Comments on: The Nitty Gritty http://literaryjoe.wordpress.com/2007/01/23/the-nitty-gritty/ Blinded by the Light...and still stumbling around Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:55:16 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Nate Long http://literaryjoe.wordpress.com/2007/01/23/the-nitty-gritty/#comment-353 Nate Long Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:36:20 +0000 http://literaryjoe.wordpress.com/2007/01/23/the-nitty-gritty/#comment-353 I enjoyed the personal insight. TR Forum should be back up in a day or two, and I'll look forward to hearing all about your trip. I enjoyed the personal insight. TR Forum should be back up in a day or two, and I’ll look forward to hearing all about your trip.

]]> By: Sharon Dufour http://literaryjoe.wordpress.com/2007/01/23/the-nitty-gritty/#comment-351 Sharon Dufour Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:08:41 +0000 http://literaryjoe.wordpress.com/2007/01/23/the-nitty-gritty/#comment-351 I am back, Nate. Thanks for the warm welcome back. I enjoyed your post. It took me a long time to get to that point. I could have reduced it to the last paragraph, huh? I am back, Nate. Thanks for the warm welcome back. I enjoyed your post. It took me a long time to get to that point. I could have reduced it to the last paragraph, huh?

]]> By: Nate Long http://literaryjoe.wordpress.com/2007/01/23/the-nitty-gritty/#comment-349 Nate Long Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:35:31 +0000 http://literaryjoe.wordpress.com/2007/01/23/the-nitty-gritty/#comment-349 Welcome back! At least I think the fact that you're on my blog, indicates you must be in the States. And it is clear that you grasp what I'm trying to say. Welcome back! At least I think the fact that you’re on my blog, indicates you must be in the States.

And it is clear that you grasp what I’m trying to say.

]]> By: Nate Long http://literaryjoe.wordpress.com/2007/01/23/the-nitty-gritty/#comment-332 Nate Long Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:04:37 +0000 http://literaryjoe.wordpress.com/2007/01/23/the-nitty-gritty/#comment-332 Indeed, Jamie! And I say "in-deed" in more than one way; meaning both, "truly" and "it has been evidenced in deeds" We may have had to re-affirm our reality lately, but I find that testing has only confirmed the reality of the truth of that quote. And as you know well (laughing at myself there), far be it from me to carelessly assume over much upon the confidence of friendship. You're valued, my friend, you're valued. Indeed, Jamie! And I say “in-deed” in more than one way; meaning both, “truly” and “it has been evidenced in deeds”

We may have had to re-affirm our reality lately, but I find that testing has only confirmed the reality of the truth of that quote.

And as you know well (laughing at myself there), far be it from me to carelessly assume over much upon the confidence of friendship.

You’re valued, my friend, you’re valued.

]]> By: Jamie Guinn http://literaryjoe.wordpress.com/2007/01/23/the-nitty-gritty/#comment-331 Jamie Guinn Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:02:55 +0000 http://literaryjoe.wordpress.com/2007/01/23/the-nitty-gritty/#comment-331 More appropriately: "But Oh! The blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearless on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away." -Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, A Life for a Life, 1866 More appropriately:

“But Oh! The blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearless on any subject; with whom one’s deepest as well as one’s most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort – the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person – having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.”

-Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, A Life for a Life, 1866

]]> By: Jamie Guinn http://literaryjoe.wordpress.com/2007/01/23/the-nitty-gritty/#comment-330 Jamie Guinn Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:59:26 +0000 http://literaryjoe.wordpress.com/2007/01/23/the-nitty-gritty/#comment-330 You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what’s a life, anyway? We’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that. -E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White, Charlotte, in “Charlotte’s Web” You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what’s a life, anyway? We’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.

-E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White, Charlotte, in “Charlotte’s Web”

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