tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9052453698252224336.post6211363163062616163..comments2024-03-28T11:16:30.313+02:00Comments on Thoughts from Botswana by Lauri Kubuitsile: Will my writing find me a home?Laurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11112458658109887868noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9052453698252224336.post-72509815222628290982009-07-27T14:06:02.857+02:002009-07-27T14:06:02.857+02:00I have the same problem - only on a State level. ...I have the same problem - only on a State level. Whenever folks ask me where I grew up or where "home" is, I just laugh. Presumably I am now a "Mainah" since I have lived here almost 20 years. Yet, folk here reer to me as somene "from away". I have a bizarre southern, mid-western, Downeast accent (with a touch of Texas drawl on certain words) and I like chicken fried steak whilst living amongst those who've never heard of it.<br /><br />I'm an authentic mutt. It is, indeed, a privilege to have a multitude of views and ideas to choose from. The problem for me is that I mix them all up!groovyoldladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07971936982658984234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9052453698252224336.post-73472308675282971712009-07-27T13:26:15.128+02:002009-07-27T13:26:15.128+02:00Sue- It's funny how in your writing place beco...Sue- It's funny how in your writing place becomes so big and in my writing I must force myself to remember to include place, though we are simlarly displaced. <br /><br />Selma-You seem very suited to Oz but your writing, I find is often like mine, without a strong setting. Curious.Laurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11112458658109887868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9052453698252224336.post-22933103574424659522009-07-26T12:22:19.787+02:002009-07-26T12:22:19.787+02:00I often think about this having been born in Scotl...I often think about this having been born in Scotland and now living in Australia. In many ways I feel much more Australian than Scottish and when I write I do include a lot of imagery taken from the Aussie landscape. Perhaps I have already subconsciously put my roots down in the land of Oz.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9052453698252224336.post-58704723370854269702009-07-24T13:18:36.883+02:002009-07-24T13:18:36.883+02:00What a great quote! I often wonder if my need/des...What a great quote! I often wonder if my need/desire to write about place, and to turn my settings into characters themselves, has to do with my living outside my birth country. But as Vanessa said, it's not really a bad thing. Though sometimes uncomfortable, it can be quite useful, too.Sue Guineyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13556228394020314560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9052453698252224336.post-55739743928942288982009-07-24T12:18:06.788+02:002009-07-24T12:18:06.788+02:00Vanessa, I think you do have a point. I agree that...Vanessa, I think you do have a point. I agree that not belonging is a gift. <br /><br />Elizabeth- I was born in Balitmore and grew up and went to university in Wisconsin.Laurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11112458658109887868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9052453698252224336.post-53936432921124946532009-07-24T01:41:03.448+02:002009-07-24T01:41:03.448+02:00We moved around a lot when I was growing up, but a...We moved around a lot when I was growing up, but always lived in the Pacific Northwest. At 18 I left home and moved to Southern California. I'm 53 and I still don't feel that I "belong" here. I'll never move away from my family and friends or California, but I dream of "greener, wetter pastures", and I set much of my fiction in the Pacific Northwest. <br /><br />Where in the states are you from, (if that's not too nosy)Elizabeth Bradleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03150221675618198674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9052453698252224336.post-56979929316706642372009-07-23T12:46:04.352+02:002009-07-23T12:46:04.352+02:00On the other hand, having a sense of rootlessness ...On the other hand, having a sense of rootlessness is a real gift. How utterly boring to 'only' belong in a single place! And to have no aches to drive us as writers is a killer. Long live 'not belonging', I say.Vanessa Gebbiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00833187671441310234noreply@blogger.com