing is amazing. I love all her films.
I mentioned in the eaten comment that I am very interested in your developing Tarot Deck. I recently gave my partner for her birthday a new Tarot Deck just released. The Illuminati Deck. Beautiful and you can see the symbolism effect of the Rider Deck in them, though they are more realistic mixed with artistic painting. You are brave to do readings. I stopped cold a while ago. Too much came through which was disturbing and causing me overload. I am too highly sensitive to the energies around me. Need to wear shades and ear buds with the music up loud whenever I leave the house. Feel too much from other people. You sound like you have that kind of reception yourself.
I love GARP & John Irving. Recently did a post on both. Love his philosophy on writing. He is more British in his attitudes than American and all its need for happy endings and nothing about what is real. When I first read GARP I realized he shocked me at first but as I read other of his novels I realized he was just expressing what happened in real life. When real life happens to you, it is shocking, and you are not prepared for it. I’ve experienced too many of those shocks. I now realize you can’t prepare for real life. It would be too exhausting.
Your art is colourful and magical. And it amazes me every time I see something new. I liked you comment about noticing. I notice things all the time. Too many things sometimes. I would suppose that helps if one is a writer. The book I am writing one day a week on “the secret keeper” that I am taking from a manuscript I am totally rewriting, it is quite a challenge but I find it fun and demanding and wild. It is a work or art for me. It has everything I love to work with and play with. I get to create stories and illustrate and create a musical score, And make up characters who do what I write for them to do. It could go on forever but it is actually the prequel to a screenplay that I am working on. So someday it will catch up to that point in time and then will come to a close but that is going to be awhile from now. So now I get to play and jump around from one part to another like a juggler or a butterfly flitting from a poem to a song to a letter to a setting. It all is so magical and fun and serious and enlightening. Well, I think I have made up for what WordPress ate earlier. I hope you don’t mind that I wrote such a long comment. Making up for lost time. I am getting better and in much less pain today. G, have a great day Jk 😎
It does me well to hear that things are going better for you.
John Irving has been a great influence on me. He writes the most bizarre and true to life characters. When the movie came out my stepmother kept saying how much Garp reminded her of me 🙂
John Irving is an inspiration, I believe it is his quirky characters that make reading him so desirable. Garp and Jennie Fields were my first. I definitely can see the Garp in you. The deep thinker who has his close following. Testing life. Creating art. Questioning and becoming aware of the world and trying to support and make it a better place just living it right the best way possible. Garp. G for Garp and G for Gary. Garp fits you. One wild book and one wild ride filled and overflowing. 😎 Jk
Knots by G A Rosenberg
I wrote this wonderful comment for you and WordPress ate it. Two days in a row it has eaten three things I have written. One that took me over two hours to write. Your comment that took almost a half hour to get just right and earlier quotes I had placed on a post preparing it to be published. Now, I admittedly rewrote the two hour piece today and it was exceedingly much better but then yesterdays was quite good also. Do you believe in being haunted? I came to tell you that the video you saw was accidentally Published but I didn’t push the button. That’s okay. If you hadn’t liked it I wouldn’t have known it was there. Imagine my surprise when I saw that you had liked it and I saw the title. It was meant to be part of a post I had actually just started working on an hour earlier to be published sometime next week. I need to do some research that may take some time plus I have several posts that are ahead of it to be published. It is the need to create when the muse presents me with something that strikes me as intriguing and I think it would make a great post and something I want to investigate. Inspiration comes from different directions all the time. I feel sometimes like I am juggling, My book that I publish a section of once a week, i am working on that 7 days week. Doing something for one part while writing a poem for another part or choosing a piece of music or an illustration. It is really fun and sometimes quite serious working on it. It stretches my imagination. I am working off of a manuscript but I am totally writing from scratch right now. It is a vast endeavor.
Now that I wrote all that, I wanted to tell you if I can remember what I wrote in the first comment that the Sarah Polley video has been made to disappear temporarily. As I said earlier it will reappear with the full post and article next week. I have been following Sarah’s career since she was about 8 yrs old in front of the camera then and as she has gotten older from both sides of the camera. Her directing is amazing. I love all her films.
I mentioned in the eaten comment that I am very interested in your developing Tarot Deck. I recently gave my partner for her birthday a new Tarot Deck just released. The Illuminati Deck. Beautiful and you can see the symbolism effect of the Rider Deck in them, though they are more realistic mixed with artistic painting. You are brave to do readings. I stopped cold a while ago. Too much came through which was disturbing and causing me overload. I am too highly sensitive to the energies around me. Need to wear shades and ear buds with the music up loud whenever I leave the house. Feel too much from other people. You sound like you have that kind of reception yourself.
I love GARP & John Irving. Recently did a post on both. Love his philosophy on writing. He is more British in his attitudes than American and all its need for happy endings and nothing about what is real. When I first read GARP I realized he shocked me at first but as I read other of his novels I realized he was just expressing what happened in real life. When real life happens to you, it is shocking, and you are not prepared for it. I’ve experienced too many of those shocks. I now realize you can’t prepare for real life. It would be too exhausting.
Your art is colourful and magical. And it amazes me every time I see something new. I liked you comment about noticing. I notice things all the time. Too many things sometimes. I would suppose that helps if one is a writer. The book I am writing one day a week on “the secret keeper” that I am taking from a manuscript I am totally rewriting, it is quite a challenge but I find it fun and demanding and wild. It is a work or art for me. It has everything I love to work with and play with. I get to create stories and illustrate and create a musical score, And make up characters who do what I write for them to do. It could go on forever but it is actually the prequel to a screenplay that I am working on. So someday it will catch up to that point in time and then will come to a close but that is going to be awhile from now. So now I get to play and jump around from one part to another like a juggler or a butterfly flitting from a poem to a song to a letter to a setting. It all is so magical and fun and serious and enlightening. Well, I think I have made up for what WordPress ate earlier. I hope you don’t mind that I wrote such a long comment. Making up for lost time. I am getting better and in much less pain today. G, have a great day Jk 😎
It does me well to hear that things are going better for you.
John Irving has been a great influence on me. He writes the most bizarre and true to life characters. When the movie came out my stepmother kept saying how much Garp reminded her of me 🙂
John Irving is an inspiration, I believe it is his quirky characters that make reading him so desirable. Garp and Jennie Fields were my first. I definitely can see the Garp in you. The deep thinker who has his close following. Testing life. Creating art. Questioning and becoming aware of the world and trying to support and make it a better place just living it right the best way possible. Garp. G for Garp and G for Gary. Garp fits you. One wild book and one wild ride filled and overflowing. 😎 Jk
Thank you so much… Cider House Rules is my favourite Irving book
I have a princess kitty as well! 😉
Mine is quite warm and wonderful yet quite demanding