Hi Ken,
and thanks for the welcome back.Thanks too for your recent post on Philip
Dacey, though I didn' know he was still around; there are a good number of
works by Eakins at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts where I just was the other
day, though mostly to look at Gauguin's Where are we going...etc.
Well, maybe I envy your envy of giftedness, since I've never envied another's art
or craft or skill or fame. I guess I could claim that it's some virtue, but it's just
an absence, it's never made any sense of me as if an eagle would envy a warbler.
But then maybe it's just that all my jealousy is very particular and that except for
one or two occasions I might never have tasted its sting. Like Hawthorne's "the
Birthmark" where the crazed doctor/lover intent on perfection thinks to make
his perfect beloved even more perfect by removing her birthmark, and as it
fades, she dies. Which is to say, that my jealousy is like two centimeters under
the left fingernail of my pinky finger, but still was enough to throw my body
around. Or perhaps it was the other way around? lol
I liked the poem you posted.
best wishes for the new year,
Rebecca
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>Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 18:36:49 -0500
>From: Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: hello
>To: [log in to unmask]
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>Rebecca Seiferle wrote:
>
>>Well, this is a bit awkward, after being off the list for months, so I'll just say
>>hello to everyone, and that I'm glad to see you all still kicking around,
working
>>away, publishing books, and that I'll hope to catch up and meet everyone and
>>look forward to conversations.
>>
>>
>Well, THERE you are, and good! Nothing awkward about it, nice you are
>back, and Happy New Year.
>
>Ken
>
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>Kenneth Wolman www.kenwolman.com kenwolman.blogspot.com
>
>39. Not observing the imperfections of others, preserving silence and a
continual communion with God will eradicate great imperfections from the
>soul and make it the possessor of great virtues.
> --St. John of the Cross, Maxims on Love (The Minor Works)
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