Comments | robin_rule: Getting Ready to Turn 52

robin_rule

Getting Ready to Turn 52

Jun 14, 2007 22:30

I was replying to an email to kathleen winters (magicfirefly) and decided i liked what i was writing. i haven't been writing lately and if it's a letter to someone that inspires me these days. i'll take it.thanks kathleen ( Read more... )

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rootedfool June 15 2007, 14:42:44 UTC

happy birthday!

robin_rule June 15 2007, 18:09:09 UTC

thanks joe, you were another i was thinking who's getting the acclain he wants, though men do find it easier in the poetry world. i like to think i sorta knew you when you were a 'nobody', before LJ, but of course it WAS 2nd hand. you keep going on, man...

rootedfool June 15 2007, 18:14:47 UTC

That's the thing, I am not so sure I wanted acclaim beyond the publication of chapbooks and books. I'm not so interested in journals, magazines, and readings. I think in the forms of small books -- it's how things gel for me. In other words, my aims haven't been grand.

robin_rule June 16 2007, 00:05:48 UTC

yeah, that's what i've found my press has become, small chapbooks, broadsides and the like. only one expensive book so far and we're doing one for david melzter this summer that we got a $2,000. grant to do, and i think, man, what i could do with two thou, so many poets...but he deserves it and if we make money on it, i'll go back to small unknown chapbooks that make me feel good i'm helping get the word out. i LIKE readings, and i get th eidea you don't, yr still dealing with being nervous? i useda too, but practice has taken most of that away, just enough to give me an edge, to make it real when i read. what i like about chapbooks is you can write about a single experience and how many different ways it effected you, instead of things like , "The Collected Works of..." is that what you mean? i'm glad you'vegot quite a collection going. if i hadn't taken time out to raise a family i like tothink i would have more than four, but i don't regret those children one effin' moment. sometimes their fathers however...

karow June 21 2007, 19:28:36 UTC

52 slips up on me as well this December...there were times I never thought I'd see it!

The silver doesn't bother me, though it would be nice to have more of it "up on top" instead of that Yul Brenner thing going on!

:o)

alan

yul brenner robin_rule June 23 2007, 08:25:58 UTC

alan, when i was four and five, i grew up on maui and my father was 20. he was almost completely bald. i remember sitting in the back seat of the car as we drove up to that volcano where the century plant grows and it was his birthday and the plant was in flower. i thought 20 was very old and he was gonna die soon. as i expressed my fears, he laughed and said no way, and we exchanged our special look in the rearview mirror. my mother saw us and made me sit back, but it was too late: the Love had passed between us and i knew he wasn't dying soon. he started shaving soon after that and looked terrific when he wasn't drinking. i was always proud to stand with him when he was sober. he was real, natural and pure. my mother started tinting her hair as soon as it started turning. i learned from him, natural is good. it may have taken me a while to learn this, but when i did, like now, i feel fabulous. it's hard separating the good from the disappointments, but my father gave me so much, so many things like bald is beautiful, silver is ( ... )

Re: yul brenner karow June 23 2007, 08:57:44 UTC

You are such a treasure! You made my heart smile just now; it's needed that all week!

Thank you!

alan

Re: yul brenner robin_rule June 23 2007, 09:15:20 UTC

i am always amazed when you answer so fast knowiing you live in kansas ans it's 2:15 a.m. HERE in california. oh, i get it, yr UP, to get ready for work, sowait, tomorrow's saturday. yr a crazy wildman, on the keyboard. and glad you liked my story.

raingirl26 July 2 2007, 06:17:15 UTC

send some of that settling of the soul my way will ya? i think you've made it through the mid life crisis stage and i am in the throws of it. nice to know there is a way out.

and why didn't i know you were on maui? nice to hear some of the good from your father. i'm 49 and the gray is not very strong, but i intend on being long white haired, put up gracefully (how i think i'll accomplish that since it's never graceful now i don't know, but that's what i see).

Hair robin_rule July 2 2007, 17:48:16 UTC

yr hair is tremendously gracful now and what you have to do is have someone tech you how to french braid yr own hair. i had a friend who took one morning (hours) and made me put it up in a french braid and then take it downj. one down the middle of my back. and then put it up again and then take it down again. over and over, my arms aching. when i had mastered (mistressed) this, she made me french braid two , one on each side sometimes going back, down the bck sometimes going down the sides down my breasts, over andover and over until i could close my eyes and do all three ways, which i can do now. i taught myself how to back a loose pony tailon the almost top of my head, but more toward the back and pull the hairtie a little loose sothat the hair was loose and gentle around my face and then either wrap it around my head and pin it, or braid it and then wrap and pin. these are all good things to do with long hair that are regal. i also make two frenchbraid that tend to braid down the back and criss-cross them and pin them behind my ( ... )