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Comment on Why Women Must Make Jam by reluctantmemsahib

reluctantmemsahib — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:55:45 +0000

thank you Tash xo thank you.

Comment on Why Women Must Make Jam by Tash

Tash — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:10:28 +0000

Bloody brilliant. That’s all I can say.

Comment on Why Women Must Make Jam by reluctantmemsahib

reluctantmemsahib — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:22:41 +0000

XO for Livvy.

Oh. And a jar of jam x

Comment on Why Women Must Make Jam by livvy u

livvy u — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:18:36 +0000

Gosh, I’m honoured and thrilled that one post of mine brought this beauty of yours! Imagine my suprise to come over and find it! You write with such clarity and elegance and I relate wholeheartedly to everything you have written.

I am so, so glad that I have come back to my blog in this tricky time, not only for the inestimable solace to be found in the writing itself, but also, so importantly, for the solace to be found in the kind and good and wise things that people like yourself write in response.

Thank you so much, for the post, the links and furthering the conversation in my head.

By the way, I haven’t changed my Blogroll yet - but only through time pressure and having to remind myself how to do it!

Best of everything,
Livvy

Comment on Why Women Must Make Jam by reluctantmemsahib

reluctantmemsahib — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:12:10 +0000

Aw Roberta. That’s so kind. Keep gathering, girl. And they call men ‘hunters, gatherers’? Hah! x

Comment on Why Women Must Make Jam by Roberta

Roberta — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:42:31 +0000

I have read a great deal on the subject. I’ve written about it. I’ve cried about it.

I have never read anything as perfect an explaination of what we all go through. I have had such a difficult time trying to explain it to my husband. Now, all I have to do is forward this to him. Maybe it will explain what I can not put into words.

It will at least explain my need to gather food and perserve things.

Comment on The worst kind of worry by reluctantmemsahib

reluctantmemsahib — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:24:52 +0000

that’s a great story Rob! i remember being at a wedding (you’d have been there); we were young. A girl called Mary fainted, standing in the hot sun during the service. Her father dragged her head beneath his black jacket, ”take her into the shade, you fool”, mum was hissing crossly beside me!

Comment on Why Women Must Make Jam by reluctantmemsahib

reluctantmemsahib — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:22:27 +0000

thank you, Rob. I like that saying. Robert Burton in his anatomy of melacholy warned, ”be not idle”. same thing really. empty minds mean there’s too much thinking. which isn’t a good thing x

Comment on The worst kind of worry by Rob

Rob — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:13:34 +0000

I remember fainting once, during church service at primary (boarding) school. I think it was the heat and the constricting tie and blazer. In those days of letter writing I think the incident made it into quite a few letters home that day - it was always difficult to fill up the mandatory two page (double spaced) letter home, so any bit of news made it into our weekly epistles.

Funnily enough a young girl fainted in front of me during another church service more recently during a hot summer day. I certainly felt for the mother who was in a state of panic and the proceedings came to a halt. She came around though a short time later, blissfully unaware of the consternation and panic which had arisen. I think in that case, together with the heat and not drinking enough water, it was probably a sudden standing up which caused the even more sudden falling down.

Comment on Why Women Must Make Jam by Rob

Rob — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:00:52 +0000

Great post. There is a saying out there: “Meaning generates energy, lack of meaning, depression”. I am convinced the only sure way to fight depression is through action/activity/occupation - something which not only gives us purpose but also occupies the mind so that there is less space there to be filled with negative thoughts.