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Sorry: when I hit Reply, I find this went only to Kate; I'm not sure WHAT 
site to mail this to properly!
Helena
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Kate, VERY belatedly --gosh, that's becoming my middle name, the VB 
part--it's nice to see you again and hey, congrats on the poem!!!
I hope too that we have May Sarton on our list!   She's in my 
bathroom-library with Journey of a Solitude--oh, I LIKE her so much.  But I still don't 
really cozy up to poetry, except occasionally , find that Mary Oliver speaks to me 
every time I come across something of hers and really wish I'd pursue some 
intelligent study.  Perhaps sporadic appreciation is sufficient <g>..
I seem to be off reading anything "intelligent" for a while, am actively 
resenting "good books" because they take over my life and I can't get anything 
else DONE! The scholar in me is on vacation, I guess but it's getting remarkably 
close to a sabbatical's length of time ;-(  Fortunately our local library does 
this cool thing of stacking a shelf system at our only store with a variety 
of paperbacks which are just perfect for bathroom or 
help-I-gotta-escape-for-a-while reading.
I wonder how the AUTHORS of those books would feel knowing their creations 
are considered <g>..  I listened to a Bill Moyer's Faith and Reason broadcast 
today with Janet somebody who said yes, she has to continue writing even though 
she questions whether anybody's READING and/or THINKING..
Hmm.

Love,
Helena
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In a message dated 6/20/2006 12:54:00 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
katenexile at yahoo.com writes:
Greetings!  I feel as though I have come back home.  I was a member of this 
list
for quite a while--but due to my travel nursing jobs and a computer crash or 
two--I
lost you!!  I like to have never recalled the name of the group!

I remember you as intelligent but friendly and encouraging!!  And hey--guess 
what!
I had a poem published!  Cool!  Must have taken so many years--and then wham!

After that, I quit writing.  Strange.  Took up soapmaking---did that for 2 
years--now
I am so totally into jewelry design.

But I am returning to books--poetry especially--and ack!!  I have no book 
lists with me--that is when I started looking for you.  Good to be back.

BTW--I read Housekeeping years ago--what a fabulous book--the author 
descriptions 
are more poetry than prose.  Even though sad, it was a book  of incredible 
merit.

So glad to see  good friends again!!

Kate Thorn (the travel nurse!)

ps--please tell me y'all have on your wonderful lists The poetry of May 
Sarton!

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