Comments on: Secrets and Pieces http://journeymama.com/2007/10/11/secrets-and-pieces/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:12:47 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Secrets and Pieces http://journeymama.com/2007/10/11/secrets-and-pieces/comment-page-1/#comment-11942 Secrets and Pieces Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:01:16 +0000 http://journeymama.com/2007/10/10/secrets-and-pieces/#comment-11942 [...] This is the cached version of http://journeymama.com/2007/10/11/secrets-and-pieces/ We are neither affiliated with the authors of this page nor responsible for its content. [...] [...] This is the cached version of http://journeymama.com/2007/10/11/secrets-and-pieces/ We are neither affiliated with the authors of this page nor responsible for its content. [...]

]]> By: marian http://journeymama.com/2007/10/11/secrets-and-pieces/comment-page-1/#comment-7873 marian Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:34:23 +0000 http://journeymama.com/2007/10/10/secrets-and-pieces/#comment-7873 I wasn't able to actually open up your page to comment when I first read this in bloglines, but today I'm in... I just wanted to say that this poem is so, so lovely. I can relate. Thank you for sharing it. I wasn’t able to actually open up your page to comment when I first read this in bloglines, but today I’m in… I just wanted to say that this poem is so, so lovely. I can relate. Thank you for sharing it.

]]> By: carrien http://journeymama.com/2007/10/11/secrets-and-pieces/comment-page-1/#comment-7770 carrien Sat, 13 Oct 2007 06:23:47 +0000 http://journeymama.com/2007/10/10/secrets-and-pieces/#comment-7770 Exactly. I so often feel the same. I will miss simply knowing you are at the land, kind of like knowing there is a home to go to. It seems so vacant in my minds eye now. Sigh, maybe in India? LOve you. Exactly.

I so often feel the same.

I will miss simply knowing you are at the land, kind of like knowing there is a home to go to. It seems so vacant in my minds eye now.

Sigh, maybe in India?

LOve you.

]]> By: Amy http://journeymama.com/2007/10/11/secrets-and-pieces/comment-page-1/#comment-7763 Amy Sat, 13 Oct 2007 02:22:22 +0000 http://journeymama.com/2007/10/10/secrets-and-pieces/#comment-7763 I've posted before, I think, I found you through Lifenut. Thank you for this post. I relate. For the first 18 years of my life I lived in a town in the desert. Then I moved on to college, and moved every year I was there. After that, around the world and back, to the upper midwest, then all the way to the west coast, then around the world again, then back to the west coast, then in with my love, then moving back to that desert town, which, as it turned out, held my heart, but not my dreams, then back west, then again. I've been my most recent place for two years. All the people I have known and places I have been are inside me, but I can't always connect them to the people and place where I am right now. As a mom, I'm aware that the places I walk with my kids, this street, that park, that store are places I will not always go, or see in the same way, so even if I never move again they will be missed. Life is fleeting and bittersweet and the revolving door of experience that excited me so much in my twenties, sometimes tires me out now, I want to stand still, for longer than any moment will allow. It's impossible. So, I believe the right approach is to keep moving, making new moments, savoring connections when you can -- even though each move is harder because you have to carry the memory of your most recent place with you while you leave a part of yourself behind. I don't know you, but I gather you're on your way to your next place and I think you will do fine. I’ve posted before, I think, I found you through Lifenut. Thank you for this post. I relate. For the first 18 years of my life I lived in a town in the desert. Then I moved on to college, and moved every year I was there. After that, around the world and back, to the upper midwest, then all the way to the west coast, then around the world again, then back to the west coast, then in with my love, then moving back to that desert town, which, as it turned out, held my heart, but not my dreams, then back west, then again. I’ve been my most recent place for two years. All the people I have known and places I have been are inside me, but I can’t always connect them to the people and place where I am right now. As a mom, I’m aware that the places I walk with my kids, this street, that park, that store are places I will not always go, or see in the same way, so even if I never move again they will be missed. Life is fleeting and bittersweet and the revolving door of experience that excited me so much in my twenties, sometimes tires me out now, I want to stand still, for longer than any moment will allow. It’s impossible. So, I believe the right approach is to keep moving, making new moments, savoring connections when you can — even though each move is harder because you have to carry the memory of your most recent place with you while you leave a part of yourself behind. I don’t know you, but I gather you’re on your way to your next place and I think you will do fine.

