Sorry you're going through a rough patch right now - have you considered fictionalizing your experiences as a way of distancing them from yourself? You write well, I don't see why you shouldn't try to

You just tipped me more than you know. Thank you for the encouragement :)

Hmm, living on other planets and populating the cosmos...sounds familiar, yes, strangely familiar, my friend. Not what I expected as part of your theology :)

A continuation of your meditation on changes, @slowwalker. In this case, the city boundaries of Seoul change over time and so much so that the choice of a fortified location becomes irrelevant as the city

Thank you, my friend. I don't like to steal ideas so I appreciate your generous offer. Inspiration is half the process of writing the story - the percolating is the rest :)

It's a lifetime process, this business of refining our sensibilities

you're welcome. @slowwalker

Thanks

An interesting post, @slowwalker - seeing the past in terms of the present and then the past in terms of the eternal. The slope of the temple roof mirrors the mountains but the modern buildings point skyward

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Thank you! I appreciate your feedback

GRRR!!! ha ha, even as a kid, I hated short pants and had two obnoxious childhood friends who at different times actually wore those damnable leather shorts and looked totally ridiculous and decidedly

I agree...but it's really a case of false impressions at first on his part - well that, and as H. L Menken once wrote, 'to be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an

You're welcome, my friend :)

BTW, I misspelled 'leather' but can't delete this post, so I corrected the original and 'edited' this one. In case you were wondering - See below

Ah, that's the point - some readers think it's me - they presume I'm my narrators, but really, this thwarted, secretive lover is Everyman

Oooh, I wish you hadn't asked that - Now, I want to write that -my gut tells me it would work better as a story although some of the material could be cast as a meditative poem along the lines of

Paradise in lederhosen? This poet don't think so, lol. Even as Fantasy Island this would be a nightmare for me (minus revisiting and spending time with my father). It just goes to show that one man's heaven

It's interesting that all you were able to see was the calligraphy, and it was simple as a child's writing. I have practiced the art of writing all my life and I can honestly say that when it is real it