Comments on: To History, and Imagination http://onething.beautifulheritage.com/?p=4508 Becoming Real Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:38:31 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jay Patterson http://onething.beautifulheritage.com/?p=4508&cpage=1#comment-16056 Jay Patterson Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:31:20 +0000 http://onething.beautifulheritage.com/?p=4508#comment-16056 Cousin Jenni-I don't know if you remember me but Dad (Johnny) mailed me copies of your story about Papps. I couldn't see the pictures very well so I decided to just come on here. I would like to tell you how well you write and the words about our Grandmother could not have been said more eloquently. You made this 51 year old tough guy cry - I have so many good memories of Papps and Grandpa too. They were so special to me. Thank you for sharing this. If you write anything else, please let me read. My email is jaypatt1@swbell.net Please give my love to your mom and dad. Take care - Jay Patterson Cousin Jenni-I don’t know if you remember me but Dad (Johnny) mailed me copies of your story about Papps. I couldn’t see the pictures very well so I decided to just come on here. I would like to tell you how well you write and the words about our Grandmother could not have been said more eloquently. You made this 51 year old tough guy cry – I have so many good memories of Papps and Grandpa too. They were so special to me. Thank you for sharing this. If you write anything else, please let me read. My email is jaypatt1@swbell.net
Please give my love to your mom and dad. Take care – Jay Patterson

]]> By: Lisa http://onething.beautifulheritage.com/?p=4508&cpage=1#comment-15975 Lisa Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:24:11 +0000 http://onething.beautifulheritage.com/?p=4508#comment-15975 Jenni, This tribute is wonderful. Your words paint a picture and involve every one of my senses. Keep writing! Lisa Jenni, This tribute is wonderful. Your words paint a picture and involve every one of my senses. Keep writing!
Lisa

]]> By: Charlene http://onething.beautifulheritage.com/?p=4508&cpage=1#comment-15919 Charlene Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:01:51 +0000 http://onething.beautifulheritage.com/?p=4508#comment-15919 Jenny---Your Mom said tears would be shed.What a wonderful tribute to your grandmother. We think the world of your mom & Dad. What a great bunch of youngens they raised. You truly have a great command of words. So talented. Jenny—Your Mom said tears would be shed.What a
wonderful tribute to your grandmother. We think the
world of your mom & Dad. What a great bunch of youngens
they raised. You truly have a great command of words. So
talented.

]]> By: Robin http://onething.beautifulheritage.com/?p=4508&cpage=1#comment-15903 Robin Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:55:31 +0000 http://onething.beautifulheritage.com/?p=4508#comment-15903 That was marvelous...it gave me chills. That was marvelous…it gave me chills.

]]> By: Paul http://onething.beautifulheritage.com/?p=4508&cpage=1#comment-15900 Paul Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:44:11 +0000 http://onething.beautifulheritage.com/?p=4508#comment-15900 Why, Jeuneois, you fried us up a mighty fine mess o' scribbles, there. Reminds me of the times when Ollie-Bee would "fry us up a mess o' scribbles" (toenails). Usually wound up with a terrible case of "writer's block", but we never complained. Did I ever tell you about the lucid dream I had before River was born, about going up the stairs in the old house to Paw-Paw's room and finding him there, and how I sat with him and listened as he told me about life and death and fatherhood and love and fear, and to not be afraid? The curtains in front of the attic door were billowing around him and he seemed to glow, emanating such love and compassion that I wept in my sleep. Then, the bucktoothed sea bass chimed in with a few "words" of his own, and the dream kind of went off in another direction. But for a while there, it was really comforting. <em>Paul, you and Matt are giving all my readers some very valuable insight into the strangeness from whence I sprang. Thank you. Also, you never told me about the dream, why haven't you written a song about it?</em> Why, Jeuneois, you fried us up a mighty fine mess o’ scribbles, there. Reminds me of the times when Ollie-Bee would “fry us up a mess o’ scribbles” (toenails). Usually wound up with a terrible case of “writer’s block”, but we never complained.

Did I ever tell you about the lucid dream I had before River was born, about going up the stairs in the old house to Paw-Paw’s room and finding him there, and how I sat with him and listened as he told me about life and death and fatherhood and love and fear, and to not be afraid? The curtains in front of the attic door were billowing around him and he seemed to glow, emanating such love and compassion that I wept in my sleep.

Then, the bucktoothed sea bass chimed in with a few “words” of his own, and the dream kind of went off in another direction. But for a while there, it was really comforting.

Paul, you and Matt are giving all my readers some very valuable insight into the strangeness from whence I sprang. Thank you. Also, you never told me about the dream, why haven’t you written a song about it?

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