Wow! Thankyou. Ive never worked so hard on a piece. It was so important to me to go deep, to make seeming odd or banal connections. To transform the whole thing as going from a vow to someone else to a vow to myself. But you know with the sagas, the cast of characters is so wide, thre realities of past and present so mixed. The symbols so ordinary, yet almost cosmic. When I look at it, it's like, Yeah yeah, no big words, no lyric sentences. But this other layer was so important for me to grasp. I think and I wonder fi as a memoirist , you do too, that you dance between the waves and the undercurrent and you hope you dont drown you or the reader in the process. I have to say, I dont write as therapy. In hard times I engage in the battle of "if I can attach language to this, it will not get me". It is a dedicated quest that keeps me engaged in the basement of shit thats going on, but also elevates me to a place I can breathe,

And then, when other peop;e "get it"

I truly feel the other reward of writing, (Then I have to live with the fact that 100 people will take a gander and I have to remember that this is primarily by me, for me, Not for a platform. Thankyou again, to someone who knows the shit and the shine. mmm