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by abby
Mon Feb 26, 2024 7:13 am
Forum: Other Writers and Writing
Topic: On The Infanticide Marie Farrar - Bertolt Brecht
Replies: 12
Views: 15943

Re: On The Infanticide Marie Farrar - Bertolt Brecht

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RXkivKflffE the memory breaks a bit, too, eh? i listened to that song one summer i spent exploring the redwoods & the coast in california in my twenties. i had had the thought that maybe i could show the redwoods to my mom through my eyes, since my mom was dead, bec...
by abby
Fri Feb 23, 2024 4:31 am
Forum: Other Writers and Writing
Topic: On The Infanticide Marie Farrar - Bertolt Brecht
Replies: 12
Views: 15943

Re: On The Infanticide Marie Farrar - Bertolt Brecht

{dar} is that how you make a hug? that's a hug, dar. <3
by abby
Sat Dec 23, 2023 8:20 pm
Forum: News
Topic: RIP jack lazariuk
Replies: 13
Views: 1524

Re: RIP jack lazariuk

i went to the old newsgroup today & saw a message indicating that come frebruary 22, 2024 there will be no more posting but that an archive will remain- the archive of historical data. it feels more than a little fitting that the old newsgroup dies with jack. at least to me, who grew up there. x...
by abby
Fri Oct 20, 2023 4:35 pm
Forum: News
Topic: RIP jack lazariuk
Replies: 13
Views: 1524

Re: RIP jack lazariuk

thank you for posting this here, geoffrey. the atmosphere feels changed without jack- i mean in the world not just here.
by abby
Fri Jan 27, 2023 6:39 am
Forum: Comments & Questions
Topic: Apathy of Late
Replies: 43
Views: 13414

Re: Apathy of Late

12 years ago or so i made a berry pie for a potluck. it was too full, the top crust was a lattice but the crossing strips were varying widths & thicknesses. i crimped the edges but like an amateur. i don't think the lattice really stuck to the edges. some stranger took an enormous piece of it &a...
by abby
Sun Nov 27, 2022 5:35 pm
Forum: Comments & Questions
Topic: Tattoo with LC Lyrics...
Replies: 9
Views: 4028

Re: Tattoo with LC Lyrics...

Nick Cave answers fan letters in what he calls The Red Hand Files. I've attached the text of this morning's very fitting letter. I couldn't agree more. https://www.theredhandfiles.com/do-you-like-your-tattoo/ ISSUE #214 / NOVEMBER 2022 How do you feel when you stand before the mirror? Do you like yo...
by abby
Sat Nov 26, 2022 9:11 pm
Forum: Comments & Questions
Topic: Tattoo with LC Lyrics...
Replies: 9
Views: 4028

Re: Tattoo with LC Lyrics...

i have two tattoos of leonard's lyrics- one from anthem down my arm & one from hallelujah on my back. the arm was done right around the time i turned thirty & in over a decade it's only become a little less fine, but the hallelujah tattoo is more or less a train wreck by anyone's standards b...
by abby
Tue Nov 08, 2022 5:29 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Leonard Has Passed Away
Replies: 701
Views: 381758

Re: Leonard Has Passed Away

not nitpicking at all. please forgive my error. it's always a surprise when how i'm doing is reflected back to me. 6 years makes so much more sense! believable even.
by abby
Tue Nov 08, 2022 1:27 am
Forum: News
Topic: Leonard Has Passed Away
Replies: 701
Views: 381758

Re: Leonard Has Passed Away

i didn't realize today was the anniversary of leonard's death until i came to browse the forum. my husband is going to the store now for groceries & i've asked him to pick up a yarzheit candle. the day is mostly over but i won't light the thing anyhow- my father-in-law is in the next room on hos...
by abby
Wed Oct 19, 2022 6:58 am
Forum: Book of Longing
Topic: Meaning of Drawing below "Order of Unified Hearts"
Replies: 6
Views: 9673

Re: Meaning of Drawing below "Order of Unified Hearts"

I so appreciate the reference, Lisa. Coming across this thread I felt like I'd never had words for the symbol's meaning, that whatever meaning it had held for me was wordless, intuitive, & when I tried to find the words I could only think of Leonard's heart entwined with... God? a woman? My thou...
by abby
Mon Oct 17, 2022 6:09 pm
Forum: Book of Longing
Topic: Meaning of Drawing below "Order of Unified Hearts"
Replies: 6
Views: 9673

Re: Meaning of Drawing below "Order of Unified Hearts"

whose hearts are unified in the unified hearts logo?
by abby
Tue Oct 04, 2022 6:21 am
Forum: Comments & Questions
Topic: I wish Leonard were alive to see this.
Replies: 0
Views: 8866

I wish Leonard were alive to see this.

This was the Saturday Profile in The NYT this past week. It's likely only available to subscribers, but here is the text. The last paragraphs remind me so much of Leonard. The idea that what is broken won't be repaired feels like a prayer, feels like being let off the hook. My brain protests the ide...
by abby
Fri Jun 11, 2021 2:46 am
Forum: News
Topic: Leonard, Marianne, and Me: Magical Summers on Hydra (new book)
Replies: 19
Views: 5294

Re: Leonard, Marianne, and Me: Magical Summers on Hydra (new book)

What unexpected memory. Reading this was the first time I thought of Alexis Bolens in many years. I met him when I was 17 briefly visiting Hydra. I was looking for Leonard's house & he pointed toward a place behind a red church. If my memory serves, we spoke about his recent bereavement. Was it ...
by abby
Sat Jun 05, 2021 6:09 am
Forum: Comments & Questions
Topic: How Do We Come to Terms with Leonard Cohen’s Legacy in the #Metoo Era?
Replies: 6
Views: 3860

Re: How Do We Come to Terms with Leonard Cohen’s Legacy in the #Metoo Era?

Thank you for posting this. I've loved Leonard such a long time, but over the last few years the connection has waned. It happened in part when he died, but something shifted more when I married & then became a mom. At some point during my pregnancy or shortly after my son was born, I got Beauti...
by abby
Sat Dec 05, 2020 6:28 pm
Forum: Leonard Cohen's poetry and novels
Topic: Book of Mercy #29-40
Replies: 190
Views: 92462

Re: Book of Mercy #29-40

a theologian poet i like very much is facilitating a workshop on book of mercy today. from the website: An Online Workshop Led by Pádraig Ó Tuama with Co-Hosts Lanecia Rouse Tinsley and Sara Triana Leonard Cohen, known as a singer and songwriter, began his life as a poet. His book Book of Mercy is a...

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