tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post5001352098872211619..comments2023-02-12T10:34:53.384-06:00Comments on veganelder: The heart asks...veganelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-8458764464459185982012-06-15T14:03:43.523-05:002012-06-15T14:03:43.523-05:00Good Bea...you watch out for thee and I will too. ...Good Bea...you watch out for thee and I will too. :-)veganelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-20150136530337089652012-06-15T09:18:56.714-05:002012-06-15T09:18:56.714-05:00Thanks so much! I have to tell you that your words...Thanks so much! I have to tell you that your words are deeply comforting. You know how the mind does (and doesn't) work sometimes? Often to get things back on track it takes letting go of the troubles that hinder... If one is lucky that grief will be acknowledged and validated and healing thoughts will be replaced instead. You've provided that life-line for me many times. And certainly Bea Elliotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13981537551810309024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-46681402036102634292012-06-15T07:57:39.268-05:002012-06-15T07:57:39.268-05:00Thank you for visiting and commenting Bea. Oh Bea,...Thank you for visiting and commenting Bea. Oh Bea, I've felt a kinship with you from the get-go and am pained and saddened by your difficult (to experience) feelings. I think each of us committed to ending this travesty we visit on our fellow animals are bedeviled by our echoing and resonating with their misery. We've made this beautiful planet into a sad and terrible experience for too veganelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-13090859118671925122012-06-14T00:01:24.747-05:002012-06-14T00:01:24.747-05:00I don't know if I've traveled here - to th...I don't know if I've traveled here - to this post - to these particular words - at just the right time or the worst of times. (?)<br /><br />I've been catching myself lately skirting the edges of burn-out, frustration, futility and despair. Growing weary of the false justifications. Hearing people over and over again lie to me. Lie to themselves. Lie to reality that what we do to Bea Elliotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13981537551810309024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-20580490845752694742012-06-02T07:34:24.365-05:002012-06-02T07:34:24.365-05:00Thank you for commenting DEM. I hope the Italy exp...Thank you for commenting DEM. I hope the Italy experience is great for you.<br /><br />ED can knock my socks off with some of her writing...she's a real treasure.<br /><br />Unless and until I have absolute evidence to the contrary I will presume the other species have much the same mechanisms to defend against disrupting emotionality that we human animals seem to think are possessed by our &veganelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-90001494797097321462012-05-31T14:18:17.079-05:002012-05-31T14:18:17.079-05:00Ah, wonderful stuff! I taught ED this year & ...Ah, wonderful stuff! I taught ED this year & talked about her animal poetry. There's a lot.... A sustained philosophy of the ways in which animals matter ( and remain mysterious). <br /><br />I heard a fly buzz when I died is so great!<br /><br />I try to myself that the animals locked away must sleep a lot. There must be some escape neurologically. :(<br /><br />Thanks for the best Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com