[stylist] believing the unbelievable

[Lynda Lambert]

How kind of you both, Jackie and Debby.
One of the things I love to do most is spend time with a poem.  I mean, 
time, not a glance of a quick read-through, but a long passage of time - 
re-reading it, sleeping on it- meditating on it - and just be with it. This 
is called "explication" of a poem.  I am a slow, slow, slow reader - really.
I examine a poem that interests me, like I would do a work of art.  It is 
all about what it means to see - not to take a quick glance, or a scan, but 
a good long look.  I enjoyed doing it with your piece.  Lynda

-----Original Message----- 
From: Jackie Williams via stylist
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2015 10:37 AM
To: 'Writers' Division Mailing List'
Cc: Jackie Williams
Subject: Re: [stylist] believing the unbelievable

Debbie,
You said a very wise thing. Lynda often understands so much of what we
write, that it illuminates things we did not even know exactly what we were
trying to say.
I also liked your piece very much. It was deeply felt and sensitive.
When I was in Idaho visiting my sister, she took me to a place that accepted
week-long visitors. It was run by months. I really wanted to stay there,
having experienced such trauma in my life, that I just wanted Silence and
meditative time. It did not work out, because of family activities. One of
life's lost opportunities.

Jackie Lee

Time is the school in which we learn.
Time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz


-----Original Message-----
From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Debby
Phillips via stylist
Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2015 8:28 PM
To: Writers' Division Mailing List
Cc: Debby Phillips
Subject: Re: [stylist] believing the unbelievable

Thank you so much, Lynda.  Prayer there at Mount Angel is present
everywhere, in everything that is done.  The whole day centers
around various times of prayer.  So for me, I was surrounded by
it, and it surrounded me, if that makes sense.

I'm not sure what I will do with this, I mean, I'm keeping it, of
course.  But I don't know whether I will submit it anywhere other
than here.  In a way it's so personal, so precious, this memory
of another time in my life, and my longing to return there.  I
feel like you understood so much more than I even did as I wrote
it.  (Smile).  Thank you so much, Lynda.    Blessings,    Debby

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