tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post5395734506699044229..comments2023-12-30T17:31:11.883+00:00Comments on The Solitary Walker: Mothers, Nuns And Country PieThe Solitary Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-33627440497882108932009-02-13T08:26:00.000+00:002009-02-13T08:26:00.000+00:00Thanks, Giggles, and welcome along!That Nun's Pray...Thanks, Giggles, and welcome along!<BR/><BR/>That Nun's Prayer seems to have struck a chord with one and all. Could this mean, putting it delicately, that many of my readers are, um, no long in the first blush of youth?The Solitary Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-29390475204607866632009-02-12T16:22:00.000+00:002009-02-12T16:22:00.000+00:00I have come to find you here through Jim at Riverd...I have come to find you here through Jim at Riverdaze....<BR/><BR/>I am sorry for your loss....<BR/><BR/>And I just HAD to share the delight in the Nun's prayer.... I will be writing it somewheres else for myself to visit often. It is ...perfect!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-90398488713109620432009-02-09T13:50:00.000+00:002009-02-09T13:50:00.000+00:00Thanks everyone for these comments.Rachel: 'As far...Thanks everyone for these comments.<BR/><BR/>Rachel: 'As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.' Yes, it's a hard one, that. Impossible, in fact. (The phrase 'as far as possible' is the let-out.)<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the piece in your drawer, Weaver. The thing is, though, I may continue to 'exist' as stardust or atoms or something, but I really would miss so much EVERYTHING in the post-birth, pre-death world.The Solitary Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-59097521232699479422009-02-09T13:03:00.000+00:002009-02-09T13:03:00.000+00:00Robert. Reading Desiderata reminded me of a piec...Robert. Reading Desiderata reminded me of a piece i had in a drawer. I have just been and found it and thought you might like to read it, in the light of your recent loss.<BR/>After Death.<BR/>To me, the honour is sufficient of belonging to The Universe - such a great Universe and so great a Scheme of Things. Not even death can rob me of that honour. For nothing can alter the fact that I have lived; I have been I, if for ever so short a time. And when I am dead, the matter which composes my body is indestructable and eternal, so that come what may to my "soul", my dust will always be going on, each separate atom of me playing its separate part - I shall still have some sort of finger in the pie.<BR/>When I am dead you can boil me, drown me, burn me - but you cannot destroy me; my little atoms would merely deride such heavy vengeance. Death can do no more than kill you.The Weaver of Grasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13947971556343746883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-14610078605282667312009-02-09T03:56:00.000+00:002009-02-09T03:56:00.000+00:00The Nun's Prayeris delightful!The Nun's Prayeris delightful!Lorenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03152302644577926337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-31385028402477931012009-02-08T22:06:00.000+00:002009-02-08T22:06:00.000+00:00Wonderful post indeed !I have the Desiderata in a ...Wonderful post indeed !<BR/><BR/>I have the Desiderata in a picture frame in my room but hadn't read it for sometime - I always enjoy reading it.<BR/>The second piece is an absolute treasure - as Grizzled is doing, I am putting it in my "commonplace book". It does hit the nail doesn't it - it's like the voice of a parent speaking to the rebellious and independence-seeking child...whilst reading it I felt myself rejecting the request to temper myself, but then the cleverly written and humourous follow-up sentences successfully won me over!<BR/><BR/>BellaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-86596659394823494202009-02-08T20:57:00.000+00:002009-02-08T20:57:00.000+00:00I don't know either of these but enjoyed a lot of ...I don't know either of these but enjoyed a lot of their content. I liked this bit<BR/>'As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.' Tricky but interesting.<BR/>xRachel Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11803852725693518924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-76543281383561521602009-02-08T20:15:00.000+00:002009-02-08T20:15:00.000+00:00Sorting one's emotional legacy - and transforming ...Sorting one's emotional legacy - and transforming it. My journey too ...<BR/><BR/>'Keep me reasonably sweet; I do not want to be a Saint ..' Love it!Raph G. Neckmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02468502742144495020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-37318338289880520422009-02-08T18:53:00.000+00:002009-02-08T18:53:00.000+00:00And a fine and wonderful comment, Grizzled!My pare...And a fine and wonderful comment, Grizzled!<BR/><BR/>My parents - fallible like all of us (particularly my father) - left me a mixed and at times difficult emotional legacy (I'm sure a common theme to many) - but it's what we do with it, how we sort it, that matters...<BR/><BR/>Yes, that Nun's Prayer is absolutely, honestly, humorously right on the nail.The Solitary Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-5042597640890503472009-02-08T18:31:00.000+00:002009-02-08T18:31:00.000+00:00I think this is just a wonderful post!The older we...I think this is just a wonderful post!<BR/><BR/>The older we get, the more we understand—and often appreciate—the gifts we receive from our parents. Your mother left you a real and valuable legacy, a love shared of many things, and now this priceless commonplace book. What a dear treasure.<BR/><BR/>I can't say I've ever read either of the pieces you quoted—certainly not the latter. But if there's anything I need to incorporate into my own life, in practically all it's aspects and admonitions, requests and insights, it's this Nun's Prayer. <BR/><BR/>Dear Lord, I see myself, my failings and increasing limitations, in almost every line! I am copying it forthwith onto the flyleaf of my own commonplace book, being meanwhile astonished how it nails me to the barn wall like the skin of a road-killed varmint.<BR/><BR/>Again, a fine post.Grizz…………https://www.blogger.com/profile/04828454689578685330noreply@blogger.com