]]> By: bubandpie http://journeymama.com/2007/10/11/secrets-and-pieces/comment-page-1/#comment-7762 bubandpie Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:49:17 +0000 http://journeymama.com/2007/10/10/secrets-and-pieces/#comment-7762 I love the Barenaked Ladies song "The Old Apartment" - I feel that way too, about places I've lived and the parts of myself I've left there. I love the Barenaked Ladies song “The Old Apartment” – I feel that way too, about places I’ve lived and the parts of myself I’ve left there.

]]> By: Lara http://journeymama.com/2007/10/11/secrets-and-pieces/comment-page-1/#comment-7748 Lara Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:53:07 +0000 http://journeymama.com/2007/10/10/secrets-and-pieces/#comment-7748 Dude. Get a tattoo. Let me be there for it. Infact get many tattoos. Get several. Get one of the old house in SanFranciso. Do it. Get more and more and more. Or just ge the one. Just saying is all. Dude. Get a tattoo. Let me be there for it.
Infact get many tattoos.
Get several. Get one of the old house in SanFranciso.
Do it.
Get more and more and more.
Or just ge the one.
Just saying is all.

]]> By: Mrs. G. http://journeymama.com/2007/10/11/secrets-and-pieces/comment-page-1/#comment-7730 Mrs. G. Fri, 12 Oct 2007 03:11:46 +0000 http://journeymama.com/2007/10/10/secrets-and-pieces/#comment-7730 Wow. Nice post. I love the Pacific Northwest, but I still carry around huge chunks of my childhood South. I miss fireflies, thunder, locusts, the Mississippi River and gravy. Wow. Nice post. I love the Pacific Northwest, but I still carry around huge chunks of my childhood South. I miss fireflies, thunder, locusts, the Mississippi River and gravy.

]]> By: #1mama http://journeymama.com/2007/10/11/secrets-and-pieces/comment-page-1/#comment-7725 #1mama Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:10:59 +0000 http://journeymama.com/2007/10/10/secrets-and-pieces/#comment-7725 I know how you feel! I feel that way too.... so many places, so many houses and so many memories. I think though that we are on a journey, and this place is not our home, and sometimes when I just long for a place where I can make roots, I have to remember that....not that I am not aiming to have a little cottage house somewhere - possibly the island which is my base, where I can go to and fro from. But because my heart is so mission minded, I may never attain that, and because God is my home, I can have peace in that. I love that poem!!! Thanks for sharing that! You are amazing, wise beyond your years. You don't even have the gray hair that goes with it! I know how you feel! I feel that way too…. so many places, so many houses and so many memories. I think though that we are on a journey, and this place is not our home, and sometimes when I just long for a place where I can make roots, I have to remember that….not that I am not aiming to have a little cottage house somewhere – possibly the island which is my base, where I can go to and fro from. But because my heart is so mission minded, I may never attain that, and because God is my home, I can have peace in that.

I love that poem!!! Thanks for sharing that! You are amazing, wise beyond your years. You don’t even have the gray hair that goes with it!

]]> By: kelly http://journeymama.com/2007/10/11/secrets-and-pieces/comment-page-1/#comment-7723 kelly Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:06:30 +0000 http://journeymama.com/2007/10/10/secrets-and-pieces/#comment-7723 goodness, I relate to this in a way that makes me tremble. So much. goodness, I relate to this in a way that makes me tremble. So much.

]]> By: jessie http://journeymama.com/2007/10/11/secrets-and-pieces/comment-page-1/#comment-7721 jessie Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:47:17 +0000 http://journeymama.com/2007/10/10/secrets-and-pieces/#comment-7721 What a beautiful poem. It made me think of all the places I have been and left a part of me. We are going to the city on Tuesday and I wanted to know where that wonderful coffee shop was that you and Renee went to. If you get a chance let me know. Thanks. I hope your visit is wonderful. What a beautiful poem. It made me think of all the places I have been and left a part of me. We are going to the city on Tuesday and I wanted to know where that wonderful coffee shop was that you and Renee went to. If you get a chance let me know. Thanks. I hope your visit is wonderful.

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