tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885582611314646448.post2047938806888319412..comments2024-03-22T00:21:30.759-07:00Comments on Louise Penny: A very fine houseLouise Penny Authorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10316557270587688970noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885582611314646448.post-64183283389691155802009-05-07T09:11:00.000-07:002009-05-07T09:11:00.000-07:00Dear Jo B,
Oh, I can almost smell your place (bel...Dear Jo B,<br /><br />Oh, I can almost smell your place (believe it or not, that's a compliment)... years of log fires and sweet woods and coffee. Your country home sounds divine.Louise Penny Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10316557270587688970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885582611314646448.post-86550352699594242872009-05-02T19:51:00.000-07:002009-05-02T19:51:00.000-07:00Those childhood memories stay with you, don't they...Those childhood memories stay with you, don't they? My brother and sisters have kept the family property in the mountains of North Georgia. We have a lake and turned the old barn into a large room for family reunions...have to make memories for all the grandkids! It isn't fancy, just very rustic, but we love it.Jo B.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885582611314646448.post-87674859435194672982009-05-02T10:41:00.000-07:002009-05-02T10:41:00.000-07:00Dear Elizabeth,
Yes, you've caught it exactly. P...Dear Elizabeth,<br /><br />Yes, you've caught it exactly. People who haven't had the experience have no idea how deep it goes...and how much a part of us yearns to crawl back there. <br /><br />I know though friends who went to camp and had similar experiences I can't begin to understand. And Michael has wonderful memories of summer's by the ocean in Maine. That's what he yearns for. Colours and smells and sounds that mean nothing to me. <br /><br />We're hoping to go this year.Louise Penny Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10316557270587688970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885582611314646448.post-90242491960830566462009-05-02T10:38:00.000-07:002009-05-02T10:38:00.000-07:00Dear Lil,
What a lovely thing to say. We do it f...Dear Lil,<br /><br />What a lovely thing to say. We do it for each other, all of us, don't we. Tell each other it's ok to be who we are. What a relief.Louise Penny Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10316557270587688970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885582611314646448.post-8292559239779286582009-04-29T15:19:00.000-07:002009-04-29T15:19:00.000-07:00Thanks for sharing your childhood life at the lake...Thanks for sharing your childhood life at the lake. I, too, had a sort of magical time at a summer cottage. My husband did not, nor have my own children experienced anything like it, having grown up in Washington,DC, and when I start to talk about "the cottage" they roll their eyes and all but say, "Here she goes again." My cottage memories were fortunately validated when an English cousin, who had been evacuated to Canada to spend the war years with my grandparents, wrote about her time in at the same cottage and the physical freedom she had here. She is a former writer for the Guardian and a biographer of some note, so I felt much better about my own nostalgia. Sadly, the actual place has been swallowed by suburban Gatineau, north of Ottawa, so it lives on only in memory (and photos).Elizabethnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885582611314646448.post-9785336207548123452009-04-29T14:26:00.000-07:002009-04-29T14:26:00.000-07:00What a moving post. I have places like that, where...What a moving post. I have places like that, where we loved and laughed as children-and learned too many things that we had trouble handling. I am beginning to think that I do need you to manage and ground my own day. Is that a scary thought? You have a gift, indeed, for sharing and validating your readers' lives.lil Glucksternhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09288522126331817172noreply@blogger.com