Comments on: Conversational thread

By: Lesbian Dad

Lesbian Dad — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:22:31 +0000

Thank you, dimplecheek. I forget and remember and forget and remember and forget and remember what’s important in life, multiple times a day/week/month. Compassion for the forgetting, and a commitment to try and remember, ‘s all I can muster. Nice to be mustering together.

By: dimplecheek

dimplecheek — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:39:03 +0000

Wonderful! It’s posts like this that keep me coming back for more and remind me what is really important in my life. I can feel the love you have for your family oozing out of the keyboard. Thanks!

By: Lesbian Dad

Lesbian Dad — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:58:52 +0000

Thanks, you both.

These little buggers amaze me, too. Do you think they have the Calvino and the Adams in a young reader’s format? Like with large type, and maybe illustrations every couple of pages?

By: BeethovenLives

BeethovenLives — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:52:40 +0000

Your kids never cease to amaze me with their wisdom!

Speaking of the use of metaphysical threads in literiture, in Douglas Adam’s Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy everybody has a sort of subspace thread that connects them to their birth place. The further away they go the more anxious and lost they begin to feel. This idea always resonated with me.

By: annz

annz — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:29:58 +0000

I love this conversation! Do you know that Italo Calvino story from “Invisible Cities” about all the people connected by threads, and how they dismantle the city eventually and all that remains are the threads that connected everyone? I’ll bring it over for you sometime. Actually, your girlie would love that book, I think it will be right up her alley, a few years from now. Or maybe she’ll be the world’s first 5-year old to read Calvino!