"Great are the sounds of all that live and all that man can hold."

[curlgirl510]

So much these days I feel the weight of being grown; all we do is so far from simple and every choice only brings more questions.

I'm beginning to love what I do (tutor writing online).  Mainly because I tend to be introverted and have my "no people" days.  But also because I feel very much like Penelope- I rip apart a tapestry of writing only to

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[sandokai]

I know what you mean about endlessly commenting on semicolon rules!

[curlgirl510]

It fixes so many problems: comma splices, run-ons, and those really choppy sentences.

If I don't know what else to comment on I always just say something like, "You could benefit from using more semi-colons...." Lol.

[sandokai]

Funny-- I'm usually doing the opposite: "Only use when joining two complete sentences" (there are other uses but they are so rare...) or "This should be a colon not a semicolon because it is introducing a list" etc.

[curlgirl510]

Yeah, I always seem to be stressing that as well. So many students seem to think that one can use a semi-colon to introduce a list or can use it interchangeably with commas.

light

[silveryngrid]

I've been thinking about light lately, and for some reason this following profile reminded me of your sun-in-morning post. There's something strange and compelling here, a world I don't know about.

http://www.awn.com/mag/issue1.2/articles1.2/moritz1.2.html