Comments on: Oxbow lake of the soul

By: Ronna Detrick

Ronna Detrick — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:57:21 +0000

Soaking. Swimming. Nearly drowning in this metaphor, Lindsey. Beautiful. Thank you.

By: becca

becca — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:19:27 +0000

I’ve always loved watching water. Especially creeks and rivers. They are so much less massive than oceans and lakes, yet their movement is so beautiful and powerful. I just love watching the water find its way through the turns and over the bumps along the way.

So, because of this, I LOVED this post!

By: Dian Reid

Dian Reid — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:07:12 +0000

You put that metaphor to such good use here, Lindsey. As soon as you mentioned meandering, I got a vision of how my own life has meandered here and there, but always has led me right where I should be. I think about the oxbow lakes sometimes, myself, and wonder why they ended up lakes and not a part of the flowing river that is my life now. Like you, I can’t make sense of it. But I do know that even the lakes have shaped and marked me.

Posts of yours like this make me think, “Wow, how lucky those kids are to be raised by a woman like this.”

By: Lynn

Lynn — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:53:25 +0000

HA! That would be “beautifully written.” I was distracted by my two kids throwing something down the stairs!

By: Lynn

Lynn — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:52:41 +0000

This post is giving me goosebumps. Beautifully writing. Beautifully allegorical.

By: BigLittleWolf

BigLittleWolf — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:45:53 +0000

This is lovely imagery. Your words guide us through the movement, as fluidly as the metaphor.

I believe we try to direct our lives so strictly at times that we forget the discoveries of meandering. Of getting off track, and perhaps following a tributary rather than an artery.

By: Lorna

Lorna — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:03:34 +0000

I love the thought that the river of life can sand me to smoothness, rather than cut me on the rocks and fallen trees in the water…peaceful imagery.

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uberVU - social comments — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:50:11 +0000

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By: Terresa Wellborn

Terresa Wellborn — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:35:25 +0000

Eloquent view of time, self, and choice. I Tweeted a quote from this, hope you don’t mind!

By: Nicki

Nicki — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:00:33 +0000

Lindsey – This is beautiful. The words, the metaphor, the writing and the writer. Wonderfully done.