River: eddies in the flow

[mdlbear]

There's nothing quite like the thrill I get when something I've written comes back to me unexpected. It happened this morning when cflute quoted a line I had written in a comment a couple of days ago.

The scenery is beautiful, the rapids terrifying but exhilarating, and the deep water is wonderfully clear.

I was so delighted I called her as soon as I could, ignoring my usual fear (or do I need to demote that to "dislike" now?) of phones. And forgetting about her later post, which flower_cat had picked up on immediately as calling for cheering-up. Did I mention that we tend to notice entirely different things?

I still need to do that more often.

I think the first time something like this happened, it was an offhand remark I'd made in a Usenet post that wound up in somebody's signature quotes file a week or two later. Late 1980's, it would have been.

No, you don't have to ask. Go ahead and quote me.

Comments

[joecoustic.livejournal.com]

Years ago I used to play and sing at a coffee house many nights a week. A couple who used to come in often ended up becoming long distance - I think one went off to school. One night when they were together they let me know that they used to quote lines of one of my songs to each other, this one I think. It was a pretty good feeling :).

To me one of the wonders of writing is how something so deeply personal actually resonates with others for reasons unique to each.

[mdlbear]

And sometimes I'm surprised at what a difference it makes to know that someone loves a song that I haven't performed in years.

Wonders indeed.