Comments for Sister Alma Rose Has the Last Word

Comment on Sister Alma Rose’s Prayer for a Time of Sadness by sloane

sloane — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:55:29 +0000

The sadness prayer is great. It really picked me up off of the floor.

Thanks Again

Comment on Hair Wars II by Mary

Mary — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:55:06 +0000

FROM ME, FANNY McELROY — P.S. Sister Alma Rose says that I am an Exceptional Child and that’s why she makes me — no, wait, URGES me to do a lot of plodding things like dig up ALL the weeds and polish the silver so that there is NO tarnish showing AT ALL. She says that Exceptional Children often become Unexceptional Adults because things come easily to them, the Exceptional Children, and they never learn to Plod, and it is the Plodders who are the happiest and most successful adults.

Comment on The Eloise Cure by almarose

almarose — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:28:25 +0000

Any time, CPS

Comment on The Eloise Cure by almarose

almarose — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:27:29 +0000

Thanks for asking! That’s a stock photo from istockphoto.com. Don’t know her name, but she is beautiful.

Comment on Splenectomy by almarose

almarose — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:35:43 +0000

Xiousgeonz — Rereading your amazing poem, another comment or two: Rhymed couplets can be tedious, or trite, or singsong-y, but yours are not, nor are the rhymes contrived. The penultimate five-line stanza, deviating from the conventions of the rest of the poem, is very effective, especially since you poetically and metaphorically return, in the final stanza, (a) to the rhyme and meter of the rest of the poem, and (b) to love, which was “always there.”

But why weren’t we told? The love was “always there,” but why does the sadistic “giant hand” obscure the love until we are at last “made aware” [how? by whom? and why then?] after agonies of aloneness, which the giant hand imposes, when we’re “given breath, and it takes our breath away” (marvelous line)?

In my experience, love has always been in full view, like the sun, and I have often turned my back on it, more comfortable in the shadows it casts…. Mary

Comment on Life 101 by almarose

almarose — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:55:40 +0000

Thanks, Xiousgeonz. I read the Bob Brooks piece. Fascinating. Makes me realize I should have said something about how “becoming an expert” boosts one’s self-esteem. Thanks! M

Comment on The Eloise Cure by almarose

almarose — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:51:12 +0000

Dear CPS — We’ll see what we can arrange. Café based on one of Miss Betsie’s long-ago entrepreneurial ventures called “Biscuits and Beethoven.” Love, Auntie M

Comment on The Eloise Cure by almarose

almarose — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:41:53 +0000

Dear Eleena — She is beautiful, isn’t she? In the blog, she is “Eloise.” In real life,she is a model whose name I don’t know. Thanks for your kind words, I’m glad you enjoyed the post. Blessings… Mary

Comment on The Eloise Cure by Eleena

Eleena — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:18:31 +0000

Who is that lovley young lady at the top of the page? She’s beautiful! I enjoyed the post.

Comment on Life 101 by xiousgeonz

xiousgeonz — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:03:05 +0000

When you said “collect someting” I remembered Bob Brooks’ idea of developing an “Island of competence.” (http://www.ldonline.org/multimedia/transcripts/brooks ) Then you go and say “be an expert about something” — yup! The shrinks agree.