Comments for Excuse Me, I'm Writing http://www.kbgressitt.com Tue, 15 May 2012 17:53:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on Happy Day for Special Mothers by Millie http://www.kbgressitt.com/2012/05/13/same-sex-marriage/happy-day-for-special-mothers/comment-page-1/#comment-10499 Millie Tue, 15 May 2012 17:53:32 +0000 http://www.kbgressitt.com/?p=10391#comment-10499 Looking forward to it along with you for all the same reasons. Equality is equality is equality. If I have it, everybody should have it. All the freedoms I celebrate as a straight white woman should be enjoyed by every person in this country. I remember studying somethings called liberty, justice and the pursuit of happiness. I laughed (sardonically) at the time because I didn't see any for a lot of us. Race, religion, sexual identity, age, income are all still reasons for oppressing Americans and that is NOT right. Looking forward to it along with you for all the same reasons. Equality is equality is equality. If I have it, everybody should have it. All the freedoms I celebrate as a straight white woman should be enjoyed by every person in this country. I remember studying somethings called liberty, justice and the pursuit of happiness. I laughed (sardonically) at the time because I didn’t see any for a lot of us. Race, religion, sexual identity, age, income are all still reasons for oppressing Americans and that is NOT right.

]]> Comment on Call for Submissions for My Body, My Health by Linda Lichtman http://www.kbgressitt.com/2012/03/08/poetry/call-for-submissions-for-my-body-my-health/comment-page-1/#comment-10112 Linda Lichtman Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:35:20 +0000 http://www.kbgressitt.com/?p=10044#comment-10112 Spectacular! I've been working on 2 essays - "The Sunshine in a Wounded Heart" about my experience as an abused child which led to a more lovng heart and "Dobn't Lose Your Marbles in LA" about the shabby mental health system in Los Angeles. You guys are forcing me to write. Thank you! Spectacular! I’ve been working on 2 essays – “The Sunshine in a Wounded Heart” about my experience as an abused child which led to a more lovng heart and “Dobn’t Lose Your Marbles in LA” about the shabby mental health system in Los Angeles. You guys are forcing me to write. Thank you!

]]> Comment on Call for Submissions for My Body, My Health by Beth http://www.kbgressitt.com/2012/03/08/poetry/call-for-submissions-for-my-body-my-health/comment-page-1/#comment-10102 Beth Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:53:22 +0000 http://www.kbgressitt.com/?p=10044#comment-10102 I'd like to write an essay about my mom's experience as a in the Detroit Feminist Women's Health Collective and as a midwife in the 70s, and then as an ob/gyn nurse at a hospital. It would be a personal essay, adding in my own experience. I can see this fitting into a few of your suggested categories, like "historical perspectives" and "activism" and "reproductive choice and health". Would you consider it? I’d like to write an essay about my mom’s experience as a in the Detroit Feminist Women’s Health Collective and as a midwife in the 70s, and then as an ob/gyn nurse at a hospital. It would be a personal essay, adding in my own experience. I can see this fitting into a few of your suggested categories, like “historical perspectives” and “activism” and “reproductive choice and health”. Would you consider it?

]]> Comment on The Colonel Father Sir by Gail Gang http://www.kbgressitt.com/2010/06/20/art/the-colonel-father-sir/comment-page-1/#comment-10094 Gail Gang Tue, 24 Apr 2012 02:35:10 +0000 http://www.kbgressitt.com/?p=5824#comment-10094 Lovely, Kit-Bacon. Thank you. I see that you haven't been eating bon-bons for 25 years since we worked on the city of Pasadena and had wine with Tony and Gordon. Hasn't it flown? Lovely, Kit-Bacon. Thank you. I see that you haven’t been eating bon-bons for 25 years since we worked on the city of Pasadena and had wine with Tony and Gordon. Hasn’t it flown?

