Never Give Up, Never Surrender

[jupiterorbit]

I haven't posted in here forever.  I haven't done project blogs (I might start doing a couple here and there for cooking), and I get discouraged when I spend time to craft a post, and get no responses except the occasional f**ckerpicker "correction" on one little thing I got "wrong".  :-/  Sorry, it's how I feel.  Enthusiastic amateur writer that I

Comments

[fjorlief]

I have wondered what you have been up to, and am sorry that there are those who only comment with grumpy nitpicky words...

I love reading about other peoples projects, sometimes it gets me enthused about trying something new, and sometimes all I can do is just write "Good Job" (and sometimes I feel that I have nothing useful to say, I'd not thought about that simply writing a comment lets folks know that someone is actually reading)

I understand, in my own way, about being split in wanting where to be... I love my little house, I love my Portland friends, but my sweetheart lives in the woods over a hundred miles away, and if I'd stayed in Olympia, which I almost did, I would be a whole lot closer to him. If I was making that move now, instead of six years ago, I'd not have moved here at all, but would have looked for a house up there

I look forward to reading whatever you write here...

[jupiterorbit]

Thanks, honey, I really appreciate it. I knew making the post it sounded incredibly selfish. I do think about you, a lot, and one thing I miss about working in Portland was that we found it a lot more plausible to be up there for a lot more stuff; and we kept running into you when we were out! We ran into you, what, twice when we were at IKEA and once at Whole Foods or whatever it was, and had lunch

[kareina]

Oddly enough, I was just thinking of you yesterday and wondering what you were up to. I used to read your words often, first on email lists, and later here, and always enjoyed the way you put them together, and what you had to say often got me to think about something in a new way, and I kind of miss it.

This comment is a good example. When I read your post my first thought on the nitpicky comments was that perhaps some people are commenting thusly because it is the one point in what you typed where they feel they have anything new to add. If they also were never taught the recipe for constructive criticism (mention something you like about it, then offer suggestion for improvment, then say something else you like) it can lead to sounding like a complaint when they were only happy to have new info to share.

Your comments about the newsgroups leading to an unintentioned philosophy is one that wouldn't have occured to me.

[jupiterorbit]

I understand about the "something new to add"; but I think you got the point below about how engrained it is now that that "something new" *must* be a contradiction or start an argument. I have studied communication a lot, and worked with it a lot professionally, *and* sat in meetings in my main hobby where the objective was to build a consensus

[countess_e]

I need homes in approximately four places by latest count myself. Completely understand this.

[jupiterorbit]

I know you do! I also want my condo in Seattle for fun weekends, and my theatre-going flat in London. :-D I just feel the pull of the ocean so strongly - I love the "Walk on the Ocean" song.

Today I was out at Camp Taloali going over the site for Bar Gemels, so I was able to enjoy being in another beautiful spot; but the soughing of the pine trees reminded me of the ocean again, and I was thinking of all of the literary references that say that tall pine forests sound like the ocean because all of the sound trees want to be out on the freedom of the water as tall masts!

I need a home in the mountains

[kareina]

But I am still not clear how to finance it, and if I had one I am afraid I would resent whatever made me leave it (like work)

Re: I need a home in the mountains

[jupiterorbit]

Yes, I'm in the same spot about the ocean. I understand.

[jillwheezul]

I love the ocean - maybe because I was born by it?

Anyway, I'd love to read about cooking experiments. I am often inspired by my friend's creativity. I'm really inspired by the Perfectly Period Feast folks and there is so much to learn and share.

You know though, I think FB sucked a lot of wind out of blogging, which is very sad.

[jupiterorbit]

I was born in the center of a Midwestern state (kept discreet because of information harvesting of stuff like your birth location - although hackers, I've only ever used that data on I think one very old airline miles account which I haven't used in 7 years; so if you can figure out how to get the airline miles, they're yours :-)), so that can't explain my longing. I know I loved it the first time I saw it, off the coast of Monterey