Comments on: Thomas Sullivan: YOUNG STUDS AND OLD TRUTHS

By: Sully

Sully — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:23:00 +0000

Ah, yeah. Gotta remember that, I’m the teacher. Um…could you loan me a dictionary, though, just to refresh my memory of course? Thanks, Teighlor. U iz always a day-maker!

– Sully (Thomas Sullivan)

By: Teighlor Darr

Teighlor Darr — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 02:12:00 +0000

Dear Sully,

I'm late! Shit. Thankfully, the insights contained within your latest missive effortlessly subvert the space/time continuum, and take their permanent place within my expectant heart and parturient mind (well, here's hoping!). Why break tradition, eh?

I'm almost unspeakably grateful to all my teachers, unaware as some of them might be of their tutelage!

Thank you so much for reminding me, as you always do, to step back from the Grand Mosaic, endeavoring to learn its most tender lessons from the outside-in.

My young ego thanks you, too. She's a self-engrossed little twerp sometimes!

Always With Love, Friend,

Teighlor

By: Sully

Sully — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:18:00 +0000

Thanks, Mark. I think the critical turns in my life were often triggered by single events as I’ve described, but I have no doubt that they acted more like the straw that broke the camel’s back. The things that surprise us sort of sneak up that way, don’t they, awakening inactive parts of our subconscious.

– Sully (Thomas Sullivan)

By: Mark Rainey

Mark Rainey — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:08:00 +0000

It’s interesting how certain individuals, in certain circumstances, have shaped your thinking, your perceptions, even when they seem trivial on the surface. I can think of a few times when similar things might have happened in my life, but I don’t know that they ever taught me -clarity-; not the way you present it, anyway.

Rich is quite right; you’re writing from the heart, which is a real power.

By: Sully

Sully — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 02:11:00 +0000

Thank God for a lifetime of failure to help me deal with such overgenerous praise. Thank you, Janet…

– Sully (Thomas Sullivan)

By: Janet Berliner

Janet Berliner — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 23:59:00 +0000

Food for thought. Gourmet food. No one should be allowed to write that well. Janet

By: David Niall Wilson

David Niall Wilson — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:44:00 +0000

Heh… “Heart Words” The new Ophra selection-of-the-month..

By: Sully

Sully — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:11:00 +0000

“Heart-words.” Heartening words for me, Rick. Your perspective is so often defining that I’m always reassured to get a thumbs up from your direction. Take care. Your fellow believer,

Sully

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:25:00 +0000

Well, Again, I begin my day – as with Dave – a little more ennobled for your words than I would have been without them.

Not that I agree completely with them, or that the reading healed my ills; but rather that seeing words strung from the heart instead of the brain makes a difference in our world. In my world.

There is wonder in words spun out from a heart or soul. A wonder too often missing in our jinglistic world. There is strength there as well. A strength born from having both the fortitude and the technical skill to allow the talent its heads.

Thanks, amigo; if for nothing else for once again showing the world the power of heart-words.

Rick

By: Sully

Sully — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:06:00 +0000

Davey, yeah, “spur of the moment,” ain’t that the truth? Those instant decisions will kill you or save you.

And thanks, Flamingo Frank. Don’t know that I’ll abandon “Cannibal Essays” altogether, just the urban recipe. Like most of us, along about deadline time I start sweating for my muse to talk to me.

– Sully (Thomas Sullivan)