hey_nr raze i think i can speak for all of us red folks when i say your words mean an awful lot to all the hearts and minds that call this place home. you capture more emotional truth in a single sentence than most people manage to get at in a whole wall of text. though we might be far from you, our shared joy and pain binds us together. we love you. 230323 ... nr loves in return that brought tears to my ears, which i think i needed. thank you. 230324 ... raze (also, apart_together is really powerful in the way it examines how hard it is to find what we need in another person. i've missed reading you here.) 230616 ... nr thanks as always for the support, raze, and for your kind words on apart_together. also i owe you an email that is forthcoming! i've missed writing here; reading zoe_whittall has helped inspire me to get a few more words down. 230616 ... epitome of incomprehensibility nighttime_beach_blathing has some beautiful images and atmosphere. I felt like I was there. 230702 ... nr thanks e_o_i :) 230703 ... tender_square you've been missed and it's good to see you here. looking forward to further dispatches from the raccoon series. 230805 ... nr thanks tender_square. :) i do often miss this place and wish more hours could be added into the day. raccoon series is the name of someone's stepchild in my half-conscious brain, so let's see if they appear again. 230805 ... raze introvert_vs_extrovert is so thought_provoking. and it's a fascinating glimpse into the way two people who express themselves in very different ways for different reasons can share a lot of the same feelings and fears. also, did you know you wrote three things tonight that, when taken in chronological order, create the phrase "unfair quiet time"? i think there are mysterious forces at work here. smooful forces. 230904 ... e_o_i I also wanted to comment about the introvert/extrovert dialogue (and I forgot last night, gah). My first thought: "It sounds like the two sides of myself talking to each other" - except more coherently, I bet. And your statement on "time" made me think how that can apply to both learning and relationships. 230905 ... nr i'm glad you both found meaning in introvert_vs_extrovert. i've learned more about about the other side through these conversations in the past week than i'd ever thought of before. raze: i did not know that, but it somehow makes sense. i hope the smooful forces stick around. e_o_i: i'd like to see this dialogue between you and you! 230905 ... raze i just wrote something and hit refresh and saw you'd also written something at almost exactly the same time. i have only one thing to say about that: SMOOOOOOOOOO 240530 ... nr HIIIIIIII SMOO JINX (smoojinx? like hijinks? hi to the smoo jinks? okay.) 240530 ... raze that legitimately sounds like the spiffiest jinx ever jinxed. WHAT SUBLIME SORCERY HAVE YOU UNLEASHED? 240530 ... raze i hope you have the greatest time at your gig tonight. all my fingers and toes are crossed in an effort to send all the good vibes (and marimbas) your way. 250413 ... nr thank you kindly! it went pretty well. i was aware of the errors i was making (which i was trying to give myself grace for since i haven't played the songs many times, buuuuut being easy on oneself is something i am not always the best at) but the audience seemed to enjoy it. it was fun having people dancing beside us too. 250413 ... nr also... why is only the i in the word "gig" underlined? 250416 ... raze whoa. i don't think i ever noticed that before. i guess hanging letters like gs and ys don't get underlined when hyperlinks are made here. the blather_quirks are endless, or so it seems... 250416 ... ovenbird What you posted on weird_confessions today made me tear up. You wrapped so much of the complexity of grief into such a small space. It really hit me. 250805 ... nr thank you, ovenbird. that means a lot coming from you! 250806 ... e_o_i I love what you wrote on "snippets" - a story taking shape in a few images. Oh, and it's sorta blather_synchronicity that I was just describing something with the word "snippets" when I ran across your blathe with this title. (One of the underrated_words, I think.) 250910 ... nr thanks e_o_i! i'm trying to practise writing in a more narrative style, or at least as close as i can get to that. "snippets" is indeed a very good and descriptive word. sometimes a lot is too much and you just need a snippet. 250910 ... ovenbird I just wanted to say that your poem/song in progress? on five_minute_creations is stunning. The end slammed right into me. 250923 ... nr thank you so much! it is a first attempt at a song that had a time limit for creation. even in the time we had, it was neat to experiment with lyric-writing, which generally has a bit of a different cadence than anything i've written before. 250923 ... ovenbird Lyric writing DOES seem to bring out the darkness, but I'm a fan. You have some really compelling pieces going! 251008 ... nr thank you kindly, yet again! i always seem to have more success getting words down when i have a time limit (maybe i should have continued to post these under five_minute_creations). i guess pressure makes diamonds that catch the light and help illuminate the creative brain. or something. 251008 ... ovenbird I'm really glad to hear that you're starting to feel a bit better! I've been thinking about you! Shingles sounds absolutely awful. I hope all the worst is over. 251022 ... nr thank you ovenbird. yeah it has many stages, now's is at least not painful. 251022 ... ovenbird Were our insides photographed at almost the same time?! (ct_scan and mri) Hope all the results are a whole lot of nothing to worry about! 251106 ... ovenbird And it's kind of funny--you're the second person to suggest that the technicians might be vampires! 251106 ... nr my mri was actually years ago; your post about the ct_scan just reminded me of it. but agreed, fingers crossed for your results! 251106 what's it to you? who go blather from