hey_kerry raze every time you add a new chapter to "dispatches", it reinforces for me what a powerful portal that blathe is into your days and nights. it's like getting to experience all these vivid, kaleidoscopic memories as they're in the process of being made. it's such a gift to read your words here. always. thank you for taking us into your life and sharing what's in your heart. 220731 ... kerry hey_raze--how lovely, my own blathe! :) i am honored to be here, swapping words and memories and other little gems with all of you. 220801 ... epitome of incomprehensibility Hey! I also wanted to add that I really like what you wrote on new_friend. I wanted to add to it, only I was afraid that my rambles would take it too far away from the title. I definitely relate to the clothes part - non-wrinkled clothes ARE nice clothes, dammit. Sometimes I dress in what I think of as fancy clothes, but they can be wrinkled sometimes because ironing is hard. (One tip is supposedly to hang up a clothing item on the bathroom door when you shower because the steam can ease out wrinkles, but it's never worked spectacularly for me. Mildly, maybe.) And tooth-shaped earrings mean you've got taste (mastication, at least) :) More to the point, I relate to being awkward with new company. Even if they're speaking your first language, they're not, not completely. You understand what they're saying, but you don't understand the context behind their words and they don't understand that behind yours. All that to say you captured that sort of feeling really well. You have this knack for description that puts images and scenes into my mind's-eye. Even if none of us speak exactly the same language. 220802 ... e_o_i (gah, random hyphen not needed) 220802 ... kerry e_o_i, thank you for what you wrote! and i would love to read your rambles... who says a blathe has to stay on-topic, whatever that means? i like to think of blather as being a place without rules. i will try out the steam tip to reduce wrinkles! i actually enjoy ironing, find it kind of soothing and meditative. and i had to really do some online searching but i found a metal retro-looking iron that's so heavy i don't even need to press down. a simple pleasure, i suppose. making friends is absolutely like trying to speak the same language--i like how you put it. i went to a trivia night tonight, really not my scene, and didn't feel totally comfortable until afterward when we were eating ice cream. ice cream is a universal language. 220803 ... raze only you would think to describe radishes as "little haloed planets you can scatter on your plate". i love that. 220820 ... raze are we both morning_blathing at the same time?! ::: does a happy half-asleep dance ::: 220824 ... tender_square your latest on "dispatches" about forgetting made me giggle. i could totally watch a show or a movie i've seen once before and it would be new to me. i can barely remember the plots to books i've just read. 220824 ... kerry raze, indeed, i think we were! i love when that happens. and tender_square: glad i'm not the only one. and it's not even that the show/book/movie is "forgettable," maybe it was amazing and moving, but somehow i (we?) forget it anyway. it used to frustrate me but now i enjoy it. 220824 ... raze i don't want to diminish anything you're going through, or anything you're feeling. i just want to say this: no matter what happens, you will always be a writer. always. even if some days you can't write. even if the words were to run away from you and never come back. though your relationship with your artistry has changed — altered by the cruelty of circumstances beyond your control — the art itself will always be there. because your art is in who you are and how you live your life. and it's beautiful. you're beautiful. please don't ever forget that. you're one of the best human beings i've ever been lucky enough to know. your words rewire my heart and make me a better person. i'm so grateful you're alive. 220829 ... raze you're always here, even when you're not present. the mark you've made on these pages and walls, and on all of us, isn't something that's ever going to fade. thank you for being here. thank you for being you. 230104 ... kerry raze, i'm sending you a blather hug. 230104 ... raze i want to send you one too after reading what you just wrote on pet_sounds. that's so unflinchingly honest and brave. i wanted to look away, but i couldn't. i wish i could have been your friend back then. 230116 ... tender_square reading the vivid contrasts in "running_out_of_stuff_to_talk_about" made me feel like you had been eavesdropping on my own life. i've missed your writing here. 230326 ... raze it's so good to read your words again. 230619 ... kerry thanks, raze (and thanks for the nudge via fruit bat bait). it feels good to be here. 230620 ... e_o_i Hey! I really like what you wrote on "anesthesia" - how a newer memory tied into an older one. And if you were writing about a recent time frame - if you're still recovering from operation-land - I especially wish you some refreshing rest. 230626 ... kerry thanks e_o_i! yep, i recently had an operation to fix my deviated septum and crooked nose. i took a whole week off work and have gotten a lot of reading and tv-watching in! 230628 ... raze i think i might have just missed you, but the thought of blathing at the same time you are always makes me happy. 230925 ... raze "velouria" just made me cry. i've missed you and your words so much. thank you for being here. 231222 ... kerry hopefully happy/tender tears, raze. thanks for the nudge--i've missed all my fellow blatherskites. 231223 ... raze broken record time: goddamn is it good to see you here and read the gorgeous things you write. 240330 what's it to you? who go blather from