tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35697944.post6280383892253947977..comments2023-11-05T17:34:53.515+08:00Comments on Realm of the Lone Grey Squirrel: No PicturesLone Grey Squirrelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16892067644551128013noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35697944.post-42344163750277894702007-05-28T14:35:00.000+08:002007-05-28T14:35:00.000+08:00a beautiful memory vividly intact that you have an...a beautiful memory vividly intact that you have and have shared in a fine fashion...thank youStayAtHomeKathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03928360317084517038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35697944.post-74247814147761998082007-05-28T12:29:00.000+08:002007-05-28T12:29:00.000+08:00Oh LGS, this was a wonderful bittersweet post! I c...Oh LGS, this was a wonderful bittersweet post! I could see your lost paradise, & also see the new version. How sad it has had to end that way. The same thing has happened to the lands by the sea from my childhood too, & I mourn the passing. And think of what the chidlren of today miss.meggiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00061112627819270427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35697944.post-84534868376052435612007-05-27T13:14:00.000+08:002007-05-27T13:14:00.000+08:00evalinn,I'm glad. That was what I had hoped for.ge...evalinn,<BR/>I'm glad. That was what I had hoped for.<BR/><BR/>geewits,<BR/>I do feel a great sense of loss. The first time I went back and saw the damage, I just sat down for half an hour is silence, grieving.Lone Grey Squirrelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16892067644551128013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35697944.post-55725327975880590882007-05-26T16:16:00.000+08:002007-05-26T16:16:00.000+08:00That is so sad. My favorite beach that I have such...That is so sad. My favorite beach that I have such fond memories of (in North Carolina) is not polluted or anything, but has totally lost it's flavor from the 70's. It's hard to even figure out where things were. That must have broken your heart to see the environmental damage. At least the old beach will always live in your heart and memory.geewitshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11590044820333720010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35697944.post-2941198950311360722007-05-26T14:07:00.000+08:002007-05-26T14:07:00.000+08:00I can just picture it from your post!I can just picture it from your post!Evalinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02978531437469203748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35697944.post-9052687488697956292007-05-26T12:15:00.000+08:002007-05-26T12:15:00.000+08:00janice,In the words of the song, "you don't know w...janice,<BR/>In the words of the song, "you don't know what you got till its gone." <BR/><BR/>daysgoby,<BR/>Sorry for being selfish here but I consider making you cry a great compliment to my writing skills. Okay, count to 20. *ego deflates*<BR/><BR/>Alright, sorry I made you cry.<BR/><BR/>proxima,<BR/>I can't match your newly created worlds kind-of - photos.<BR/><BR/>mago,<BR/>Concrete and asphalt is VERY tough! :)<BR/><BR/>becky,<BR/>Thanks. I was trying to see if I could describe the place in words.<BR/><BR/>Ivan,<BR/>You are so right. We try to ignore the problems or close and eye and hopes it goes away. Unfortunately, meetings and half-baked solutions get us nowhere except nature is really going away.<BR/><BR/>Tom,<BR/>Thanks for the encouragement. Actually, I've been trying to write stories for a while but can hardly get past how I want to start. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll mull it over.<BR/><BR/>josie,<BR/>It was great, although I get excited when you describe your childhood haunts too. They sound just as wonderful. I do wish I had photos from that time and that place. When I tell kids today that the water was clear enough that they could see the bottom, they just don't believe me. That is sad.Lone Grey Squirrelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16892067644551128013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35697944.post-17949824645774033812007-05-26T11:59:00.000+08:002007-05-26T11:59:00.000+08:00LGS, when you first started talking about your hol...LGS, when you first started talking about your holiday location, I wanted to go there. Right now. But to hear what it has turned into made me sad. Because it seems to be a global problem, doesn it? <EM>"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot."</EM> It's criminal.<BR/><BR/>It still lives in your memories, though, doesn't it? And you shared it with us.<BR/><BR/>Cheers,<BR/>JosieJohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06979114933441527890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35697944.post-79514105133379414372007-05-26T10:09:00.000+08:002007-05-26T10:09:00.000+08:00LGS,This is beautifully told. You used a phrase I'...LGS,<BR/>This is beautifully told. You used a phrase I've never heard before and I wanted to point it out for when you right a short story in this setting. "laze under the shade of coconut palms" I have never seen laze used as a verb, but it conveys its meaning perfectly. This is a setting waiting for a story and something tells me you have them. Then the ending that shows how it is all gone would be like one of those great "kid-plot" movies like "The Summer of '42" or "Brighten Beach Memoirs." I want to read the story book that begins with this post..Tom Kapankahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17431717152727352230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35697944.post-26232266185766979532007-05-26T05:30:00.000+08:002007-05-26T05:30:00.000+08:00Sad story, LGS.Especially when it comes to the ric...Sad story, LGS.<BR/><BR/>Especially when it comes to the richness of your childhood memories, when the water was fecund with life.<BR/>Same thing with out Great Lakes in Canada. We have stopped befouling them but we were so late.<BR/>This is the year of the environmentalist...Yet he never looks into his own back yard.<BR/>Always some nebulous thing like the Kyoto Accord.<BR/>While the politicians keep building garbage incinerators and the dumps belong to orgazinzed crime. "Tony fix" and hardly anybody cares how."<BR/>Of a dozen once lovely beaches along Lake Ontario in Toronto, only three are fit to swim in in summer.<BR/>Tony fix.<BR/><BR/>IvanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35697944.post-25531104684621611042007-05-26T04:36:00.000+08:002007-05-26T04:36:00.000+08:00Ate least they live on vividly in your memory. Wha...Ate least they live on vividly in your memory. What a beautiful word picture you painted. Too bad they no longer exist :(Becky Wolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13328240336833495892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35697944.post-31315351922626602462007-05-26T04:35:00.000+08:002007-05-26T04:35:00.000+08:00Tough.Tough.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35697944.post-49408440161339607932007-05-26T03:42:00.000+08:002007-05-26T03:42:00.000+08:00No pictures! Well then I'm not commenting!oh, cra...No pictures! Well then I'm not commenting!<BR/><BR/>oh, crap I just did<BR/>-PAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35697944.post-4516827649115353412007-05-26T02:12:00.000+08:002007-05-26T02:12:00.000+08:00I have places like that in my memory banks too - t...I have places like that in my memory banks too - too bad my kids will never get to experience things like I did.<BR/><BR/>LGS, you made me cry today (at my desk, no less! Try explaining that to your co-workers!) thinking of some of my childhood haunts.Jesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17308665452575511461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35697944.post-32324689885624671962007-05-26T00:35:00.000+08:002007-05-26T00:35:00.000+08:00Gosh what a paradise you lived in LGS! You present...Gosh what a paradise you lived in LGS! You presented such fabulous images for us to savor. What a shame it is all gone now...and all for the sake of high rises. Yes, man truly has come a long ways in technology...even to the point of destroying nature as your last line attests to so poignantly. My heart just aches when I see this kind of thing.Janice Thomsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02506920585319893814noreply@blogger.com