tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400078448867068387.post1865883083852370224..comments2023-09-26T05:33:04.420-07:00Comments on Marylinn Kelly: What we are not (good news)Marylinn Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02759437467691163658noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400078448867068387.post-44736842980419750462012-02-21T07:46:27.049-08:002012-02-21T07:46:27.049-08:00Denise - There is much around us that brings on am...Denise - There is much around us that brings on amnesia, forgetting the essential and the true. How fortunate that we have become a circle, able to remind each other. <br /><br />However, just now Googling Margaret Atwood, Twitter and Facebook feel unseemly...the work of her publisher(s). Welcome to the world of 2012. xoMarylinn Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02759437467691163658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400078448867068387.post-18242399501479363152012-02-21T07:39:31.498-08:002012-02-21T07:39:31.498-08:00Sherry - Thank you. Way too long feeling consign...Sherry - Thank you. Way too long feeling consigned to some gulag of the spirit, a product of limited, limiting vision without and within. xoMarylinn Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02759437467691163658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400078448867068387.post-66381165756065667362012-02-21T07:36:03.719-08:002012-02-21T07:36:03.719-08:00Jayne - The word transcendent comes to me reading ...Jayne - The word transcendent comes to me reading your comment, for we do rise above and/or beyond, without denying, injury, injustice, accident, illness, reversal of fortune. It is a process of prolonged stillness and the awareness of love without strings that helps us inch forward. Looking closely. xoMarylinn Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02759437467691163658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400078448867068387.post-88104229899687320192012-02-21T02:13:49.231-08:002012-02-21T02:13:49.231-08:00I've always liked Margaret Atwood,
now I like...I've always liked Margaret Atwood,<br /><br />now I like her even more.<br /><br />good to be reminded we are not our story, I forget that too..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400078448867068387.post-26719707768923407922012-02-20T14:30:47.615-08:002012-02-20T14:30:47.615-08:00'i never was my story'. yes yes. because w...'i never was my story'. yes yes. because we are organic, nothing, not even the stories, can entirely contain us. courage, with courage, we learn we are not limited to our wounds. love this post, marylinn.<br /><br />sherrySherry O'Keefehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17152741915467896923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400078448867068387.post-48087056202791333962012-02-20T08:07:43.198-08:002012-02-20T08:07:43.198-08:00"Life is a skill with the longest learning cu..."Life is a skill with the longest learning curve..." Boy, isn't that the truth. <br /><br />I was just visiting a blogger who tackled this very subject in a different way. But, I think her findings were quite similar. Regardless of past happenings--what we did or was done to us--we write our own story. This is can be a difficult truth to face: We don't have to be stuck in our story. We can write our own story! The hidden story, the story that we rise from. The real story. But we must look closely. Ever so closely.Jaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06694559900539722616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400078448867068387.post-69031903827852198942012-02-19T13:24:14.870-08:002012-02-19T13:24:14.870-08:00Dear Rebecca, We ARE still here. We keep telling ...Dear Rebecca, We ARE still here. We keep telling our story until it no longer fits, which for me was about 5 minutes ago. No one will ever convince me that impossible things don't happen. Love, MarylinnMarylinn Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02759437467691163658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400078448867068387.post-90663859621885335922012-02-19T13:14:44.067-08:002012-02-19T13:14:44.067-08:00Lisa - Thank you, me and countless alter egos. I ...Lisa - Thank you, me and countless alter egos. I do believe the Photoshop ship has sailed. For me. xoMarylinn Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02759437467691163658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400078448867068387.post-84426140655843403722012-02-19T12:02:15.389-08:002012-02-19T12:02:15.389-08:00Dear Marylinn, I don't know. I just don't ...Dear Marylinn, I don't know. I just don't know. For me writing it and writing it and writing it helps squeeze the poison out of me. This post makes me somewhat embarrassed for you for what you might read on my blog wherein I write my story over and over and over. I just don't know. I do however know that when I think about being old and getting older I always think <i>I'm still here.</i> I have survived it. <br />love,<br />RebeccaRadish Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06534752971317927559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400078448867068387.post-73756882658268262522012-02-19T11:33:58.998-08:002012-02-19T11:33:58.998-08:00THIS is the place to come when I need a shot of sa...THIS is the place to come when I need a shot of sanity and wisdom. If I didn't know you personally, I'd doubt that someone this wise, with THIS sense of humor, was real, or at the very least, a team of several writers.<br />It's you. Just you Marylinn. ALL you.<br />Photoshop indeed *bangs head on computer screen*Lisa Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06923756733089781360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400078448867068387.post-30422441904422177202012-02-19T10:49:55.726-08:002012-02-19T10:49:55.726-08:00Kleinste Motte - I suppose that's so, or its r...Kleinste Motte - I suppose that's so, or its reverse, which I can't say in Latin, of we are not, thank goodness, who we thought we were, if that makes any sense. :)Marylinn Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02759437467691163658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400078448867068387.post-20094139629484322262012-02-19T10:48:18.768-08:002012-02-19T10:48:18.768-08:00Kerry - The events contribute to the whole, of cou...Kerry - The events contribute to the whole, of course, but if one comes from a history that includes abuse, trauma, unavoidable victimization, it seems the order of things to take that story and hold onto it as an identity. We are not our wounds. xoMarylinn Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02759437467691163658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400078448867068387.post-18886963267294624682012-02-19T10:43:30.481-08:002012-02-19T10:43:30.481-08:00Melissa - The wish to learn Photoshop, balanced wi...Melissa - The wish to learn Photoshop, balanced with its cost and its, shall we say, challenging aspects have turned it into an icon for goals-unlikely-to-be-realized.<br /> <br />Vocabulary and thought play such a significant role in our self-definition. Early labels or inaccurate assessments, causing us to see ourselves as limited or less than whole have no place in an authentic life. Time for the new, the true story. xoMarylinn Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02759437467691163658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400078448867068387.post-68821874328097881492012-02-18T16:28:23.773-08:002012-02-18T16:28:23.773-08:00Cogito ergo sum. That would be the toal of what yo...Cogito ergo sum. That would be the toal of what you say.Heidrun Khokhar, KleinsteMottehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16174142810114806410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400078448867068387.post-48097250248670501702012-02-18T15:38:57.849-08:002012-02-18T15:38:57.849-08:00But it's with all of these stories which help ...But it's with all of these stories which help make up the authentic self and who we've become through the souls of our traveling shoes...Kerry O'Gormanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14951445594586971908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400078448867068387.post-39648234710801940512012-02-18T15:31:17.219-08:002012-02-18T15:31:17.219-08:00Dearest Marylinn,
I had to guffaw when you mention...Dearest Marylinn,<br />I had to guffaw when you mentioned Photoshop!! It's so very true and so hard to remember--that what happened to us is not the same as who we are. The past is over, most of the people who hurt us are gone. We are single-mindedly ourselves, as we are, 'still here' and the narrative is a sort of thorny vine that twines around us as we try to get on with our lives, but they live beside us--they are NOT us. Beautifully put, as always, M. xoMelissa Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03270919534011711225noreply@blogger.com