Up North
My hair still smells of chicory and pulled pork and my tongue is thick w. vowels and southernisms but I’m FINALLY back in the city–settled in my little apartment in SoHo! Allow me an hour or so to unpack and then’ll I’ll write a post…
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November 9th, 2005 at 11:51 am
Welcome back to civilization.
November 9th, 2005 at 4:07 pm
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November 9th, 2005 at 5:30 pm
Welcome back Belle. I am looking forward to reading your next post.
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November 10th, 2005 at 2:21 am
These voyages of yours, metaphorical and literal, hold my attention. I was born in the South, went away to be educated (civilized?) in New England, and returned to Louisiana to work. Mark Twain said one does not escape from the South but to the South. I think he’s onto something, yet urban Southerners are likely to have some traffic with the national malaise, a kind of deracination that calls into question the antique values. Without these, Southerners search restively for something to sustain their complacence. Like the Homeric prototype, we long to return home, but the destination recedes into abstractions. The objects of our nostalgia — landscapes and those who dwell in them — will never be as they once were. Maybe we see that they were never as they seemed to be.
November 10th, 2005 at 7:23 am
Gentle Grammaticus,
Your comment enveloped me like the memory of a cool, summertime breeze dangling the leaves of our grand, lakeside willow tree like silent wind chimes. We’d sit on the porch and sip our sweet tea, me and Clarabelle, and dodge each others looks, unsure of our own feelings as much as each other’s. And then one day old man McCreevey came out with his shotgun and blew her away.
November 10th, 2005 at 9:41 am
ok- hour is up!!
November 10th, 2005 at 9:46 am
Grammaticus–well said.
Westender–could you be more of a smart ass? Thanks for the laugh.
And Belle-welcome “home”…
November 11th, 2005 at 1:17 am
Just having a little fun!
November 11th, 2005 at 10:11 am
Belle, hope you are well rested and ready to write. I’m sure I’m not alone in eagerly awaiting your next story
Westender–I know you were kidding and it really did make me laugh!
P.S. thanks for the spell check…appreciate it!
November 11th, 2005 at 10:14 am
Back at my kitchen table writing the new post–promise! Thank y’all for asking, too sweet.
November 11th, 2005 at 11:23 am
LOL. Belle keeps time in dog hours.