tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post68546639864903092..comments2023-06-28T22:58:28.247+10:00Comments on Sixth In Line: Another pair of eyesElisabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04015624747225433940noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-87004672670197091582009-11-17T21:53:08.190+11:002009-11-17T21:53:08.190+11:00You said the boys were more attention seeking than...You said the boys were more attention seeking than the girls at school. Come to think of it: yes, in my class the boys were noisier and often more complicated than the girls. They needed a lot of attention. Thanks for your visit Elisabeth, and good luck with all the birthdays!Reader Wilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06384603525251159272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-31366048718968316792009-11-16T06:17:03.065+11:002009-11-16T06:17:03.065+11:00And your feeling about being glad of your distract...And your feeling about being glad of your distractions, I totally agree...some "particular" distraction, I have experienced, brings a poem. Poems exploit the chinks in between the regular rhythms and love distractions...<br />I "court" them in a way, "having a head in the clouds" is what teachers told me to scold me. How boring and useless they were.<br />Let's bless instead all bright cloud-headed "untaught" heads.Tommaso Gervasuttihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17137499390434949734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-42476887909509523382009-11-16T06:02:37.805+11:002009-11-16T06:02:37.805+11:00Dear Elisabeth, your post has reminded me of the d...Dear Elisabeth, your post has reminded me of the difficult relation I had with my father and Larkin's quote: how true, like all his poetry, he has been probably the best one in transforming into poetry hard and bitter truths.<br />Your post makes me wish to post in mine poems about my parents...<br /><br />I am glad you enjoyed "Lampedusa".Tommaso Gervasuttihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17137499390434949734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-72184476741058082462009-11-15T23:17:16.230+11:002009-11-15T23:17:16.230+11:00Ahhh, what a beautiful post! In my household we sh...Ahhh, what a beautiful post! In my household we share our birthdays across the seasons. My son is winter, my daughter spring, my wife is summer and I am autumn (tomorrow,a ctually, thanks for your congratulations and happy birthday to you, too, belatedly). As for children and ADD, agree with you wholeheartedly, the way we live our modern lives is conducive to a reduction in our attention span and other maladies.<br /><br />Many thanks for popping by my blog and have a fab week.<br /><br />Greetings from London.A Cuban In Londonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16423293358605007539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-1180047197090743032009-11-15T22:23:07.922+11:002009-11-15T22:23:07.922+11:00I think the traits we sometimes ascribe to childre...I think the traits we sometimes ascribe to children are specific to certain situations: the English teacher find's him lazy, but the P.E. teacher doesn't, the math teacher thinks him hyper-active, but not the craft teacher. I'm the same, come to think of it!Dave Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08430484174826768488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-79728290822720820262009-11-15T18:56:17.201+11:002009-11-15T18:56:17.201+11:00I think I see where you're going Rick and I ag...I think I see where you're going Rick and I agree. <br /><br />I scarcely read the print newspapers these days because I am more selective about how I will be bombarded. <br /><br />We do not possess a television, but we watch DVDs on the computer screen and I blog, these days incessantly. I learn a great deal about contemporary events in this way. <br /><br />I listen to the news reports a couple of times each day when I ferry my youngest daughter to or from school and when I'm out on other jobs, for shopping, for work etc. I keep abreast in this way. <br /><br />My children tell me when something monumental is afoot. In this way matters are filtered for me somewhat, otherwise I think I'd go mad. <br /><br />There's too much to notice in the world and I am something of a magpie, to begin with. I collect information that might be useful for me, but it can become overwhelming at times. <br /><br />I often have to cull it or else I might fall out of my already overcrowded nest.Elisabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04015624747225433940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-4739702153980946172009-11-15T13:42:53.159+11:002009-11-15T13:42:53.159+11:00Elisabeth, I wonder if we are changing to grope wi...Elisabeth, I wonder if we are changing to grope with a world we have changed without fully understand the impact of what we were putting in motion. And we are paying attention to such different things than our parents do. The social linkages that once held us together are replaced by electronic demands that are quite urgent compared the community demands from earlier days. Once we waited for newspapers before we could learn the news. Now we have more news coming at us than we feel equipped to handle, if you see where I'm going.<br /><br />Thoughtful post, by the way.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14546882686381428986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-47028293804599410492009-11-15T11:30:50.510+11:002009-11-15T11:30:50.510+11:00Thanks Nazia.
Perhaps it comes about because we a...Thanks Nazia.<br /><br />Perhaps it comes about because we are also so busy, too busy. It puts me in mind of your search for solitude. <br /><br />You at least can let yourself find it. I perhaps run from it.Elisabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04015624747225433940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-77631704539122749942009-11-15T02:05:19.611+11:002009-11-15T02:05:19.611+11:00I love the way you say, "we all need to be ce...I love the way you say, "we all need to be celebrated from time to time"<br />Yes, don't we? <br /><br />And how often we forget to celebrate ourselves and wait for others to remind us how special we are. I think it is natural human instinct, to crave attention, no matter how self sufficient we are, apparently.<br /><br />I feel I suffer from attention deficit too, sometimes...Nazia Mallickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17849630337027710899noreply@blogger.com