tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767484157936178574.post5478269893161470575..comments2023-10-24T09:29:32.492-04:00Comments on the golden fish: deliquescencestevenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14132104804524716898noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767484157936178574.post-77742929790196373482009-08-28T23:08:20.187-04:002009-08-28T23:08:20.187-04:00Steven
I have just read your post above and have ...Steven<br /><br />I have just read your post above and have been wondering over the short period since your followers and comments grew by geometric proportions, just how you will manage that feat of return correspondence. <br /><br />As you know replying to every visitor has always been a trademark of mine because I really enjoy that sharing time and the way that the comments add to enlargen, deepen and extend the subject matter...<br /><br />I find that really exciting and enriching. I also feel that it is courteous and forges a greater depth of connection with our readers. If I drop a comment on a post and there is no response as there often isn't, then I wonder if it fell on deaf ears, or am I taking to myself, or even wasting my time.<br /><br />So I value your feedback and also love to give it my self.<br /><br />HOWEVER it takes a lot of time. I spent two hours writing yesterday due to the wonderful response to the questions both Bonnie and I posed...and while I loved to do it and have the time at present I can see that you will not. <br /><br />I find that I can spend another hour or two just reading and commenting on other blogs in the evenings, and their there is all the composition time and photography time too.<br /><br />I think that my life has become one of blogging but that is Ok...I still do the other things I need to<br />and have a wonderful time out in Nature... <br /><br />Do what you can, don't feel you need to respond or you will feel pressured and overtax yourself...and you need your beauty sleep too...<br /><br />One solution I have thought of is to do the visiting round of blogs every other day ...that may help...<br /><br />I enjoy your posts, your company and your friendship thanks Steven<br /><br />Happy days...Delwynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16813713107604750354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767484157936178574.post-26698956909785779002009-08-28T22:15:12.201-04:002009-08-28T22:15:12.201-04:00Hi Steven! A very interesting connection of ideas...Hi Steven! A very interesting connection of ideas made manifest in different ways. the purple rain dissolving into teal drops and then lime. the blurring of pink and lavender foliage. the softness of a constantly changing flame. And who can't visualize the coming together of very disparate people in Chaucer's Tales? I have another example from something I did as a teacher with my class: We put water in different shaped plastic containers, added different food coloring to each container, and put them outside in the winter to freeze. The next day we built an ice castle from all the frozen water. They would melt-and-freeze, melt-and-freeze throughout the cold spell: the final version a flowing, multi-colored ice fantasy. Deliquescence! Steven, good luck as your new school year begins. Best, MargaretMargaret Pangerthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09995968579194433270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767484157936178574.post-16455668599918957082009-08-28T19:38:41.761-04:002009-08-28T19:38:41.761-04:00hello delwyn - i missed your comment this morning ...hello delwyn - i missed your comment this morning and i am terribly sorry. yes, i love words - they're often all we have and certainly as bloggers there's words and pictures and that's it - well there's more but that's harder to define!!!!! so i'd be a word lover and a wordsmith which is such a lovely job title. "wordsmith" . . . i'd love to have that on a polished stone on the ground out front. need a lovely word that only you will know about and understand. then come on in . . . . !!!!<br />have a lovely late evening by the river delwyn. stevenstevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14132104804524716898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767484157936178574.post-5781374042612743842009-08-28T18:07:11.957-04:002009-08-28T18:07:11.957-04:00hello linda, it's lovely to have you visit her...hello linda, it's lovely to have you visit here. you understand what i say and do but see it in a way that allows me to step back from it and really get to know it. i hope that that makes sense!! i've always loved words linda, i believe that a good vocabulary, good manners, an appreciation for the blessings that go with simply being alive and a half-decent work ethic will take a person a very long way towards a happy life!!! there's more of course - much more but that's all fine-tuning that comes with age and experience!!!! have a gentle evening and i wish you peacefulness after your stressful day. you and barry so deserve it. stevenstevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14132104804524716898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767484157936178574.post-78623207600069628262009-08-28T18:01:34.565-04:002009-08-28T18:01:34.565-04:00hello margie and welcome. i'm so glad you were...hello margie and welcome. i'm so glad you were able to drop by for a visit!!! i love writing and illustrating this blog - i truly do!! it's not just fun but it's also one creative outlet i have that gives me some contact with other people. i'm so glad you dropped by and i hope to see you again. stevenstevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14132104804524716898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767484157936178574.post-80633673586063644542009-08-28T17:59:10.095-04:002009-08-28T17:59:10.095-04:00yes weaver, it's my favourite of the three. h...yes weaver, it's my favourite of the three. have a lovely evening in the dale. stevenstevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14132104804524716898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767484157936178574.post-61578406047520951292009-08-28T17:58:44.446-04:002009-08-28T17:58:44.446-04:00hello joanna, and hello again! i appreciate your s...hello joanna, and hello again! i appreciate your supportive comments!! thanks for the link to "the other blog" those pictures are reall clever and lovely!!!! wow!! have a lovely evening. stevenstevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14132104804524716898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767484157936178574.post-86606229858773192892009-08-28T17:56:11.145-04:002009-08-28T17:56:11.145-04:00hi jenn, i love the accidents, the thrill of doing...hi jenn, i love the accidents, the thrill of doing something that feels pro (and probably isn't but who really cares?!! not me!!), or just something that cranks us right up and makes us feel proud of capturing something oh so cool that we can share with adoring, family members, tolerant friends, and bemused bloggy chums!!!! thanks for you lovely comment jenn. stevenstevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14132104804524716898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767484157936178574.post-35674135733314667162009-08-28T17:54:13.797-04:002009-08-28T17:54:13.797-04:00hello hope- cacophony. you know what when i was st...hello hope- cacophony. you know what when i was starting to strecth my legs as a kid and really getting my parent's attention, i listened to a lot of edgy music - i still do - but it was really really out of place in their household - and my dad used that word "it's nothing but cacophony" and i thought "man just say that it's noisy, doesn't make sense to you, you don't like it, it's rubbish . . . anything but a word that make me feel like laughing!!!!" <br />my fave photo of these three is the rose melting into the flowers around it in the night. have a lovely evening. stevenstevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14132104804524716898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767484157936178574.post-17012610156302714422009-08-28T17:26:55.314-04:002009-08-28T17:26:55.314-04:00hi kay - ohh it's nothing to do with "sma...hi kay - ohh it's nothing to do with "smart", it's all to do with the fortune of finding the word, seeing how it tells about something other than what it's been restricted to and releasing it from it's semantic prison!!!! i love those dreamy photos as well. i should tell what they were taken of but that might colour the impression they give. have a peaceful evening. stevenstevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14132104804524716898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767484157936178574.post-39519011770295005502009-08-28T17:23:20.821-04:002009-08-28T17:23:20.821-04:00hi willow, i love words and try to lock them in my...hi willow, i love words and try to lock them in my head and then throw them out enough that i get used to them and then they flow out of my mouth like any other word and people puzzle and wonder "hmmm, was that real? was that a word i should know? or they think - this boys wacked!!!!" have a lovely evening at the manor!! stevenstevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14132104804524716898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767484157936178574.post-69986360877439841922009-08-28T17:17:05.721-04:002009-08-28T17:17:05.721-04:00Intriguing post, Steven. Words are extraorinary th...Intriguing post, Steven. Words are extraorinary things - stand alone items and building blocks that link in to a chain in all manner of curious ways.<br /><br />May I nominate you for a Kreativ Blogger Award? To see what this entails, please see my post <a href="http://carolinegillpoetry.blogspot.com/2009/08/creative-corner-6-kreativ-blogger-award.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>... (you may already have received this, of course...)<br /><br />Best wishes for the w/e,<br />CarolineCaroline Gillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05203454486693014969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767484157936178574.post-39458744306731802982009-08-28T17:16:48.769-04:002009-08-28T17:16:48.769-04:00hi tammielee, i create words and i also take words...hi tammielee, i create words and i also take words like deliquescent and fit them into a way of being / seeing. there are spaces in-between the dualities we use to understand/ describe our world that need special words to describe or explain them. so we make them and we illustrate them with paintings, photographs, music, dance whatever it takes!!! thankyou for your kind comment. see you again. stevenstevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14132104804524716898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767484157936178574.post-69097738173850643572009-08-28T17:07:33.434-04:002009-08-28T17:07:33.434-04:00hi titus, yes a bit trippy. i catch myself valuing...hi titus, yes a bit trippy. i catch myself valuing the spaces between things more than the things themselves. so blurry images take on more value for me than the actualy source image. that sort of thing. i misread a passage but it glows in isolation....... thanks