Comments on: Bottled Reflections http://www.commonties.com/blog/2007/05/10/bottled-reflections/ Listen to stories on anything from honeymoons to WWII, from award-winning journalists to first-time writers alike, from anywhere in the world. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:13:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: mike http://www.commonties.com/blog/2007/05/10/bottled-reflections/#comment-17675 Wed, 30 May 2007 05:28:58 +0000 http://www.commonties.com/blog/2007/05/10/bottled-reflections/#comment-17675 Karen,thank you for sharing your story.It is one of inspiration. I know how it feels to be traped by depression and acholism.I deal with both on an everyday basis. The nice part is recovery.I have been sober since dec 17 1990.and I'm in theropy as welll.(sorry I'm not the worlds greatest speller).I can ay that the deression has cost me many jobs and a career.Today I just rey to make it thru one day at a time and if that is too much 5 minuites at a time. Karen,thank you for sharing your story.It is one of inspiration.
I know how it feels to be traped by depression and acholism.I deal with both on an everyday basis. The nice part is recovery.I have been sober since dec 17 1990.and I’m in theropy as welll.(sorry I’m not the worlds greatest speller).I can ay that the deression has cost me many jobs and a career.Today I just rey to make it thru one day at a time and if that is too much 5 minuites at a time.

]]> by: Patricia Jones http://www.commonties.com/blog/2007/05/10/bottled-reflections/#comment-16708 Fri, 11 May 2007 12:05:14 +0000 http://www.commonties.com/blog/2007/05/10/bottled-reflections/#comment-16708 I have had both the privilege and the honor of knowing Karen for almost three years. We stumbled into each other, and into creative writing, at Stephens College. We have shared stories, lives, and our families with each other. She has become the older sister I have never known, and the true friend I have desperately needed. Karen does more than tell her story when she writes her poetry and essays, her plays and performance pieces. Her words are stones thrown, not at glass houses, but into the still ponds of certain knowledge around which lives are built. The story ripples break against Lilliputian shores, disrupting the constant. One of our toughest critics, and most revered professors, once overheard a student in British Lit remark, “I’m never going to remember any of this crap.” She responded, “Memorizing the textbook is worthless, if something we read makes you think, then I have succeeded and so have you.” Karen, you are a success, and so am I. Keep throwing stones, even when they get heavy. I have had both the privilege and the honor of knowing Karen for almost three years. We stumbled into each other, and into creative writing, at Stephens College. We have shared stories, lives, and our families with each other. She has become the older sister I have never known, and the true friend I have desperately needed.

Karen does more than tell her story when she writes her poetry and essays, her plays and performance pieces. Her words are stones thrown, not at glass houses, but into the still ponds of certain knowledge around which lives are built. The story ripples break against Lilliputian shores, disrupting the constant.

One of our toughest critics, and most revered professors, once overheard a student in British Lit remark, “I’m never going to remember any of this crap.” She responded, “Memorizing the textbook is worthless, if something we read makes you think, then I have succeeded and so have you.”

Karen, you are a success, and so am I. Keep throwing stones, even when they get heavy.

]]> by: Kathy http://www.commonties.com/blog/2007/05/10/bottled-reflections/#comment-16623 Thu, 10 May 2007 15:55:54 +0000 http://www.commonties.com/blog/2007/05/10/bottled-reflections/#comment-16623 You go girl. This was wonderful, thought-provoking, inspirational and most of all, honest and realistic. I believe that you've achieved your goal of bringing hope to others. Thank you for sharing this with us. You go girl. This was wonderful, thought-provoking, inspirational and most of all, honest and realistic. I believe that you’ve achieved your goal of bringing hope to others. Thank you for sharing this with us.

]]> by: Sam Huston http://www.commonties.com/blog/2007/05/10/bottled-reflections/#comment-16613 Thu, 10 May 2007 14:33:22 +0000 http://www.commonties.com/blog/2007/05/10/bottled-reflections/#comment-16613 THANK YOU for that story and for having the courage to share it. It's inspiring! THANK YOU for that story and for having the courage to share it. It’s inspiring!

]]> by: Jen McCaffrey(sirard) http://www.commonties.com/blog/2007/05/10/bottled-reflections/#comment-16606 Thu, 10 May 2007 13:46:09 +0000 http://www.commonties.com/blog/2007/05/10/bottled-reflections/#comment-16606 Karen you are an AMAZING writer. I got goose-bumps reading this again. I assume I am one of those neighborhood kids in your yard. Funny, the stuff you do and don't remember from childhood. I do remember that Civic. I'm so proud of you that you got clean. That in itself is one of the greatest accomplishments. Keep writing. Feel free to plug me... Ha ha. Love ya, Jen Karen you are an AMAZING writer. I got goose-bumps reading this again. I assume I am one of those neighborhood kids in your yard. Funny, the stuff you do and don’t remember from childhood. I do remember that Civic. I’m so proud of you that you got clean. That in itself is one of the greatest accomplishments. Keep writing. Feel free to plug me… Ha ha.
Love ya,
Jen

]]>