ways of escape

[gurdonark]

asphalteden sent me a nice bit of reading material, entirely appropriate to the moment and yet unexpected. I am grateful. This will give me something to read on my upcoming brief business trip--a moment of escape from figures and business matters.

We finished the Shipping News video last night. This movie, combined with the novel The Colony of Dreams I read some time ago, renewed my interest in Newfoundland. I wish I could find time to escape there for a trip. In my mind it has a haunting quality, uncontrolled and yet beckoning.

sushimonkey posted a link to an on line coloring
program, and only a firm recollection of things to do prevented me from giving it a quick try. Coloring reminds me of first grade, when they posted the pictures we students had drawn by the principal's office. Mine were stick eagles. My best friend did a very lifelike take on the Iwo Jima photo.
Some people are born with it; some people are not. I think it is unfortunate when stuff like that pops up in memory, because my childhood was in the main extraordinarily happy. But remembering personal failings is so addictive. I would rather escape into warmer memories, like coasting on a bike at breakneck speed down the road on Bowen Hill, the tallest peak in town, but really just a large hill. How about those two home runs in Little League? Maybe winning the certificate for best student in Physical Education in tenth grade? A life of achievement, indeed. I'm a bit abashed by anything self-salutary or didactic I have ever said. Anywhere. Here. Elsewhere.

Might I have made different choices, and the goddesses cut me different thread? Ask them--they have the scissors. Me, I've got work to do, and a mighty thunderstorm is starting, which makes me ever so slightly high inside.

Comments

"Listen. That Golden Silence."

[asphalteden.livejournal.com]

"The Engine of Desire" is one hell of a story. I hope you enjoy it. The rest is good too; especially the Silverberg Via Roma story.

Didn't mean to attribute the Tori Amos with pretty girl story to you! That's what happens when you read all the comments quickly, and at once....

I want you to tell me in all truth what you think of the magazine, when you are done with it. I'm trying to explore new audiences for our magazine, and I think a person who likes science fiction, but is not a "science fiction person" would be a valuable reader to have. You are also extremely well read and I think it would be good to have that angle of opinion out of you too....

Re: "Listen. That Golden Silence."

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I love sci fi, but am not really a "sci fi guy" anymore. I'm eager to read it.
I'll let you know as soon as I have read each one what I think. and thanks! it was a nice and thoughtful thing for you to send!