tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27400573.post114965718645405054..comments2023-05-03T07:20:48.582-07:00Comments on Lightning Rod Woman: bye byeTealrathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12433499845511810541noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27400573.post-1150419418963530522006-06-15T17:56:00.000-07:002006-06-15T17:56:00.000-07:00thanks Bob. I'm glad you got something out of my b...thanks Bob. I'm glad you got something out of my blog. it makes me happy that both my friends and people I don't know read my writings. a question- what is your interpretation of the sub-text that you speak of?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27400573.post-1149734079597096612006-06-07T19:34:00.000-07:002006-06-07T19:34:00.000-07:00Hello Kristina,I had looked up a few friends blogs...Hello Kristina,<BR/>I had looked up a few friends blogs, and had a some time to spend when I came to yours. I read three or four posts, bookmarked it and went outside and sat quietly by myself in my back yard, where I have created sort of a dream landscape/garden, with koi ponds, waterfalls and streams. I have always told myself that my garden was a refuge and sanctuary from the rest of the world and its troubles, both general as well as personal, but after reading your thought, memories, and present actions, maybe I should just think of it as a safe place to reflect upon what I don't know of the world and its evils.<BR/>I realize you are not writing to or for me, and perhaps you consider me an intruder for breaking into a corner of your world. If this is the case, let me know this and I will stay away from your site and not bother you.<BR/>My life is one of being actively involved in the arts, primarily visual (I consider my garden more of a living sculpture - it doesn't much follow anything Better Homes and Gardens would feature) and I am also a playwright and published short story author, as well as an actor and director. I tell you this because what you write has touched me in so many places and on so many levels, that I do not yet know its impact. <BR/>I suppose it is easy to respond to the primary narrative: "Who they were, what they did to you and your brother, and what they continue to do, both through action as well as inaction (there are, as you well know, both evils of commission as well as omission)." But for me, the horror is also the sub-text, the back-story if you will - it is what you don't say that my mind, soul and heart narrates back to me from a place not literal but just as real.<BR/>While this certainly was not your intention, your words have strength and impact well beyond you own circle of family and friends, and will cause change, and perhaps some new forms of positive creation.<BR/>Thank you very much for sharing, and again, I apologize if this is an untoward intrusion.<BR/>Bobartquest1https://www.blogger.com/profile/12041335296170184698noreply@blogger.com