noble hearts

[nalaladina]

oh, the idealist that i am contrived to be??? i find that when i give in to the idealistic view of my romantic world, I feel much better....though I know that doing this isn't getting me anywhere- I hate this progressive world sometimes. After taking Calc 1, Calc 2, sciences out the gazoo...cutting open rat brains...electrophysiology....I steam

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[novak]

Your email regarding the Margaret Fuller song came out of the blue last night, and was so without initial context that I felt like I'd wandered into an ongoing conversation for which I'd missed the first half. That said, once I got what was going on, I was quite intrigued. (I also only then discovered that Shipwrecked: From Birmingham to Jericho With No Prozac had finally been released. So I'm excited to have that making its way to me in the mail as I type.)

I grew up by Margaret Fuller Island, on the Rock River in Oregon, Illinois, named in memory of her famed visit to the then-seven year-old town in 1843. I'd read the poems she'd written there, loved the beauty of my home in the same way that she did, and drank from the spring named for the Ganymede of her poem Ganymede To His Eagle written on the Eagles Nest bluff. I was even educated by a compelling Ms Fuller who I suspect was a descendent of the uncle? cousin? that she had gone out there to visit. But your letter got me to pull Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 up from the

[nalaladina]

novak!!!!!
sigh. thank you so much :) you always make me feel like what I am going through has meaning; lucky to have a friend like that. xoxoxoxoxo

i want to drink from that stream sometime, i'm a little jealous. do you visit that home place often?

[nalaladina]

and i just figured i would update my mood to "innervated" :)