Comments on: Up North http://www.brookeparkhurst.com/2005/11/09/up-north/ Writer. Home Cook Extraordinaire. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:37:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: stretch td http://www.brookeparkhurst.com/2005/11/09/up-north/#comment-971 Fri, 11 Nov 2005 19:23:00 +0000 http://www.brookeparkhurst.com/2005/11/09/up-north/#comment-971 LOL. Belle keeps time in dog hours. ;) LOL. Belle keeps time in dog hours. ;)

]]> by: Belle http://www.brookeparkhurst.com/2005/11/09/up-north/#comment-970 Fri, 11 Nov 2005 18:14:00 +0000 http://www.brookeparkhurst.com/2005/11/09/up-north/#comment-970 Back at my kitchen table writing the new post--promise! Thank y'all for asking, too sweet. Back at my kitchen table writing the new post–promise! Thank y’all for asking, too sweet.

]]> by: Leigh http://www.brookeparkhurst.com/2005/11/09/up-north/#comment-969 Fri, 11 Nov 2005 18:11:00 +0000 http://www.brookeparkhurst.com/2005/11/09/up-north/#comment-969 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! 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!

]]> by: WestEnder http://www.brookeparkhurst.com/2005/11/09/up-north/#comment-968 Fri, 11 Nov 2005 09:17:00 +0000 http://www.brookeparkhurst.com/2005/11/09/up-north/#comment-968 Just having a little fun! Just having a little fun!

]]> by: Leigh http://www.brookeparkhurst.com/2005/11/09/up-north/#comment-967 Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:46:00 +0000 http://www.brookeparkhurst.com/2005/11/09/up-north/#comment-967 Grammaticus--well said. Westender--could you be more of a smart ass? Thanks for the laugh. And Belle-welcome "home"... Grammaticus–well said.

Westender–could you be more of a smart ass? Thanks for the laugh.

And Belle-welcome “home”…

]]> by: Ale http://www.brookeparkhurst.com/2005/11/09/up-north/#comment-966 Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:41:00 +0000 http://www.brookeparkhurst.com/2005/11/09/up-north/#comment-966 ok- hour is up!! :) ok- hour is up!! :)

]]> by: WestEnder http://www.brookeparkhurst.com/2005/11/09/up-north/#comment-965 Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:23:00 +0000 http://www.brookeparkhurst.com/2005/11/09/up-north/#comment-965 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. 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.

]]> by: Grammaticus http://www.brookeparkhurst.com/2005/11/09/up-north/#comment-964 Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:21:00 +0000 http://www.brookeparkhurst.com/2005/11/09/up-north/#comment-964 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. 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.

]]> by: Grammaticus http://www.brookeparkhurst.com/2005/11/09/up-north/#comment-963 Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:03:00 +0000 http://www.brookeparkhurst.com/2005/11/09/up-north/#comment-963 This post has been removed by the author. This post has been removed by the author.

]]> by: Clare http://www.brookeparkhurst.com/2005/11/09/up-north/#comment-962 Thu, 10 Nov 2005 01:30:00 +0000 http://www.brookeparkhurst.com/2005/11/09/up-north/#comment-962 Welcome back Belle. I am looking forward to reading your next post. Welcome back Belle. I am looking forward to reading your next post.

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