The Editor
I’m Sarah Daniels, in case you missed that on the top of my posts. I’ve lived in the Los Angeles area for 11 years and (much to the dismay of my friends and family back East), I still love it. If my San Fernando Valley ranch house in 2008 were a Parisian literary salon in 1908, I’d be Gertrude Stein…only prettier. (Even outside of Southern California we Angelenos don’t lose our vanity.)
Although I have a master’s degree (magna cum laude, thank you very much) and a C-suite resume, those accomplishments are pretty pointless in this particular medium. I don’t think there is a class to develop your skills in pithy, sardonic commentary.
Business acumen and experience play into my blog on some level, but on the whole, my writing is based on my unusual ability to see how just about anything could be better.
Larry said
Hey Sarah–
Nice meeting you at Hugos the other nite with your Yoga girls. I found your statement about 1 in a million to be the kind of stuff I would say and piss people off. People don’t like to be so imaginative, but it’s pretty normal for me. When I was a kid I was told by a doctor that I was an inquisitive boy. It’s like your idealism, that just about anything “could be better”. Idealism is a religious posture; I’ve concluded that I am an Idealist before anything else– and then certain religious imagery or figures fit my Ideal, not the other way around. But I find that when I articulate what I feel with words, it’s just not quite right. I prefer metaphor or sound or touch or silence and just taking it all in. But really, I love to hear another person engage their wonder past childhood! In a similar vein to what you are doing here, I always wanted to lend myself out to any research as everything has a story, has connections, and is ultimately not so mundane. I always want the real, and that is the story within the story– the existential core of life. I love to go there, and see if I can find the bottom. This morning I awoke with a keen sense that I have had very little personal mass compared to my father who was one huge Ego and so his mass just overwhelming. I have realized therefore that his True was overwhelming mine so much so that today I have to make much effort to be True. And so I must orbit around a True mass that will not leave me without myself. I don’t think I can yet free-float, but do think that if I orbit around my True, and my spiritual muse/imago, then I will not be betrayed. That is my mission now– and that requires listening and being faithful and center. TMI? Where is your SFV oasis? Thanks for the secret code– that is, your website. It looks nourishing–awesome for you. I’ll think of something I might submit to you. I don’t know many particulars, but I am familiar with Depth– that is my comfort and desire. I near repel the particulars– don’t know why– I guess maybe because those who champion them can be the most shallow people… or laziness? Well, without judgment, my right brain/emotion/sensual is my home and eternal– left brain is a necessary accompaniment, but pretty boring to me. That is all. Nice surprise to hear a comment from you last night– rare to find one wondering. Larry