Comments on: My 2009 in Quick Review http://www.aliteralgirl.com/2010/01/my-2009-in-quick-review/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:55:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: My 2010 in Quick Review - A Literal Girl http://www.aliteralgirl.com/2010/01/my-2009-in-quick-review/comment-page-1/#comment-571 My 2010 in Quick Review - A Literal Girl Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:59:02 +0000 http://www.aliteralgirl.com/?p=765#comment-571 [...] started with a journey – first across the Donnington Bridge by bicycle, then to Africa. People write of that first view, of the descent at dawn into Kenya; but I was fast [...] [...] started with a journey – first across the Donnington Bridge by bicycle, then to Africa. People write of that first view, of the descent at dawn into Kenya; but I was fast [...]

]]> By: Cynthia http://www.aliteralgirl.com/2010/01/my-2009-in-quick-review/comment-page-1/#comment-372 Cynthia Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:47:41 +0000 http://www.aliteralgirl.com/?p=765#comment-372 This was beautiful! I agree with Kristina (above): your life sounds downright novelesque, and in the nicest sort of way. I still say you are like Harold and his magic Purple Crayon. You immersed yourself in books and dreamed dreams, then drew a vision and stepped right into it. Your year sounds as lovely as a poem, even in the cold. Looking forward to further chapters and lyrical summations...some of them set where macadamia trees and bougainvillea grow, where sea and sky and Santa Rosa Island are visible through a certain kitchen window, where there is a space just for you on a snuggly couch. This was beautiful! I agree with Kristina (above): your life sounds downright novelesque, and in the nicest sort of way. I still say you are like Harold and his magic Purple Crayon. You immersed yourself in books and dreamed dreams, then drew a vision and stepped right into it. Your year sounds as lovely as a poem, even in the cold. Looking forward to further chapters and lyrical summations…some of them set where macadamia trees and bougainvillea grow, where sea and sky and Santa Rosa Island are visible through a certain kitchen window, where there is a space just for you on a snuggly couch.

]]> By: Kristina http://www.aliteralgirl.com/2010/01/my-2009-in-quick-review/comment-page-1/#comment-368 Kristina Sun, 03 Jan 2010 06:16:31 +0000 http://www.aliteralgirl.com/?p=765#comment-368 "The Man and I celebrated two years together and then went to Hay-on-Wye, where we bought far too many books and had to take them home on the train, which seemed like an appropriate way to mark our anniversary." Do you purposefully try to live your life as a novel or does it just happen? I'd be interested to know because I am extremely jealous. I just learned the bit of advice that was something like, "things don't happen to you, you have to make them happen." In this case, my life is so not like a book and I desperately want it to be. I know everyone has a story in them but I don't have a cabin, and tickets to new york, and irish pubs. So beautifully novelesque. This post was dreamy. “The Man and I celebrated two years together and then went to Hay-on-Wye, where we bought far too many books and had to take them home on the train, which seemed like an appropriate way to mark our anniversary.”

Do you purposefully try to live your life as a novel or does it just happen? I’d be interested to know because I am extremely jealous. I just learned the bit of advice that was something like, “things don’t happen to you, you have to make them happen.” In this case, my life is so not like a book and I desperately want it to be. I know everyone has a story in them but I don’t have a cabin, and tickets to new york, and irish pubs. So beautifully novelesque. This post was dreamy.

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