Comments for Fleda Brown

Comment on Who I Write For by Fleda

Fleda — Wed, 16 May 2012 22:11:28 +0000

Yeah, Jerry, I always have a feeling that obfuscation is hiding lack of substance. I am seldom convinced otherwise.

Comment on Who I Write For by Fleda

Fleda — Wed, 16 May 2012 22:09:30 +0000

Thanks, pal. When you talk and read to real people, you begin to get it, I think.

Comment on Who I Write For by Sydney Lea

Sydney Lea — Tue, 15 May 2012 21:10:12 +0000

I couldn’t have said it better myself — and believe me, I have tried. In my role as Vermont’s Poet Laureate (or Low-Rate, as my youngest daughter calls it, I have elected to visit libraries in my state, whose constituents seem much like the PEO ladies: not necessarily inclined to poetry (though not necessarily not). Their questions refresh me, in that they are the basic ones. Who’s talking? To whom? Why? And why does it matter? If my poems can’t answer those questions without help from outside what they say, well, no wonder that so many are disinclined.Brava, as ever, my smartlady!

Comment on Who I Write For by Jerry Dennis

Jerry Dennis — Tue, 15 May 2012 18:23:54 +0000

I’m with you on this, Fleda. A poet (or any writer) who muddies the water with obscuring, unclear, ambiguous language makes me suspect a lack of depth. I can be won over, but it gets the writer and me off to a bad start. And, like you, I’m unlikely to go back and reread.

Comment on Who I Write For by Who? | Sherry Chandler

Who? | Sherry Chandler — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:55:47 +0000

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Comment on Zen Monk Blogger by Fleda

Fleda — Sun, 13 May 2012 18:53:46 +0000

Thanks! I am sure the TEDx talk will be on UTube. When I find out, I’ll let you know.

Comment on Zen Monk Blogger by Lauralee Middleton

Lauralee Middleton — Sat, 12 May 2012 23:38:34 +0000

Thoreau’s Pond in Winter came to mind with Han-Shan’s
“When water is so clear it sparkles
you can see the bottom without effort”

Heaven above and below…and “seeing”.

Enjoying your blog-look forward to seeiing a recording, I hope, of your TEDx talk.

Comment on Zen Monk Blogger by Lauralee Middleton

Lauralee Middleton — Sat, 12 May 2012 23:33:03 +0000

Thoreau’s Pond in Winter came to mind as I read Han-Shan’s
“When water is so clear it sparkles
you can see the bottom without effort”
Heaven above and below…and “seeing”.

Enjoying your blog, Fleda. I hope to be able to view your TEDx talk online -stuck here in Kalamazoo! Best to you.

Comment on Writing About Trivialities by MK

MK — Sat, 05 May 2012 02:32:49 +0000

Hi Fleda, yes, this is Marta. The Pope reference must have been a giveaway! Anyway, your post, and your poem, really resonated with me. The sixth anniversary of my mother’s death was a few days ago, and I’ve been thinking a lot about her and what she went through before she died. And your poem really speaks to me as I’ve been remembering her. So thank you for posting it.

Comment on Writing About Trivialities by Joe

Joe — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:16:35 +0000

There are no coincidences. Having reached that certain age, I am living your poem. What may have been trivialities 20 years ago, are profundities now.
Larry Rosenberg says in his book, Living in the Light of Death, “If we could really grasp what the Buddha taught, we could deeply see the truth of aging and death.”
That being said, I hope to deal with the profundities of life for quite some time. Thanks Fleda for your thoughts.