tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post2216768459232474043..comments2024-03-27T16:19:53.023+00:00Comments on Friko's World: Stream Of ConsciousnessFrikohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04277167831642088694noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-13482620147052079422010-09-07T19:38:44.793+01:002010-09-07T19:38:44.793+01:00I was a good and obedient boy. My mother invaded m...I was a good and obedient boy. My mother invaded my room and threw away books she disapproved of. <br /><br />Yet here I am on my island. Go figure.<br /><br />(word verification was "henfave"!!)Mark Kerstetterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13307987573435067415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-16004771690661122942010-08-30T18:49:41.944+01:002010-08-30T18:49:41.944+01:00Striking several chords actually. I love this
pie...Striking several chords actually. I love this <br />piece of daydreaming, this gentle burr that<br />burrows its way to your cortical surface<br />and then blossoms onto the pages of your<br />cyber Musings. I want to share it with others<br />and as I so often do with good writing by<br />my other cyber-friends, I posted it on my<br />site too. Sharing, like loving, increasing the<br />flow fromGlenn Buttkushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10680725814199700692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-22746845992871483682010-08-29T22:03:02.133+01:002010-08-29T22:03:02.133+01:00I do love reading your blog posts Friko - I think ...I do love reading your blog posts Friko - I think they strike a chord with all of usMollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08604864977387798470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-64948225203605606362010-08-29T18:01:22.395+01:002010-08-29T18:01:22.395+01:00Arkansas Patti - I've heard others voicing s...Arkansas Patti - I've heard others voicing similar feelings, some of them parents!<br /><br />madamebutterfly - Ah no, not possible with me. I moved a long way away. Permanent residency was not part of the plan.<br /><br />Molly - I am glad to hear it, no Insurance Company would pay up for setting the house on fire by reading incendiary material!<br /><br />Renee - Am guten Vorbild Frikohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04277167831642088694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-15812361051486748132010-08-29T17:44:41.263+01:002010-08-29T17:44:41.263+01:00robert - the teenage years pass, although they m...robert - the teenage years pass, although they may feel endless. eventually your boy will grow up and become as pleasant a human being as his Dad.<br /><br />Jackie - it is never too late!<br /><br />marciamayo - so really, they should have stopped me, shouldn't they?<br /><br />Vicki Lane - Mine didn't mind too much, they supplied me with books, after all. It was the night-time Frikohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04277167831642088694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-19547588211159769722010-08-29T13:51:41.979+01:002010-08-29T13:51:41.979+01:00Just imagine if somebody had told you way back the...Just imagine if somebody had told you way back then that you would end up where you are, doing what you do? Aside from having taken a lot of the fun out of the living of your life, you probably would never have believed them. <br /><br />I find the happenstance of life quite fascinating, and people's stories of how they get to where they are, the most interesting of all. I am certainly gladDeborahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10892637441668897411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-87172399149046365152010-08-29T06:16:24.277+01:002010-08-29T06:16:24.277+01:00Oh what a wonderful read - the clash of generation...Oh what a wonderful read - the clash of generations - the need to be different. Good on you for being yourself.Marilyn & Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00851884880790561276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-68718365842476720322010-08-29T03:28:12.954+01:002010-08-29T03:28:12.954+01:00Oh what a rebel you were. All that reading under t...Oh what a rebel you were. All that reading under the blanket led you to the hard stuff.. blog-reading by computer light.Hilaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12787493532006658679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-6617277457774303372010-08-29T00:18:54.261+01:002010-08-29T00:18:54.261+01:00The straight and narrow life tends to push us to g...The straight and narrow life tends to push us to go away, far away. But when we get there, isn’t it a bit of the same, in a different language?Vagabondehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10774109692564954568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-38556162548233227302010-08-28T20:41:58.246+01:002010-08-28T20:41:58.246+01:00My father's parents died long before I was bor...My father's parents died long before I was born, but my mother's parents did not at all follow the pattern you suggest. My grandfather the Russian spy found that politics became too hot to handle, and was rather glad, I suspect, to renounce the other-worldliness of his youth in favour of unashamed lust. My grandmother was both political and sexy (the latter at least to her Duchess Omniumhttp://www.duchessomnium.