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I was totally exhausted last night after several days devoted to work on The BeZine for Monday. There’s a lot of reading, a lot of detail work, that goes into it … a lot of juggling too. All of it done staring relentlessly at my computer screen. It makes me long for the days of paper and blue pencil and art departments. Time for a break …
Bleary-eyed and evil-tempered, I picked up something on paper to read and ease my eyes: an old issue of Poetry, the wonderful magazine published by The Poetry Foundation.The issue happens to include an article by Roger Ebert. In closing, Ebert told about sharing a stage with Peter O’Toole.
“One night at the Telluride Film Festival, I was pressed into service to do an onstage interview with Peter O’Toole. We covered many of his films and adventures, and then I said: ‘I understand you have always wanted to play Jack Yeats.’ [Referring to W.B.’s brother, Jack, a painter and olympic athlete.]
“This was true, and he responded to it with a line or two by W.B. Yeats. They jarred something within me, and I answered with a few more lines of Yeats. Our eyes met, and something clicked. He quoted some more Yeats, and then I did, and we went on for 10 minutes or so, and he laughed and said, ‘Well, I think we’ve done our job.'” Roger Ebert, All My Heart for Speech, July/August 2013 issue of Poetry.
What fun. How I envy the people who heard them. It’s the stuff of dreams …
“But I, being poor, have only my dreams…”
(Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven)
W.B. Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds
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“Bleary eyed and evil tempered…” How well that describe that end-of-a-project mood. Thanks for your hard work.
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I have been wanting to write. Time and energy tight, but I do hope you’ll feel well enough to rejoin our adventures soon, Victoria. Warmly, J.
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For those times when you’ve been on the computer too long, my opthamologist recommends Similisan Dry Eye Relief eye drops. Similisan is the only homeopathic remedy and has pulled me out of many an exhausted-eye situation. I, too, now recommend. Inexpensive, too.
Linda
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👍👌👏
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Lovely! I would very much like to have been there.
Unfortunately, I have added to your work by adding a quote to the “lara” post.
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Thank you, No problem, Michael. I found a video – it’s actually a trailer for one of her books – I thought I might add it and I also found her bio. https://larahentz.wordpress.com/about/ So we can put in a link. Sound okay to you?
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I enjoyed that.
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Well, we are of a mind and a generation, eh? Liz, so nice to see you. I’ll be visiting after I finish putting up “The BeZine.” Virtual hugs! J.
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Jamie, thank you. Ah … haven’t written in a year or so … having a difficult time settling in. But working at it. Thinking about writing again, but not sure I have anything to say … 😉
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Sounds like a great moment of collaboration! Thank you, Jamie, for all the work you put in to collaborate with the BeZine group. I truly appreciate it and the opportunity to have that great experience of creating in concert.
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It’s really my pleasure, Priscilla, and I always appreciate how thoughtfully you read. I did see your other comment and will respond later. I need to get the rest of the posts up and only just this a.m. got some work from guest contributors that I have to review. So far so good …
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