Comments on: Thomas Sullivan: MAKING LOVE or BETWEEN THE COVERS (of a book) http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2009/04/15/thomas-sullivan-making-love-or-between-the-covers-of-a-book/ Just another Storytellers Unplugged weblog Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:18:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Thomas Sullivan http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2009/04/15/thomas-sullivan-making-love-or-between-the-covers-of-a-book/comment-page-1/#comment-573 Thomas Sullivan Thu, 07 May 2009 23:36:04 +0000 http://www.storytellersunplugged.com/?p=2608#comment-573 Yeah...(spoke quietly) yeah, it's in the genes, isn't it? There is no choice for those who will not compromise their ideals and their love of perfection. Playing (living) in that arena is at a minimum its own reward. To deal with ideals every day, to be a real player at the only level that matters -- that's what it's all about. Anything else is like sitting on the bench. What a colossal affront to God and creation that is... Thanks, Jackie. -- Sully Yeah…(spoke quietly) yeah, it’s in the genes, isn’t it? There is no choice for those who will not compromise their ideals and their love of perfection. Playing (living) in that arena is at a minimum its own reward. To deal with ideals every day, to be a real player at the only level that matters — that’s what it’s all about. Anything else is like sitting on the bench. What a colossal affront to God and creation that is…

Thanks, Jackie.

– Sully

]]> By: Jackie Pontious http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2009/04/15/thomas-sullivan-making-love-or-between-the-covers-of-a-book/comment-page-1/#comment-574 Jackie Pontious Thu, 07 May 2009 23:27:44 +0000 http://www.storytellersunplugged.com/?p=2608#comment-574 Food for thought, great one. Whether tis nobler to stake out a new path or to continue on the dusty but comfortable trail. For some, there is no choice but to do the most compelling. Fall or stand, it is accomplishment most satisfying. Jackie Food for thought, great one. Whether tis nobler to stake out a new path or to continue on the dusty but comfortable trail. For some, there is no choice but to do the most compelling. Fall or stand, it is accomplishment most satisfying.

Jackie

]]> By: Thomas Sullivan http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2009/04/15/thomas-sullivan-making-love-or-between-the-covers-of-a-book/comment-page-1/#comment-570 Thomas Sullivan Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:22:15 +0000 http://www.storytellersunplugged.com/?p=2608#comment-570 Man, I am searching my head for a hidden microphone. You always seem to catch my thoughts at the subconscious level. Thank you, Amalgam. As for the risks,I dunno, they don't seem risky when I'm doing them. I've faulted mountaineers for the same thing, I guess, but I really don't try anything until I'm sure I've scoped everything out and have control over the dangers. And I'm healing way ahead of schedule... Sully Man, I am searching my head for a hidden microphone. You always seem to catch my thoughts at the subconscious level. Thank you, Amalgam.

As for the risks,I dunno, they don’t seem risky when I’m doing them. I’ve faulted mountaineers for the same thing, I guess, but I really don’t try anything until I’m sure I’ve scoped everything out and have control over the dangers. And I’m healing way ahead of schedule…

Sully

]]> By: Robert Jones http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2009/04/15/thomas-sullivan-making-love-or-between-the-covers-of-a-book/comment-page-1/#comment-569 Robert Jones Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:44:16 +0000 http://www.storytellersunplugged.com/?p=2608#comment-569 You've probably never thought of it, but Chuck Yeager and you, Sully, share a common trait. You are both envelope pushers, General Jeager with his high-risk military and test-pilot flight experiences and you with your skating on ice being daily thinned by oncoming spring and with your snowshoeing, canoeing and stream fording before your physical damage has adequately healed. “To live, not to exist” indeed. One would expect your thoughts and writing to reflect these actions; and, of course, they do. They match the philosophy of life that you not only describe but enthusiastically prescribe: to LIVE rather than merely survive and never to be so satisfied with the goals you have attained that you would ever find them a comfortable rocking chair from which to observe the rest of your life as you allow it to slip passively by. In regard to stretching one's pen into the territory of a different genre, as you wrote, “that's what pseudonyms are for.” Don't settle back and rock. As Flamingo Frank used to say, "GO FOR IT." Yet another great educational and motivational piece, mon ami. Amalgam You’ve probably never thought of it, but Chuck Yeager and you, Sully, share a common trait. You are both envelope pushers, General Jeager with his high-risk military and test-pilot flight experiences and you with your skating on ice being daily thinned by oncoming spring and with your snowshoeing, canoeing and stream fording before your physical damage has adequately healed. “To live, not to exist” indeed.

