Posts by Jolisa
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Busytown: What was lost, in reply to Rob Stowell,
Oh that is a great, great piece of writing! She is tough stuff.
Not sure which is my favourite bit, there are so many: "...stepping on Condoleezza Rice's foot along the way"? Or "The whore in the blue dress is playing with the first dog"? Brilliant.
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Busytown: What was lost, in reply to Percy Flage,
Oh, that's ghastly news-making. Doorstopping the bereaved is just bad form, anywhere, any time.
Ironically, I was about to post this piece by 9/11 widow, Marian Fontana, on the emotional toll of being a public symbol of a shared disaster (not just her, but her son).
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Busytown: What was lost, in reply to Kate Hannah,
I’m glancing at the scrawled words of Toni Morrison’s I keep above my computer: “make it as political as hell. And make it irrevocably beautiful.”
Words to live, and write, by!
To be honest, I'm stunned by everyone's responses. For once I didn't rewrite and reread and rewrite again -- I just wrote, without thinking of whether would make any sense on the page. (OK, my partner read over it for me and fixed my mistakes, then I sent it to my sis, who immediately sent back her incredible photos by way of encouragement to actually post it.)
I'm really glad it has struck a chord, and thank you all for adding your harmonic resonances.
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Busytown: What was lost, in reply to James Butler,
I guess it’s one of our jobs as parents to lower the burdens of life as slowly as possible onto the shoulders of our children, while trying to ensure that they’re bearing most of the weight by the time we’re no longer able to hold it for them.
James, that's really beautifully put. Thank you.
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Busytown: What was lost, in reply to Paul Campbell,
and our son was now 13 and draft age wasn't that far away
Ah yes. The other thing that's goddam American about our boys. Still no draft -- will there ever be one again, or is it politically impossible at this point? Although with enlisted soldiers being deployed multiple times, you have to wonder if it will become necessary.
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Hard News: You know what ..., in reply to Bart Janssen,
And most importantly did you ask where to get good coffee in Utah?
Jack Mormon Coffee Co (known locally as 'beans worth roasting for').
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Hard News: You know what ..., in reply to Danielle,
if you listened to NPR, watched public television
And *that’s* the problem with your argument, right there. ;)
But I did!
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I don’t think 911 was much of a surprise inside the USA either
I do. Because it was. No amount of Monday-morning quarterbacking ten years on can change the fact that, for everyone but a tiny handful of people at the very top, it was a shock attack with zero warning whatsoever.
[ETA: I don't mean the people at the top knew exactly what was going to happen, but rather that they had fair warning that something was brewing]
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Echoing Danielle's earlier point about the composition of the crowd outside the White House: college kids, pumped up about nothing in particular, kind of being idiots.
The New York manifestations, on the other hand, sound more sombre and interrogative. I'm trying to get my head around this enough to blog coherently about it.
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Another one for Down in Splendour. Gorgeous, gorgeous.
And since Russell's too shy to link to his tribute to Wayne from 5 years ago, I will.