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-7639018979923472532010-08-28T19:38:05.583+01:002010-08-28T19:38:05.583+01:00I think I've been trying to make up for being ...I think I've been trying to make up for being a bit of a goody two-shoes when I was growing up, by becoming a reprehensible old lady - who, by the way, LOVES to wear purple!Jinksyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01686101468214361004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-63241281407201193082010-08-28T18:11:08.639+01:002010-08-28T18:11:08.639+01:00Good show. It all turned out well. If they hadn...Good show. It all turned out well. If they hadn't cared, you wouldn't have been a rebel.Manzanitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06467261212623663365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-22554744610809284532010-08-28T17:25:49.339+01:002010-08-28T17:25:49.339+01:00ich weiss nicht, ob Eltern wirklich etwas gegen re...ich weiss nicht, ob Eltern wirklich etwas gegen revoltierende Kinder tun können. Vielleicht können sie nur versuchen, den Sohn oder die Tochter auf ihrem Weg zum Guten hin zu lenken. Meine Mutter hatte mir in dieser Hinsicht sehr viel Freiheit gelassen und heute bin ich ihr dankbar dafür... Bis bald und schönen Abend, Friko!<br />RenéeRenéenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-35051133307448361002010-08-28T15:30:40.158+01:002010-08-28T15:30:40.158+01:00I, too, like floating along on the stream of consc...I, too, like floating along on the stream of consciousness! If only we'd had a clue back then, along with all those bothersome hormones, I wonder how different our lives would be? Yours seems to have turned out fine!<br /><br />My mother used to tell us how she'd make a tent with the blankets and read under them, by the light of a candle, so my grandmother wouldn't see the light undermollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03797484583400519909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-23662524651244903972010-08-28T13:13:26.711+01:002010-08-28T13:13:26.711+01:00And it doesn't end with their teens anymore......And it doesn't end with their teens anymore...in the good old days your parents showed you the door aand you were expected to understand the meaning....now its loft conversations so they can continue to live with you but maintain their independence....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-19664236957641660882010-08-28T12:17:35.481+01:002010-08-28T12:17:35.481+01:00Sometimes I feel badly that I have no children til...Sometimes I feel badly that I have no children till I view a friend or family member trying to cope with a teen. <br />Seems like such severe punishment just for wanting a baby to nurture and an heir.lolArkansas Pattihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14156004753267665579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-87365717888236835692010-08-28T09:27:32.918+01:002010-08-28T09:27:32.918+01:00This made me think of my three-year-old granddaugh...This made me think of my three-year-old granddaughter who has such beauty and femininity already and I dread the decades ahead!Taborhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15257045780724471840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-76770024120364647292010-08-28T08:04:33.552+01:002010-08-28T08:04:33.552+01:00So glad you stuck around. I don't know about t...So glad you stuck around. I don't know about teenage years, I seem to have been a constant source of frustration to my mother from birth until present. I don't think I ever did what she had written on the tin.<br /><br />“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them” - Oscar Wilde.Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13494219959077922220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-74330352515235037652010-08-28T03:28:58.468+01:002010-08-28T03:28:58.468+01:00Britain and its citizens should count themselves l...Britain and its citizens should count themselves lucky to be the place where your free spirit landed!<br /><br />It does take a while to figure out who we are and where we belong. Seems like it worked out well in the end ... yes?Bonnie Zieman, M.Ed.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00282469017360136275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-27145450154731745482010-08-28T02:58:43.865+01:002010-08-28T02:58:43.865+01:00Enjoyed this. I like to 'paddle in the stream...Enjoyed this. I like to 'paddle in the stream of consciousness' too.ellen abbotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00535475792150335186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-60156688417938551722010-08-28T02:30:59.392+01:002010-08-28T02:30:59.392+01:00Oh, yes, the flashlight under the bedclothes gambi...Oh, yes, the flashlight under the bedclothes gambit. Knew it well. Amazing we all managed to make it to adulthood, eh?Susan Scheid (Raining Acorns)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02827286681242730183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-79600113307197785382010-08-28T01:39:51.016+01:002010-08-28T01:39:51.016+01:00Parents are people who after years of trying but f...Parents are people who after years of trying but failing to completely screw you up by their lives, make one last gargantuan attempt to completely screw you up by their deaths.Jimmy McPheehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337642943929263638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-57875915671717797842010-08-28T01:25:35.896+01:002010-08-28T01:25:35.896+01:00Nice post, Friko! I enjoy paddling in the stream o...Nice post, Friko! I enjoy paddling in the stream of consciousness.<br /><br />My mother's idea of punishment was to send me to my room -- which suited me as then I could read. Thank heavens, she never minded that!Vicki Lanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08114677510459055768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-58465823027201162632010-08-28T01:15:53.480+01:002010-08-28T01:15:53.480+01:00all that damned reading ultimately led to blogging...all that damned reading ultimately led to blogging.marciamayohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18185069576683872041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294026230680025155.post-19742803261539024302010-08-28T00:21:20.245+01:002010-08-28T00:21:20.245+01:00I was boringly good as a child and then as a teena...I was boringly good as a child and then as a teenager and I suppose continue to be so...Oh Dear!Jackiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12998628507844056717noreply@blogger.com