Comments on: Nobody Too http://www.oleoptene.com/2008/10/23/nobody-too/ A blog for Mara Collins Sun, 20 Nov 2011 04:12:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: lara http://www.oleoptene.com/2008/10/23/nobody-too/comment-page-1/#comment-3252 lara Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:47:01 +0000 http://www.oleoptene.com/?p=242#comment-3252 The passage about being "neither independent nor aloof, nor hopelessly helplessly dependent, but interdependent" brought tears to my eyes as it resonates so much with my own daily struggle to find the right balance in my family life at the moment. Thank you for your writing Mara! The passage about being “neither independent nor aloof, nor hopelessly helplessly dependent, but interdependent” brought tears to my eyes as it resonates so much with my own daily struggle to find the right balance in my family life at the moment.
Thank you for your writing Mara!

]]> By: jenny http://www.oleoptene.com/2008/10/23/nobody-too/comment-page-1/#comment-3250 jenny Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:31:42 +0000 http://www.oleoptene.com/?p=242#comment-3250 I wish I could be more thoughtful right now, but I love you and I miss you and I think that you are amazing. I'm so glad you went to the event and thank you Timothea for making it possible! I wish I could be more thoughtful right now, but I love you and I miss you and I think that you are amazing. I’m so glad you went to the event and thank you Timothea for making it possible!

]]> By: sarah gilbert http://www.oleoptene.com/2008/10/23/nobody-too/comment-page-1/#comment-3240 sarah gilbert Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:37:31 +0000 http://www.oleoptene.com/?p=242#comment-3240 I read this as I finish writing a definition of "peak oil" and have just thought a little smugly that we probably are only a few years away from a global economic meltdown and that I'm so well-suited for it! (I can bake bread and I even have Ubuntu!) I actually almost wrote something about how Peak Oilians were eager for it to happen, how if it did that would mean that local food economies would be forced on us, and that was what I wanted after all? I hope you find your Nana who will help protect you from the bears, real and imagined, but in the meantime a lovely prayer works just as well as a dog. and I believe your professor was being genuine and writing those effusive things only to you :) I read this as I finish writing a definition of “peak oil” and have just thought a little smugly that we probably are only a few years away from a global economic meltdown and that I’m so well-suited for it! (I can bake bread and I even have Ubuntu!) I actually almost wrote something about how Peak Oilians were eager for it to happen, how if it did that would mean that local food economies would be forced on us, and that was what I wanted after all?

I hope you find your Nana who will help protect you from the bears, real and imagined, but in the meantime a lovely prayer works just as well as a dog. and I believe your professor was being genuine and writing those effusive things only to you :)

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