tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11123046.post3225137097337110002..comments2023-08-10T01:09:49.154-07:00Comments on Saints and Spinners: Poetry Friday: Putting the Good Things AwaySaints and Spinnershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08532215042953620628noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11123046.post-88963036109910430292007-07-07T15:47:00.000-07:002007-07-07T15:47:00.000-07:00My dear Alkelda, I am not so good at editing my po...My dear Alkelda, I am not so good at editing my posts. The middle line, thanking my daughter, was supposed to come at the end of the post. So sorry.Melangellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07562810093942534232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11123046.post-89841147926735690842007-07-07T15:44:00.000-07:002007-07-07T15:44:00.000-07:00I feel really rotten that I once made my daughter ...I feel really rotten that I once made my daughter feel bad that while I was gone (in India, la-la-la) she had given a dinner party using her grandmother's good dishes.<BR/><BR/>My dear mother had treasured those dishes and had managed to keep them all intact through many years of moving from Nebraska to India to Kansas to Indiana. Then I got them.<BR/><BR/>To my daughter, if she ever reads this, thank you.<BR/><BR/>My daughter did not break them. And ever since her sorrow and fury and disappointment that I was upset, and particularly since finding this poem which I discovered in my Poetry Therapy training, I have tried to USE the dishes that I have inherited from several generations back instead of hording them. They are CROCKERY. My memories and the connections that they invoke are what is sacred.Melangellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07562810093942534232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11123046.post-7233414078427350322007-07-07T08:58:00.000-07:002007-07-07T08:58:00.000-07:00Cloudscome: I'll have to dig it out of my juvenali...Cloudscome: I'll have to dig it out of my juvenalia somewhere in the basement.Saints and Spinnershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04733517166056974501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11123046.post-4532592017041338482007-07-07T04:51:00.000-07:002007-07-07T04:51:00.000-07:00Beautiful poem! I'd really love to see yours next....Beautiful poem! I'd really love to see yours next. And I have my Norton's all lined up on my living room bookshelves.Andromeda Jazmonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12355192738014962965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11123046.post-63471499809302948982007-07-06T23:15:00.000-07:002007-07-06T23:15:00.000-07:00Tadmack: I've been lugging those Norton anthologie...<B>Tadmack</B>: I've been lugging those Norton anthologies around since I left college! I'm glad you appreciated the poem. I love how Poetry Friday distills the wide range of poems into weekly installments.Saints and Spinnershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04733517166056974501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11123046.post-84546347604608511142007-07-06T21:02:00.000-07:002007-07-06T21:02:00.000-07:00I love that other people still have their Norton a...I love that other people still have their Norton anthologies. Just. Love. It.<BR/><BR/>And this poem made me sniffle.<BR/>What kind of life are you leading if no day is ever good enough for the good things? At some point the junk you're packing up and lugging around from china cabinet to china cabinet gets to be too much... I mean, whatever happened to "use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without?" At some point, we have to use what we have.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for a solidly good thought today. And I shall look up other Marge Piercy poems as well.tanita✿davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01671822274852087499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11123046.post-79187705475274810192007-07-06T16:12:00.000-07:002007-07-06T16:12:00.000-07:00Schelle: Ah, yes, you Aussies and your unfair adva...<B>Schelle</B>: Ah, yes, you Aussies and your unfair advantage of the Southern Hemisphere! <BR/><BR/><B>Goddess</B>: Good for your friend! And good for you for taking her sage advice. The only reason I didn't buy the fancy green glasses from France last time I got glasses was because they had the peripheral vision of a flea. Instead, I got the cheaper but still fun green glasses. And now, our whole family has green glasses. We are Green Lanterns.<BR/><BR/><B>Jules</B>: Me too! I just have the poems in my Norton Anthology. Though now with this wide wild newfangled internet thing...Saints and Spinnershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04733517166056974501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11123046.post-286437521460238362007-07-06T13:18:00.000-07:002007-07-06T13:18:00.000-07:00That is a great poem. I love her "To Be of Use," w...That is a great poem. I love her "To Be of Use," which I believe is somewhere on our blog. I must get more of her stuff. Thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11123046.post-22834926207375976092007-07-06T09:03:00.000-07:002007-07-06T09:03:00.000-07:00That's a beautiful, thought-provoking poem. I wou...That's a beautiful, thought-provoking poem. I would love to read yours if you ever care to share it (um, and everything else you wrote in that class...)Lone Star Mahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14339475499304565638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11123046.post-65034850306343759372007-07-06T08:13:00.000-07:002007-07-06T08:13:00.000-07:00When I first moved to Seattle, I went to the eye d...When I first moved to Seattle, I went to the eye doctor to get some new glasses. When it came time to chose frames, I naturally gravitated toward the cheap-o section. My friend said, "why are you only looking at the cheap ones? You should spend the most money on the things you wear everyday." <BR/><BR/>It was a revelation to me. I walked out sporting a new pair of Ralph Laurens.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11123046.post-8922621277427566992007-07-05T22:54:00.000-07:002007-07-05T22:54:00.000-07:00I know old ladies like that too - my grandmother w...I know old ladies like that too - my grandmother was, and my mother-in-law... not my mother though - she always insists we should use the best china for everyday because what is the point of having nice things if you don't use them? I sit on the fence of that debate :)<BR/><BR/>And you WERE first - I posted my poems this morning, gaining an unfair advantage from the time difference - I have just come out from putting Wombat to bed for his nap and checked to see if Farm School had posted so I could leave my link - but Becky had already been out and found me!Mythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03243071725565727650noreply@blogger.com