Personal Connections Through the US Postal Service: A Year of the Tesseract Post (among other stuff)

[rockinlibrarian]

It's gotten to the point where, if you happen to be my LiveJournal Friend, you can't click on the blog without my entire first page being "My Tweets" imports. I try to Friendslock those posts as soon as I catch them, not because they're meant to be friends-only (you can just read my Twitter if you wanted to read what was in those posts, AND MORE,

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sooo...did you not mean it?

[anonymous]

"But of course it's even less real than a Happy Birthday
on Facebook."

Re: sooo...did you not mean it?

[rockinlibrarian]

Oh, I MEAN it, but you have to admit it would have been more awesome if I sent you a real paper card in the mail!

(Of course, I don't even know your mailing address, because you didn't sign your name, Anonymous :P)

[elouise82]

That is beautiful. And it inspires me to maybe get around to actually writing that fan letter to Susan Cooper, who is one of the few authors LEFT who has inspired me and given me hope and strength throughout childhood and even adulthood, but who hasn't already died.

Carl and I got into a wildly metaphysical discussion a few weeks ago, inspired by Madeleine L'Engle, about the difference between reality and truth (well, it wasn't so much a discussion as it was me spouting all kinds of tumbled thoughts and he trying to keep up) - how, like she said, things don't always have to be factual in order to be true, and something can be completely not-real and still be truer than the realest thing in the universe.

Hope, beauty, courage. What a gift the best writers have given to this world.

[rockinlibrarian]

Oh yes, please write to Susan Cooper! You won't want to be stuck wondering why you never did!

I think my core spiritual beliefs rely on the Truth in story, that facts and Truth are different. One of the mnemonic devices that's really common in children's/school library is the old The Difference Between Fiction and Nonfiction, think "Fiction"="Fake" because they both start with F. I HATE that one. I keep trying to avoid it. Even if it's not as catchy, I keep insisting that Fiction is Stories made up by one known author, and Non-Fiction is Everything Else (because there's lots of made-up stuff in non-fiction, too, anyway), because that's more accurate on one hand and doesn't make judgments about either section on the other. I know, it's peculiar of me, but I always just HATED that thing.