tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post4730379718146376365..comments2023-10-25T05:30:54.507-04:00Comments on Oh Get A Grip!: InspirationAshe Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03390519279886657608noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-38142455663210692312015-07-01T08:23:29.661-04:002015-07-01T08:23:29.661-04:00Fingers crossed for the story, Jean. I'd like ...Fingers crossed for the story, Jean. I'd like to read the rest!<br /><br />I've always been near mountains and/or water, and can't really imagine life without them. And I discovered a few years ago that the one place in the world where I can really sleep is in the shadow of the mountain where I grew up. There is something about that presence.<br /><br />I love the photos in your post, by the way!Annabeth Leonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07455191827664110878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-65519730319211557282015-06-20T02:09:31.966-04:002015-06-20T02:09:31.966-04:00Lisabet, I felt uncomfortable on the vast, flat pr...Lisabet, I felt uncomfortable on the vast, flat prairie when I first moved here as a teenager. I've been told that some people, esp. from elsewhere, experience a kind of agoraphobia here. On the other hand, it used to be a popular place to shoot movies for 2 reasons: - the local gov't offered a film tax credit (now gone), and the prairies can be made to look like anywhere else, esp. with digital imaging. Daddy X, yes, I posted the whole story on ERWA many months ago, hoping it would be accepted for the Halloween edition of the website. (It wasn't.) For some reason, the formatting was messed up, and I suspect this discouraged some folks from reading all the way to the end. (I recently sent this story out in response to a cfs.)<br />Thanks for the comments, all. Interesting theory about gazing at mountains. My eyesight was much better when I had mountains to gaze at every day, but I was also much younger then.Jean Robertahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08805088081675965859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-82814762931927725372015-06-19T23:21:50.361-04:002015-06-19T23:21:50.361-04:00Oh yes. Nothing is so evocative as the scent of pi...Oh yes. Nothing is so evocative as the scent of pine resin. Or pine needles baking in the sun... brings me back to summer camp years.Lisabet Saraihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05162514190572269660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-10323808156894630292015-06-19T23:20:38.734-04:002015-06-19T23:20:38.734-04:00Beautiful post, Jean!
I feel uncomfortable in pl...Beautiful post, Jean! <br /><br />I feel uncomfortable in places without mountains or the sea. I remember the first time I flew across the country -- well, to Missouri, anyway -- as an adult. I looked down out at the flat emptiness of the great plains and felt a sense of panic to be so far from the ocean. (I grew up in New England, which has minor mountains -- well, hills, by some people's standards -- and a long, long coastline.) <br /><br />Lisabet Saraihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05162514190572269660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-80662457169856015352015-06-19T23:17:56.384-04:002015-06-19T23:17:56.384-04:00Great theory, Daddy! It would explain a lot about ...Great theory, Daddy! It would explain a lot about the way things are in the US.Lisabet Saraihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05162514190572269660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-36155961176403722552015-06-19T22:26:21.168-04:002015-06-19T22:26:21.168-04:00Intriguing excerpt! I'd love to see where the ...Intriguing excerpt! I'd love to see where the story goes. <br /><br />I find that the scents of different kinds of woodlands are powerful stimuli. The dry leaves or damp leaf mold under hardwoods like maples and oaks, the sharper scent of pine and spruce and the intensely evocative aroma of balsam fir, the essence of Christmas, but also of deep forests. And then there are the many varieties of ferns, each with their own scent, from acrid to sweet.Sacchi Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10801164916418570059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-90302208929369886932015-06-19T21:19:55.687-04:002015-06-19T21:19:55.687-04:00"They", whoever 'they' are, say ..."They", whoever 'they' are, say that you can relax your eyes by looking in the distance. One of my squirrely theories is that's why people who live in hilly or mountainous regions can be more content than in flat places. If there are buildings in flat areas, that's all we see, things that are up close. Whereas even with houses and other buildings, we can still view long panoramas toward the mountains.<br /><br />Take Texas for example. Everybody seems pissed off there. And Kansas. And Oklahoma.<br /><br />And yes, sweet excerpt. Sounds familiar. Did you post this on ERWA at some point?Daddy Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12927663248424944119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-51332520339695914242015-06-19T19:57:16.514-04:002015-06-19T19:57:16.514-04:00Lovely excerpt Jean - I can see how beautiful scen...Lovely excerpt Jean - I can see how beautiful scenery can inspire. Often I crave for a time back in Scotland where there is similar beauty in the mountains and glens - wasted on me at the time, I'm afraid. Now just distant memories.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10305127219838784688noreply@blogger.com