You're making me smile, Regina. It's your prologue that I like, the part about women seeing what might be, men what is. My wife and I had a dispute recently springing from the difference, then the next day a clarifying discussion. She is a physician. She thinks her dizzying, detailed sense of what might be strengthens her work, insights, thoroughness. I believe her.
I, on the other hand, am singularly slow, single-minded, literal-minded, focused on the task at hand; and I am irritable as all get out when interrupted - especially when the interruptions are the merest maybes. My theory is that my focus helps me get things done. One at a time please, and please don't bother me when I'm at it!
Appropriately enough, my wife interrupted me as I was typing this. Seems that Tammy the Dog was eating a ground squirrel. So I had to interrupt Tammy, retrieve the remaining half of her snack and set it out for the magpies a good way off from the dog yard. Tammy was more accepting of the situation than I usually am.
Flannery O'Connor once wrote a thing that I use in my defense. "There is a certain grain of stupidity that a writer can hardly do without. It is the quality of having to stare, of not getting the point at once."
That's me all over. I stare at what is, as best I can see it. One item at a time. Which I think puts me on the side of Jesus. "Sufficient unto the day is the trouble thereof."
My wife is on his mom's side. "Pssst! Looks like they're running low on wine!" Am I right in detecting a certain irritability in his reply? "What's that to me, woman?"
Anyhow, your preface seems to have our number, my wife's and mine. I forwarded your email to her. She'll like the validation in your preface, and the ensuing fashion mag besides. And all the clothes you photographed are in her colors. My favorite part beyond the preface was the last bit about the Suburban.
Thanks. Good post - as usual, Regina. Looks like I'm getting back to them and responding now. (More to come . . .)
I always come home with several unworn outfits. I will give this a go; thanks for sharing. I love the visual. I am especially impressed that despite totaling a car you were able to enjoy your holiday!
You're making me smile, Regina. It's your prologue that I like, the part about women seeing what might be, men what is. My wife and I had a dispute recently springing from the difference, then the next day a clarifying discussion. She is a physician. She thinks her dizzying, detailed sense of what might be strengthens her work, insights, thoroughness. I believe her.
I, on the other hand, am singularly slow, single-minded, literal-minded, focused on the task at hand; and I am irritable as all get out when interrupted - especially when the interruptions are the merest maybes. My theory is that my focus helps me get things done. One at a time please, and please don't bother me when I'm at it!
Appropriately enough, my wife interrupted me as I was typing this. Seems that Tammy the Dog was eating a ground squirrel. So I had to interrupt Tammy, retrieve the remaining half of her snack and set it out for the magpies a good way off from the dog yard. Tammy was more accepting of the situation than I usually am.
Flannery O'Connor once wrote a thing that I use in my defense. "There is a certain grain of stupidity that a writer can hardly do without. It is the quality of having to stare, of not getting the point at once."
That's me all over. I stare at what is, as best I can see it. One item at a time. Which I think puts me on the side of Jesus. "Sufficient unto the day is the trouble thereof."
My wife is on his mom's side. "Pssst! Looks like they're running low on wine!" Am I right in detecting a certain irritability in his reply? "What's that to me, woman?"
Anyhow, your preface seems to have our number, my wife's and mine. I forwarded your email to her. She'll like the validation in your preface, and the ensuing fashion mag besides. And all the clothes you photographed are in her colors. My favorite part beyond the preface was the last bit about the Suburban.
Thanks. Good post - as usual, Regina. Looks like I'm getting back to them and responding now. (More to come . . .)
I always come home with several unworn outfits. I will give this a go; thanks for sharing. I love the visual. I am especially impressed that despite totaling a car you were able to enjoy your holiday!