]]> Comment on Speak Tenderly to the City by Mike Croghan http://www.kbgressitt.com/2012/04/19/culture/speak-tenderly-to-the-city-3/comment-page-1/#comment-10068 Mike Croghan Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:35:32 +0000 http://www.kbgressitt.com/?p=10307#comment-10068 I'll use a word I reserve for only the best writing I get to read. Writing that is elegant in the word, soulful in the tone. EXQUISITE! I’ll use a word I reserve for only the best writing I get to read. Writing that is elegant in the word, soulful in the tone. EXQUISITE!

]]> Comment on California Poet Laureate, from trailer to boardroom by Mike Croghan http://www.kbgressitt.com/2012/04/22/poetry/california-poet-laureate-from-trailer-to-boardroom/comment-page-1/#comment-10065 Mike Croghan Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:52:15 +0000 http://www.kbgressitt.com/?p=10310#comment-10065 WOW! Before opening your post, I'd just finished reading an email from a friend who lives in Fallbrook. Her email contained an announcement about the upcoming Mariachi event at Fallbrook library. Great timing! Oh, and thirdly, I was invited to participate in Fallbrook's A LEER festival a couple of weeks ago. I envy Fallbrook's celebrations of their vibrant Latino community! WOW! Before opening your post, I’d just finished reading an email from a friend who lives in Fallbrook. Her email contained an announcement about the upcoming Mariachi event at Fallbrook library. Great timing! Oh, and thirdly, I was invited to participate in Fallbrook’s A LEER festival a couple of weeks ago. I envy Fallbrook’s celebrations of their vibrant Latino community!

]]> Comment on Speak Tenderly to the City by Millie http://www.kbgressitt.com/2012/04/19/culture/speak-tenderly-to-the-city-3/comment-page-1/#comment-10048 Millie Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:46:05 +0000 http://www.kbgressitt.com/?p=10307#comment-10048 K-B, your words are beautiful, sensitive, moving. The human spirit is uplifted by your words almost as much as it was hurt by this homegrown act of terrorism. Like the Alamo, we need to remember. This was one of our own who did this, not a fundamentalist from a foreign land. We need to fear all the terrorism we hold in our hearts, all the fundamentalism we tend to cherish as WORD, as an order from on high. We need to look at our motives and our plans, and allow others the freedoms we want for ourselves. How do we protect ourselves from the hatred we hold in our hearts? K-B, your words are beautiful, sensitive, moving.

The human spirit is uplifted by your words almost as much as it was hurt by this homegrown act of terrorism. Like the Alamo, we need to remember. This was one of our own who did this, not a fundamentalist from a foreign land. We need to fear all the terrorism we hold in our hearts, all the fundamentalism we tend to cherish as WORD, as an order from on high. We need to look at our motives and our plans, and allow others the freedoms we want for ourselves.

How do we protect ourselves from the hatred we hold in our hearts?

]]> Comment on Call for Submissions for My Body, My Health by kbgressitt http://www.kbgressitt.com/2012/03/08/poetry/call-for-submissions-for-my-body-my-health/comment-page-1/#comment-10034 kbgressitt Thu, 19 Apr 2012 04:19:13 +0000 http://www.kbgressitt.com/?p=10044#comment-10034 Indeed we will, on both counts! Indeed we will, on both counts!

]]> Comment on Call for Submissions for My Body, My Health by Meg http://www.kbgressitt.com/2012/03/08/poetry/call-for-submissions-for-my-body-my-health/comment-page-1/#comment-10032 Meg Thu, 19 Apr 2012 02:44:19 +0000 http://www.kbgressitt.com/?p=10044#comment-10032 Hello, this sounds great. Will you consider submissions from outside the US? And (question two!) would you consider a short story in the genre of specular fiction? Hello, this sounds great. Will you consider submissions from outside the US? And (question two!) would you consider a short story in the genre of specular fiction?

]]> Comment on Tales from the Women’s Room by Carol http://www.kbgressitt.com/2012/04/15/abortion/tales-from-the-womens-room/comment-page-1/#comment-10025 Carol Tue, 17 Apr 2012 02:04:38 +0000 http://www.kbgressitt.com/?p=10285#comment-10025 I do hope she has/had enough sense to call you...it could be the best decision of her life. L, C I do hope she has/had enough sense to call you…it could be the best decision of her life.
L, C

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