Comments on: Alive

By: tracey

tracey — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:50:22 +0000

brilliant!
it think it’s time you and I schedule that cup of coffee!
got any free time next week?

By: Nards

Nards — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:15:43 +0000

It took me darn near 50 years to learn to be alive. Carly Simon sang “Suffering was the only thing that made me feel I was alive”. I’m done with that. Now…
…“I haven’t got time for the pain” -
Thanks for sharing – Nards

By: Megan

Megan — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:28:52 +0000

WOW! This was soul-stirring. I’ve read a few posts about squam, and this one made me feel like I actually got to experience a little bit of it myself! Your handwriting tells me how utterly blissed out you really were at that moment! I feel like I’m lifted up with you in the clouds, hummming, alive, too. Thank you for that! Thank you for every little thing you do…

By: Celeste

Celeste — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:15:44 +0000

I have read this twice…and now I am quite sure I am positively humming…at first I thought it was the half pot of coffee I’ve drank tonight…but now, it is most definately your words…:)
Many a thank-you for this…

By: Thea

Thea — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:43:37 +0000

hee hee
I came back to read this again, and realize I was so moved the first time, that it just flooded my brain and I didn’t write a comment.
There is something about you darling that makes my soul shudder blissfully.
I cannot explain properly how much listening to you, reading you feels like I have hooked up a firehose to a life line of courage, inspiration, validation, and clarity.
I have found myself pretty speachless and nervous to try to write how I felt after those days at Squam.
I will never forget, looping my arm in yours on the way to the dining hall, for the first time. Just knowing that I had made a friend for life.
I cherish you so much.
XO

By: lisa

lisa — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:51:27 +0000

oh this is so lovely. today I have a work retreat. we read “a whole new mind” and I am assigned to the discussion group that covers MEANING. I want to share your writing, I hope this is okay.

By: pixie

pixie — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:02:39 +0000

how can anyone not feel alive after reading this post?? thank you for your unfaltering enthusiasm in this community, sister. you lead even when you are a student. how thrilling to know you!xoxo p

By: Tracie~My Petite Maison

Tracie~My Petite Maison — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:53:21 +0000

I feel alive just reading this knowing that another person in this small little world we all share is alive with creativity, wonder and a sense to forgive as well as so many other things.
I am here from Sherry’s Esprit d’Art and I’m so happy she directed me this way – oh that makes me feel “alive” too – creative women sharing and pointing me in the right direction, a direction of sharing JOY.
~Tracie

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:57:28 +0000

Couldn’t, no way no how, have said it better. Thank you for your words, at SQUAM, here, and in your book; which is like a warm chocolatey-chip cookie and a tall glass of milk–delicious and comforting–that I read right before falling asleep at night. It makes my dreams brighter . . .
thank you.

By: Fatemeh

Fatemeh — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 05:58:02 +0000

Forgiveness despite our pain!
Pushing our boundries!
These 2 sentences speaks with my heart
Thanks