I feel like I took in so much from the speakers, the estuary group and just talking with other people. I will need some time to process it all. It seems like you are too in this piece. I love what you wrote. It really resonates.
Man, this is so incredibly spot on, and beautiful. Thank you. So many of my own vague thoughts crystallized here. Maybe I’m projecting, but it also seems to share the strangely mixed tone of melancholy and deep gratitude I’m feeling in the wake of the conference.
If you haven’t yet read the novel Laurus, you should - Arseny’s arc and the conclusion echo your proposed narrative.
Yes, I am feeling just that. I am feeling a deep pull to take this all with an intense sobriety of mind. And even the strange cloud melancholy that hangs over me amidst bursts of love and affection, I cannot help but feel it is a blessing in keeping me in sobriety of mind. As it happens, Grey, Laurus was one of two books I bought at the conference. Started years ago but I’m wanting dive in again and finish.
Again nailing the words for how I feel. Had an interaction this morning where I tried to describe the beauty I witnessed at the conference and was met with “haha only you would go to something like that.” That’ll keep you sober.
That Laurus was one of those two books somehow doesn’t surprise me. Definitely stick with it through the “slower” parts, the conclusion is 100x worth it.
Seconded, read Laurus. My goodness, is it beautifully relevant. It even partakes of the strange mix of deep joyful melancholy. Not to mention pleasingly kumbaya...
Write this story. I can totally imagine an opening going from, her explanation of her life leading up to that moment, to the actual meeting of the couple and the contact negotiations. It's a great idea.
Also, as a (mostly) outside observer, I think you're totally right about the TLC.
1Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars. 2Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth.
3And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads. 4His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her Child as soon as it was born. 5She bore a male Child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And her Child was caught up to God and His throne. 6Then the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that they should feed her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days.
I feel like I took in so much from the speakers, the estuary group and just talking with other people. I will need some time to process it all. It seems like you are too in this piece. I love what you wrote. It really resonates.
You freaking nailed the landing
Thanks big dawg ❤️
Man, this is so incredibly spot on, and beautiful. Thank you. So many of my own vague thoughts crystallized here. Maybe I’m projecting, but it also seems to share the strangely mixed tone of melancholy and deep gratitude I’m feeling in the wake of the conference.
If you haven’t yet read the novel Laurus, you should - Arseny’s arc and the conclusion echo your proposed narrative.
Yes, I am feeling just that. I am feeling a deep pull to take this all with an intense sobriety of mind. And even the strange cloud melancholy that hangs over me amidst bursts of love and affection, I cannot help but feel it is a blessing in keeping me in sobriety of mind. As it happens, Grey, Laurus was one of two books I bought at the conference. Started years ago but I’m wanting dive in again and finish.
Again nailing the words for how I feel. Had an interaction this morning where I tried to describe the beauty I witnessed at the conference and was met with “haha only you would go to something like that.” That’ll keep you sober.
That Laurus was one of those two books somehow doesn’t surprise me. Definitely stick with it through the “slower” parts, the conclusion is 100x worth it.
Let the soberness offer you the space to create clarity for your aim by finding the depths of your being
Seconded, read Laurus. My goodness, is it beautifully relevant. It even partakes of the strange mix of deep joyful melancholy. Not to mention pleasingly kumbaya...
Beautiful Christian. Also I snorted: “mostly due to my having one of those disordered attachment styles that have been going around lately.”
(This is Nick whose wife you sat next to at dinner.) But thank you, Elizabeth.
Ah sorry I thought I was responding to the post. Also, hello!
Hello! Thank you for reading. And for spending time with our rag tag group of randos.
Write this story. I can totally imagine an opening going from, her explanation of her life leading up to that moment, to the actual meeting of the couple and the contact negotiations. It's a great idea.
Also, as a (mostly) outside observer, I think you're totally right about the TLC.
Thanks for this, Nick.
Watch for the places where you see the woman fleeing into the wilderness. As Grim pointed out. Same story.
1Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars. 2Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth.
3And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads. 4His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her Child as soon as it was born. 5She bore a male Child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And her Child was caught up to God and His throne. 6Then the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that they should feed her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days.
noice
This was great. That novel sounds incredible.