tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2548010454583144284.post937079963983324016..comments2023-06-14T06:17:27.052-05:00Comments on Brand of Make Believe: Perfect DayAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15840330115866846549noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2548010454583144284.post-20957517483560668262009-11-10T16:47:52.100-06:002009-11-10T16:47:52.100-06:00Ah Harlequin,
I am so proud to write back and for...Ah Harlequin,<br /><br />I am so proud to write back and forth with you. My sister does not yet know I am writing you and looking at your blog, occasionally. It's wonderful to imagine learning something from you about autism, which contrary to what I might have implied, I more or less know nothing about. Also, I feel somewhat guilty due to the fact that I frequently admire some of the forces that drive some parents fighting autism crazy. I know in the end my love will be recognized for what it is, but still, many of these passionate disputes have nothing to do with what the conversation seems to be about, and a great deal to due with the sheer, ugly treatment of autistics by the scared person on the street. I guess this causes people to see a cure as the ONLY alternative... our hearts will never accept these people. Our world never acommodate them.<br />Perhaps the world and our hearts will fail these children and adults. But I at least am glad I have a fighter like you, Harlequin, to ask what might I do to understand your experience. For I really want to know.<br /><br />Outlaw country, and somewhat hilariously, Kris Kristofferson were obsessions of mine until I was twenty five or twenty six. I still mostly listen to that and Merle, ect. Country. But I have long ago come to realize Rock and Roll's essential place in the appreciative souls raised fist. As a teenager I was a total blank on all that goddamn noise.<br /><br />God I love to imagine visiting such a dramatic place as Newfoundland. In Bloomington, I'm afraid we wait for perfect days, and discuss endlessly the probable likelihood or unlikelihood of the the remainder: half the time a bit worried that the weather might be too GOOD.<br /><br />Luckily winter seems to quiet most of this commotion, and simply deliver a steady stream of the misery that people year after year have come to depend on as their only regular thing.<br /><br />Then we go to Arizona.<br /><br />Correct me if I'm wrong about those boots you have in your avatar square. I first noticed women wearing them no more than five years ago. The moment I saw them I remember thinking, "What a clever take on the ugly green variety." Do you suppose they really have only been popular for that long, Harlequin? Or have you some insight, some pop cultural event that gave them their opportunity to stand in for.... you?<br />Thanks.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15840330115866846549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2548010454583144284.post-17336366753669510562009-11-10T16:10:52.974-06:002009-11-10T16:10:52.974-06:00I enjoyed how you used two fine lyricists, Willie ...I enjoyed how you used two fine lyricists, Willie and Randy...<br />and I grew up in Newfoundland where if anyone waited for a perfect day to do anything, she would never do anything. I dwell deeply in my days, cool, perfect, calm and tossed... <br />thanks for this one. :)Harlequinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04964772119118368322noreply@blogger.com