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Jul. 6th, 2008 07:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mistymasseyI'm always so depressed after I have to leave a visit with my family. My sister and I are incredibly close, so being this far away from her is hard. I've promised the Beetle we won't move south until he finishes high school, but it's going to be a long three years.
It's not just that I miss my family. I've never really loved the upstate. The air is too still. When I lived in the Lowcountry, there was always a breeze off the ocean, one you could feel no matter where you were in town. Then there's that lack of ocean access. And no, lakes just don't cut it. I want wild water, water that seems to know what it's doing. Not water that lays around bored all day.
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I was terribly sorry to hear that Thomas Disch was gone. Apparently he'd been suffering from depression for a while prior to his death. I've noticed posts from people saying they wished they'd realized how he was feeling in time. I feel for them as well as for him. Peaceful rest, Mr. Disch.
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At last, there's a happy ending to a sad story. Attendees of this year's Clarion West workshop were staying in a campus sorority house, and some jerk broke in and stole four laptops and a bunch of personal items. Not only did people lose computers they could ill afford to replace, they also lost writing they'd been working on for weeks. Word went out throughout the writing community, and within a day or so, enough financial help had been offered that the laptops were replaced.
It's not just that I miss my family. I've never really loved the upstate. The air is too still. When I lived in the Lowcountry, there was always a breeze off the ocean, one you could feel no matter where you were in town. Then there's that lack of ocean access. And no, lakes just don't cut it. I want wild water, water that seems to know what it's doing. Not water that lays around bored all day.
*****
I was terribly sorry to hear that Thomas Disch was gone. Apparently he'd been suffering from depression for a while prior to his death. I've noticed posts from people saying they wished they'd realized how he was feeling in time. I feel for them as well as for him. Peaceful rest, Mr. Disch.
*****
At last, there's a happy ending to a sad story. Attendees of this year's Clarion West workshop were staying in a campus sorority house, and some jerk broke in and stole four laptops and a bunch of personal items. Not only did people lose computers they could ill afford to replace, they also lost writing they'd been working on for weeks. Word went out throughout the writing community, and within a day or so, enough financial help had been offered that the laptops were replaced.
