Well, Sheila, auto-ethnography sounds interesting all right. Objectivity
has long been discredited. I can see now why that title might be
appropriate but now am all at sea with Map Light.
Bill
On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 at 1:41 pm, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> I will shift this for sure, the title.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 4:41 PM Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > Bill, I appreciate what you say here, and it adds a lot for me as I think
> > this through. Auto-Ethnography is something I am looking at in my other
> > work, and it moves into fiction, as well. The writing or researching self
> > is embedded in the work being described, versus that objective approach
> > that seeks to be clinical.
> >
> > I have acquainted myself with this in recent days for other purposes. I
> > put that title on, and realize as you say this that it is probably
> > something that could or should be replaced by something more in the
> spirit
> > of the writing, and I'll do that, I am pretty sure.
> >
> > Thank you as always for reading carefully and generously, Bill.
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 4:29 PM Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Intriguing, Sheila. Plenty of moody weeds around here this Spring.
> Mostly
> >> I
> >> find them smug. Especially when they hve established themselves and the
> >> rain stops and they know they have a good grip in the soil.
> >>
> >> Fascinating series of questions about the quality of listening and
> >> unmoored
> >> truths. With the sadness one, not that you seek direct responses no
> doubt,
> >> I do feel that you can sound or rather take soundings for sadness which
> >> has
> >> plungeable depths to which elation can never jump. Or that leaps into
> >> happiness tend to be easy one-way thrusts as opposed to encumbered ways
> >> down. Your title eludes me however.
> >>
> >> Bill
> >>
> >> On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 at 6:38 am, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Of what use is *who-I-am*? Not much else
> >> > is known. The mood of weeds comes true, *n'est-ce pas?*
> >> > Syllables when unconnected endanger us.
> >> > If you are listening, when do you intend to stop?
> >> >
> >> > The lighthouse posted in the lower peninsula is on retainer in my
> heart.
> >> > I hear you sprinkle truth in granules I cannot connect.
> >> > Is there a correlation between sadness and depth?
> >> > Infinity as I have understood it has not. been invented.
> >> >
> >> > The fresco you predicted has come true.
> >> > I touch each moisture-free impression.
> >> > Can habit be like fact?
> >> > The mood of the people may remove me.
> >> >
> >> > If an angel is delinquent, who will punish?
> >> > Thatched roofs distinguish sky from inner peace.
> >> > The litmus test of washing day is whether we have standing.
> >> > Are you who you say you were?
> >> >
> >> > Sheila Murphy
> >> >
> >> >
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