Preservation
It’s so hard to be disciplined about getting things done when all you want to do is bag up old bones and bury them and your whole being is stretching towards something new and green.
It’s so hard to be disciplined about getting things done when all you want to do is bag up old bones and bury them and your whole being is stretching towards something new and green.
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March 31st, 2007 at 8:18 pm
oooh.
creepy. gave me a chill.
very good.
April 1st, 2007 at 9:51 am
I wanted this to be in the comment section of the “Magnet of your charms” post, 2 posts ago, but I did not get around to doing it then. The delay turned out to be a good thing as your article on Bauji, was published in the Friday 30 March edition of the “Today” paper. It included a small version of my picture of him in the photo-studio (the first time a picture I have taken has appeared in a national newspaper in Singapore!) as well as a larger picture of him at his 80th birthday,taken at home in Pheng Geck Ave. I enclose the link to the web edition of the TODAY newspaper below.
I wanted to say that under the influence of the powerful magnet of your writings and your pictures, you have indeed
charmed family and friends. Thank you for doing this.
With Love
http://www.todayonline.com/pdf_main.asp?pubdate=20070330
Under the section called “Voices”. page 40
April 1st, 2007 at 11:38 am
Liz, why creepy? I mean, I like being creepy. I just want to know why. :-)
Dad, you are a sweetheart and I am very glad that getting the piece published made you so happy. I am sorry I forgot momentarily that the photo-studio picture was in there when we talked on the phone just now; I just had it in my head from before I saw it that the last line was confusing without the picture and I hadn’t taken that bit of data out of my mind before we chatted. You should be proud of your debut photographic publication. :-) And I hope you know that I love you very much for even having the idea of submitting it in the first place, even though it was a very personal rumination and I never intended for it to represent his life or be a topic of conversation among offended relatives. ;-)
Kisses!
P.S. I loved your colleague’s interpretation.