One would expect your thoughts and writing to reflect these actions; and, of course, they do. They match the philosophy of life that you not only describe but enthusiastically prescribe: to LIVE rather than merely survive and never to be so satisfied with the goals you have attained that you would ever find them a comfortable rocking chair from which to observe the rest of your life as you allow it to slip passively by.

In regard to stretching one’s pen into the territory of a different genre, as you wrote, “that’s what pseudonyms are for.” Don’t settle back and rock. As Flamingo Frank used to say, “GO FOR IT.”

Yet another great educational and motivational piece, mon ami.

Amalgam

]]> By: Thomas Sullivan http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2009/04/15/thomas-sullivan-making-love-or-between-the-covers-of-a-book/comment-page-1/#comment-572 Thomas Sullivan Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:16:12 +0000 http://www.storytellersunplugged.com/?p=2608#comment-572 Well, Shakespeare would've said it if he had thought of it first, but I'm glad I could trump him... Bless you. Sully Well, Shakespeare would’ve said it if he had thought of it first, but I’m glad I could trump him…

Bless you.

Sully

]]> By: Janet Berliner http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2009/04/15/thomas-sullivan-making-love-or-between-the-covers-of-a-book/comment-page-1/#comment-568 Janet Berliner Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:50:17 +0000 http://www.storytellersunplugged.com/?p=2608#comment-568 “This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man…” As always, you speak to my heart. --J. “This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man…”

As always, you speak to my heart. –J.

]]> By: Thomas Sullivan http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2009/04/15/thomas-sullivan-making-love-or-between-the-covers-of-a-book/comment-page-1/#comment-571 Thomas Sullivan Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:33:23 +0000 http://www.storytellersunplugged.com/?p=2608#comment-571 Attracting trouble is the best genre of all -- especially in gender dynamics! But in your case it would have a literary patina. Go for it! Ed can lick stamps and count the money... And thanks a long ton for the sentiments, Jeani. -- Sully Attracting trouble is the best genre of all — especially in gender dynamics! But in your case it would have a literary patina. Go for it! Ed can lick stamps and count the money…

And thanks a long ton for the sentiments, Jeani.

– Sully

]]> By: Jeani http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2009/04/15/thomas-sullivan-making-love-or-between-the-covers-of-a-book/comment-page-1/#comment-567 Jeani Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:26:18 +0000 http://www.storytellersunplugged.com/?p=2608#comment-567 Hi Sully "Living your own history is a good way to miss the present and render the future stillborn." The way you can stir together a few (17, in this case) words and come up with such gold is nothing short of alchemy. As always, you've got me wondering about fiction. This time, from a different angle: If I were a fiction writer, what would be my genre? Hmmm ... Any hints? I'm not sure I recognize any particular skill set. (My other skill set seemed to attract a lot of trouble in my younger years -- glad it also managed to pull in ED!) Wishing you joys of the new season, Jeani Hi Sully

“Living your own history is a good way to miss the present and render the future stillborn.” The way you can stir together a few (17, in this case) words and come up with such gold is nothing short of alchemy.

As always, you’ve got me wondering about fiction. This time, from a different angle: If I were a fiction writer, what would be my genre? Hmmm … Any hints? I’m not sure I recognize any particular skill set. (My other skill set seemed to attract a lot of trouble in my younger years — glad it also managed to pull in ED!)

Wishing you joys of the new season,
Jeani

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