Wednesday, June 03, 2009

A Clean Sheet


I AM (TRYING TO) turn over a new leaf.

In doing so I am reminded of a haiku I once read in a creative writing manual:

This blank page
glares at me:
white with rage.

Know what I mean..?
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12 comments:

  1. Rita A3 June 2009 at 14:03

    Thank you so much for the links you gave me to the tiger post and the squirrel post. Enjoyed both of them enormously! I had never seen a white tiger before, nor a baby squirrel :)

    As for blank pages. I think they stare at me invitingly... Alluringly even.

    I think you write really well. REALLY well. No writer's block there, eh?

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  2. Syd3 June 2009 at 17:08

    It's a page that is meant to be written on. Just like a new chapter of life.

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  3. Lone Grey Squirrel3 June 2009 at 17:09

    Most important is that a blank page has not been written yet. Write on it what you really want it to read.

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  4. Akelamalu3 June 2009 at 19:41

    A clean sheet just waiting for you!

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  5. Gledwood3 June 2009 at 20:20

    aye!

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  6. Reeny's Ramblin'3 June 2009 at 20:20

    I agree with all the people above me. Clean slates and the best slates....

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  7. Gledwood3 June 2009 at 20:27

    yes: I am lucky in a way that my slate IS relatively clean. That's a real luxury and a privilege. I'm sure there are millions of people who with fervently they could undo stupid things they've done that now count against them... sometimes being "boring" is a plus-point then...

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  8. Jeannie3 June 2009 at 21:38

    I do - and I'm glaring back.

    Trying to eat more good and far less bad and do it without alcohol while life is piling up and becoming unmanageable and I think menopause is fucking with my head.

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  9. Baino4 June 2009 at 00:30

    Go for it Gleds.

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  10. Gledwood4 June 2009 at 15:21

    Jeannie: hormones! You either need more or less of 'em...

    Baino: cheers

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  11. Tatyanna (and Dorian too)4 June 2009 at 16:12

    ah yes, i know just what the haiku means....sigh. but it's true, the blank page is mainly a good thing, yeah?

    i'm working on turning over that new leaf too. i started with quitting smoking rather than anything else :)

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  12. Gledwood8 June 2009 at 13:06

    blank pages can be inspiring or depressing... in what proportion says a lot about You.

    i LOVE a good blank page to dirty up with my own Permanent Black jottings....

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