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[avevale_intelligencer]

Still here. Trying to write a fanfic which if it takes off I shall probably post episodically, to general confusion. Feeling like I'm going through the motions.

The absence of my music kit has not, as I imagined, provoked a mad rush of ideas for music. So much so that I'm now worried that there won't be any even when I've got it back.

Thinking about many things. The way we simplify our lives by the symbols we use. Progress, the straight line from past to future, no deviation possible, no blind alleys ever, regression always a bad bad thing we must avoid at all costs. Or the great circle, returning always to the same point, travelling always along the same path, no change possible, no libration, the only alternative the outer darkness of oblivion or the inner darkness of nirvana. The family tree, always tracing back to the one pairing where we decide it started, then branching neatly in pairings back to the future and us, ignoring all the other trees that twine around and criss-cross ours; not so much a tree in a forest as a single bush in a box thicket, and even that is over-simplifying because the bushes grow into each other. Symbols make things easier, but there's always a price.

I still haven't had the courage to listen to Talis' album all the way through, or to formulate my response to the way her songs make me feel.

So, just a bit down over here.

But, America has taken a tiny baby step towards fairer health care provision for most if not all, or so I gather. I rejoice.

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[keristor.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

[grey-lady.livejournal.com]

The family tree, always tracing back to the one pairing where we decide it started, then branching neatly in pairings back to the future and us, ignoring all the other trees that twine around and criss-cross ours; not so much a tree in a forest as a single bush in a box thicket

I've always described mine as a "family bush / shrub" because of its complexity.

And *hugs*.

[tattercoats.livejournal.com]

Skip Worlds End. Skip Wolf, and skip Jam.

You might like Time and Tide. And Jonathan's Coffeehouse is really just a historical romp.

Blackthorn Winter is meant to be a quietly positive ending, honest.

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

When I listen to it, I will not skip a single one. They are beautiful, beautiful songs, and heartfelt advocacy of what I know to be right. Don't let my pusillanimity and selfishness affect you in the slightest.

[bardling.livejournal.com]

Blackthorn Winter is meant to be a quietly positive ending, honest.
A winter lived through is followed by spring...

*hugs*, Zan

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

I'd hoped to be down last weekend, and I was, but in mood and energy rather than in physical relocation to Wiltshire :-(

I *believe* I'm not scheduled to do anything this weekend, would that be a good time to come down and drop off music kit? (need to double check diary)

It sounds like your mind is going around in circles and in those situations I find it very easy to spiral down ... music may help take you mind off things.

hugs

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

It would be lovely to see you, in any case. I knew you would need time to recover from your triumphant US tour. :)

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

Huggity hug.

[aunty_marion]

*hugs* I have your 'To the Landing' CD in the player right now, along with Vixy & Tony's 'Thirteen' and 'Dr Jane's Remains' (for, er, maximal contrastiness? *g*), and it's still sounding good. At some point I must put it onto the computer so it can be transferred to Orac.

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

[HUGS]

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

I'm quietly rejoicing about the health care bill too. I was working at the Rural Clinic this morning (a few mornings a month I answer the phones there) and one of the lab techs asked what I thought it meant, and I explained the basics of it as I understood it, and said it was imperfect but I thought it would turn out to be good.

And she said, you know, it would be a wonderful thing if it put us out of business because nobody needed our help anymore.

I think so too.

(The Rural Clinic is staffed by doctors and dentists who take a day off their regular practices, and come in and see patients for free--the nurses, lab techs and receptionists are all doing likewise. We do help a lot of people, but we have to turn people away all the time--sometimes people who really need the help--because we don't have enough appointments.)

[soren-nyrond.livejournal.com]

*Hugs* from us both.

Do you need a Bear mailing down ? (He will, I'm afraid, expect feeding, and will decline kitty-food. He will also be averse to doing HouseWork. I'm sorry)

On a more general note, the Spring should be along soon -- the lambies and new flowers ought to cheer you up. And your music *will* flow again. I know you: you'd rather make optimistic music than something than involves having to say "not everybody dies".

best wishes & love