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"someone else will fill those voids" - I like that. It's as if there are never ending voids to fill though. We write until the void is full and then turn around to see another void. A bit like the bear who climbed the mountain.
posted by
Ca88andra
on September 6, 2005 at 3:45 AM
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This one silent clicker speaks volumes and clearly inside our heads
Well, I can't help but comment again. I too sensed the sadness that Word noted. And in these comments (so far) is a huge swell of collective warmth from a wide variety of bloggers talking such absolute sense. Quite a few people, it seems to me, have been saying to themselves 'Where's May gone?' and they've come to have a look, only to find that you've not gone, but that you're just doing a bit of 'silent clicking' and taking a rest from the enormous amount of comments you leave, comments, I might add, that are never vacuous, but always well-thought-out, warm, intelligent and clearly demonstrate that you have not only read, but understood the post you are commenting on - very often in depth on long posts. That kind of care about your fellow blogger is never easily discarded.
Enjoy the well-earned rest from commenting and just take a look at this plethora of pleasant positivity.
In short, we love you and we will read you, even if your combine harvester is at the menders.
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on September 6, 2005 at 1:34 AM
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MayB, maybe some of us would miss it, some.
posted by
benzinha
on September 6, 2005 at 12:06 AM
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I believe your writing gives you a sense of meaning, and
what you say is so authentic about how the world feels about each of us. I have thought a lot about this concept of what gives us each meaning. I believe all our meanings are provisional, not absolute. The world does not care for any of us. Sure, in our cribs, too young to understand, we learn that we are ok. But this might not be true. But none of us, unprepared right now to be found hanging in a stairwell, should think much about this. If the party's goin' on for you, personally, I'd say run with it. May, admit it: writing is fun. At least it helps me. I had a shrink tell me to write, not for others but because the mind thinks in a different way by using the body --verbally --in the act of writing. Of course, we all want more than angsty therapy. We would all like to be appreciated. The common fact is that most of us, whatever we do, are not. n
posted by
Novelvision2020
on September 6, 2005 at 12:03 AM
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I bet if you wrote more about
chicken poop, they would. *grin* Hope this put a smile on your face, Mayb.
posted by
Joe_Love
on September 5, 2005 at 7:39 PM
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Horsehockey
(Nice HTML stuff though.).
If you feel that way, then pursue a goal to which you can bend your skill at writing. Sort of like a duelist becoming a soldier, or a portraitist taking oin the publicity for a charity, the formerly primary skill becomes the mainstay for an exceptional, related but more diversified, service.
Ah, I hear a song coming on...
"To dream-m-m-m, the impossible dre-e-e-e-e-eam!".....
Richard Kiley, eat your heart out.
posted by
majroj
on September 5, 2005 at 7:28 PM
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Wow...
This post captured my feelings really well. I have a need to write, it's something that I need to fulfill for myself first and foremost. But, the idea of not being read isn't a pleasant one. There are so many writers out there, it's impossible to believe you would be noticed if you stopped writing tomorrow. Somehow though, I doubt you could stop writing and have it go unnoticed.
posted by
RachelAnna
on September 5, 2005 at 7:10 PM
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I think...
i cannot live without writing either
posted by
Marshallengraved
on September 5, 2005 at 2:14 PM
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You would be missed by a whole lotta people. You have a lot to contribute, and your writing is lovely.
posted by
SilverMoon7
on September 5, 2005 at 12:33 PM
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MayB
It's strange I should read this, because I've said several times on here in the last couple of days that if there is one thing I've had to learn it is that we are all really like fingers in a glass of water - when removed, the water closes in as though we were never there; but perhaps we leave a bit of flavor unless enough new is added to wash it all away. I was speaking of corporate cultures. At least with writing, you never know when you might say just the one thing, put just the right string of words together that impacts someone else for the rest of their life. Think about it....I have pages of words I've collected that have had just such an impact on me....don't you? Someone just like you sat down because they just had to write and wrote them...the world needs words.
posted by
Krisles
on September 5, 2005 at 11:44 AM
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I note the blog change.
Your writing strikes me as sober - now it feels sad. I hope I'm mistaken.
posted by
word.smith
on September 5, 2005 at 11:20 AM
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The big picture
is but an arrangement of smaller brushstrokes. Your writing touches and teaches a fair (and growing) number of readers, so I disagree May. It would be missed and missed greatly.
posted by
Katray2
on September 5, 2005 at 9:58 AM
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Hmm...
...sobering thoughts although if you were to leave the world you'd have left a part of yourself in your writing...I'd like to have that legacy.
posted by
ginnieb
on September 5, 2005 at 9:55 AM
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MayB
I understand depression. Not to sound too swell-headed--after all, I'm usually in the same place you seem to be now--but if you were not a fine writer, a caring thinker, obviously an excellent teacher, and a person the "writing community" needs to know, you would not be a favorite of mine. As anthony1wiley says, luv ya, babe! Hemlocker
posted by
Hemlocker
on September 5, 2005 at 9:42 AM
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The blogging world does not "need" your words...but we like to have them, all the same. And some of us WOULD miss them.
posted by
Julia.
on September 5, 2005 at 9:38 AM
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You are an excellent writer and a great teacher.....
what is it that I have missed? - I can sense that something is not being said...but I could be wrong
posted by
_Symphony_
on September 5, 2005 at 9:32 AM
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I was told my poetry sucks.
Not so bluntly, but that was the gist of the criticism. I will keep writing anyway. I'm glad I read your blog because the comments about my poetry were scathing, and I was wondering why I even bother. Take care
posted by
Flumpystalls3000
on September 5, 2005 at 9:19 AM
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I Get Your Point
You write because you like writing, not because you think you're a superstar. Someone would pick up the slack in your place. Like George Harrison said, "Life goes on within you and without you." But that's not to say that your own unique flavor is not relevant. I don't think that's what you are trying to say anyway; I hope not.
If the ground swallowed you, that would provide us leftovers with something to write about. There's something you don't see everyday.
This reader would miss you.
posted by
CunningLinguist
on September 5, 2005 at 9:01 AM
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You would be missed. No need to say much more than that.
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on September 5, 2005 at 8:28 AM
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MayB heh, what kind of frowny face is that
you keep writing and we will keep reading.
posted by
scoop
on September 5, 2005 at 8:24 AM
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MayB
Good Morning.. I read you often and I will continue to do this unless you stop writing and that would be sad for you and your readers.
posted by
BrightIrish
on September 5, 2005 at 5:46 AM
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MayB
Keep writing!
Writing is an end unto itself ; and no matter that nobody reads what you write. Writing is a form of self-fulfillment that does not require and audience ; altho' it is nice that one knows that people enjoy what one writes.
I enjoy you posts, and if I were the only one to do so, i would continue to read them. So there!
posted by
ariel70
on September 5, 2005 at 5:41 AM
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Now, now don't be to hard on yourself. Everyone has there own opinion, don't take it to heart. Look if you can't beat them, join them. That's my modo. cheer up I am here for you.
Put on a happy face.
posted by
October--Angel
on September 5, 2005 at 5:38 AM
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