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[rivers_bend]

Sorry, but it is one of those days.

I've just been reading one of my assignments, 'Giovanni's Apartment' by Sam D'Allesandro, from his book The Wild Creatures. It was amazing to the point that I went onto Amazon Marketplace and bought not only that book but two others. Including one which is letters between him and one of the Professors at SFSU, which she compiled after his death. He was evidently one of those men about whom you think, he was the most beautiful man I ever knew, and that kind of charisma shines through his writing. It was the kind of story I wanted to drape over me, roll around in, drink down, and have with me always.

The kind that simultaneously makes you long to be a writer and never want to write again.

Comments

[luvsabitch.livejournal.com]

I love reading all your posts. They are like a window onto another world for me.

I feel like I am drowning in a sea of mumminess and work and blah. When i see you've posted it is like a lighthouse beam that gives me hope! I know this is lunatic meanderings but I'm feeling sorry for myself tonight and I do love to hear what you are doing.

I had poems published once and used to write all the time, now all I write is crappy slash. And it's raining here, it always rains in England. Tell me again about the hummingbirds outside your window!

[rivers-bend.livejournal.com]

You know, I've just been sitting here looking out the window at the hummingbird and the bee who keep fighting for dominance at the hummingbird feeder. Looking at the endlessly blue sky behind them, and thinking, I've been here for three and a half months, and it's only rained once. And that was barely a drizzle. The sky has been blue every day for weeks. And there are things about my life in England that I miss with a sharp and burning painfulness, but what an amazing thing I've done for myself coming back here and going back to school.

My life was years of morose and grey and awful, and I've changed that. So there is definitely hope. :)

I look at the people on my course who are 40 or older and it makes me really happy. Even when I'm jealous that they've had their kids already and aren't putting that off to study.

It's so lovely to have you say my posts are like a lighthouse beam. Thank you!

[luvsabitch.livejournal.com]

Thank you - for the hummingbirds and the hope!

[victorian-tweed.livejournal.com]

Ah the joys of discovering a new (and absorbing) author!

The kind that simultaneously makes you long to be a writer and never want to write again.

I so know what you mean by that! It applies to art with me, as well as writing!