for your kind comment. see you soon. stevenstevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14132104804524716898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767484157936178574.post-59753605774997714292009-08-28T17:06:06.636-04:002009-08-28T17:06:06.636-04:00acornmoon is ee words that kids "create"...acornmoon is ee words that kids "create" which are more often mispronunciations, or mispellings and i love them because they are usually closer to the point. i should collect them and use them but it's something that happens inside a very quick moment isn't it!!! thanks for visiting. stevenstevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14132104804524716898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767484157936178574.post-212180310177127812009-08-28T17:04:39.293-04:002009-08-28T17:04:39.293-04:00abe - i've seen that word. i saw a show that f...abe - i've seen that word. i saw a show that featured that process - the disappearance of ice on below zero days. i know what you mean but the blasted word has floated way into my left brain? man i wish it was easy to remember like it is for my computer!!!! ahhh you make me laugh abe!!! thanks for your comment here. stevenstevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14132104804524716898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767484157936178574.post-64621716884556782362009-08-28T16:29:56.224-04:002009-08-28T16:29:56.224-04:00I loved Delwyn's observations. I agree that yo...I loved Delwyn's observations. I agree that you are a wordsmith, and you are creative and playful with language. Your post and the destructured pictures are restful to peruse and flow through. I needed this <br />de-stressor today. Thank you Steven and have a lovely weekend.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03241402645242821612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767484157936178574.post-78723506010569785492009-08-28T15:32:21.643-04:002009-08-28T15:32:21.643-04:00Oh, loved your words & images!
Beautiful blog ...Oh, loved your words & images!<br />Beautiful blog you have!<br /><br />Margie:)Margiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14433759763753850718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767484157936178574.post-3684180107560119392009-08-28T14:38:37.533-04:002009-08-28T14:38:37.533-04:00The colours in that last photograph are just wonde...The colours in that last photograph are just wonderful steven.The Weaver of Grasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13947971556343746883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767484157936178574.post-4642970514194213452009-08-28T12:36:18.664-04:002009-08-28T12:36:18.664-04:00Me again. Just thought you might like to see the ...Me again. Just thought you might like to see the photograph on this blog: http://thememoryofrain.blogspot.com/Joannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16449827163911239893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767484157936178574.post-1308237905192850382009-08-28T12:30:23.830-04:002009-08-28T12:30:23.830-04:00What a great post, Steven. I love the expansion o...What a great post, Steven. I love the expansion of the meaning of deliquescence into ideas--it's beautiful. As are those photographs. I really like colours in the first one--well in all of them--deliquescing one into another.Joannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16449827163911239893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767484157936178574.post-82313434671145974832009-08-28T11:49:31.953-04:002009-08-28T11:49:31.953-04:00I was pondering photography the other day. The bes...I was pondering photography the other day. The best photos might be planned - at least the ones that get the most attention & money, but we amateurs have so much fun when something delightful happens. <br /><br />I have some photos of light bouncing off the waves that I must do something with.<br /><br />Much more sophisticated to plan it, do it and then name it!Jenn Jilkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05259681360456905055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767484157936178574.post-25628892406694714522009-08-28T11:34:40.286-04:002009-08-28T11:34:40.286-04:00So THAT'S why I love it here so much...you'...So THAT'S why I love it here so much...you're happy playing with words too. :)<br /><br />The first time I realized that words really caught my ear past the initial pronunciation was the day we learned "cacophony". I think I went around saying it for days. <br /><br />Maybe it's the colors, but I find the first photo comforting somehow..as if rain and the ocean were somehow mixed into a soothing sound to be appreciated by the eyes.<br /><br />Have a great weekend!hopehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03306622656461205674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767484157936178574.post-62357477528334778232009-08-28T10:50:37.136-04:002009-08-28T10:50:37.136-04:00I wish I was smart and could come up with an equal...I wish I was smart and could come up with an equally meltingly beautiful word....but I can't!! Love the dreamy photos..Kayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16584116146098939783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767484157936178574.post-11440785536469816102009-08-28T10:13:51.418-04:002009-08-28T10:13:51.418-04:00Do you collect words, like I do? I like to jot my ...Do you collect words, like I do? I like to jot my faves in a little book of words.Tess Kincaidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04889725786678984293noreply@blogger.com