Thank you as always. I also reread the “prequel” (important and lovely all over again), am seized by the urge to throw out much of my correspondence (even thank-you cards from students?) but save my diaries, and have to say I am really glad you wrote that letter to your dad, white lies and all, and that he responded as he did. I understand completely why you are of two minds about both, and perhaps I am too much at a distance, but what comes across from your post seems so positive all around.
Thank you so much (as always) Antje! You are such a thoughtful and generous reader. It's so funny -- I just wrote a journal entry (!) in which I was thinking about what it means to comment on someone else's writing, and how I don't think I'm very good at it myself (so often I love something I've read but don't have much to say), and how some people are really good at it, and you're one of them. (And please save that correspondence!!! Ohmygosh!!!)
Thank you as always. I also reread the “prequel” (important and lovely all over again), am seized by the urge to throw out much of my correspondence (even thank-you cards from students?) but save my diaries, and have to say I am really glad you wrote that letter to your dad, white lies and all, and that he responded as he did. I understand completely why you are of two minds about both, and perhaps I am too much at a distance, but what comes across from your post seems so positive all around.
Thank you so much (as always) Antje! You are such a thoughtful and generous reader. It's so funny -- I just wrote a journal entry (!) in which I was thinking about what it means to comment on someone else's writing, and how I don't think I'm very good at it myself (so often I love something I've read but don't have much to say), and how some people are really good at it, and you're one of them. (And please save that correspondence!!! Ohmygosh!!!)