Weekend Creativity Series – The Blank Page

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• Submitted by Vidda on July 4, 2016 at 9:48 am

  The pesky knot

  I guess you guys’ll have to update your Facebook status now.

  Mazal Tov! Did you break the glass?

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• Submitted by KAlden on July 4, 2016 at 10:07 am

  What happy news! Wishing you

  What happy news!
  Wishing you both many, many more decades of happiness, quiet pleasures, mutual respect and kindness and good conversations. And, continued love, of course!
  Thanks for sharing this great news with all of us.

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• Submitted by spinoza on July 4, 2016 at 3:15 pm

  Civil Union v. Rebels

  The young blank page pulled in polar directions. Chartered but still untested as a realm, its autonomy set by vision and blood, territories conceived and expanded, aspirations ventilated. States rights the stated cause of the rebellion. States of being. States of mind.

  One gray faction dutiful and status driven, the other dyed indigo dilettantes, professional amateurs, inveterate beginners, peripatetics, lovers of pet projects. The former resented the latter mightily, indigested at the idea that one might taste too freely fruits of the banquet. The split was less geographical, more ontological. Officialdom held the legions of indentured, yet assumed the moral high ground. Those pushed to the margins, who tilted towards the eclectic, had scattered redoubts as well as bouts of languor to overcome.

  Looking back, battle was inevitable. Left to themselves the navel gazers get along pretty well, but that’s not how the world works, pal. Before lines are drawn, commanding forces, infantry, recruits, roadies, and phalanxes of fact checkers are unleashed. Allotments disbursed and strategy sessions sat through. Reasons reasoned thoroughly. The underdogs are more fond of and familiar with making things up on the fly. Even if a fair amount of it turns out to be harebrained. They eschew strategy for tactics, travel lighter.

  One can never say why but Fortune sometimes smiles at drawn-out skirmishes between states. After much attrition, and high casualty counts, a workable peace became envision-able. Enviable by both sides. Let’s see if we can make it last they said over the table to each other. Augment each other’s strengths, as it were. It was a goal they both deemed worthy and got behind.

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  • Submitted by spinoza on July 5, 2016 at 6:19 am

    A Dixon-Mason line

    Recently I got to spend time with my six-year-old nephew. He liked to go upside down, not exactly standing on his head but twisted so that his head was on the ground and everything was above that. I said to him that if you turn things upside-down when you’re upside-down they seem rightside-up. He looked at me puzzled. I urged him to try it and proceeded to demonstrate. He went “south”, and I started turning household stuff the other way. My coffee mug, his batting machine, his little sister. He looked a bit confused, also amazed. I could tell he was chewing on this, keeping a giggle inside.

    I like to do this, mess with scale, timelines, POVs. We take so much for granted, it just seems like a good way to clean the cache, even if a bit goofy.

    I saw the blank page invite for Chris and Lises’ wedding announcement, and this deconstruction of reconstruction struck me. Fourth of July, Revolutionary War, Bull Run, The Gold Rush… it’s hard to keep things straight. Would you rather I had given them a gravy boat?

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• Submitted by darqmatr on July 4, 2016 at 6:28 pm

  Congrats Chris and Lise. Wish

  Congrats Chris and Lise. Wish you the very best !!

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• Submitted by cgrotke on July 5, 2016 at 5:12 pm

  Thanks!

  Thanks all. We had a great time showing off southern Vermont/NH to relatives and friends, and the weather couldn’t have been much better.

  For the curious, we mixed up a family reunion with a wedding with a picnic and a party. Guests were invited to the top of Black Mtn for a short Shinto-esque ceremony, and we vowed not only to each other, but also to friends, family, and community to do our best to help all prosper and be well.

  For the main event, Sharon Myers helped us with catering at the Riverside Hotel near exit 3, Jerry Smith was the go-to guy for flowers, and it all ended with a hanging out party back at our place for those with any energy left.

  Why now? So all of you assuming we were already married could be correct! : )

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