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Judith Hannah Weiss's avatar

I am honored by your comments.

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Judith Hannah Weiss's avatar

Thank you. Please share my work.

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Wendy Martin's avatar

Reptile dysfunction-I love it!

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Monica P.'s avatar

I can testify to iguanas falling out of trees. It is so hot here now they are multiplying like rabbits. The young ones are cute and bright green as they age they turn into dragonlike creature with spikes and eat any flower I try to grow. So enjoy your post and your strength to get through the times you are now living.

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Kathryn Porterfield's avatar

I love your work! You certainly did not forget how to be clever and see the best in a difficult situation.

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Kathleen Eagan's avatar

love the iguana! and the order of nouns...so many details that we must master to be " functional" in this broken world. you are amazing and we honor you.

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Judith Hannah Weiss's avatar

I am deeply grateful for your comments and your readership. Deep bow.

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Jim Cox's avatar

“You can put up a front, but not a new frontal lobe.” This line is fraught with earth-shaking significance, and then your description of not being able to read or write brings your lucky readers into your post-injury world. What a zany, mixed up mental state that must have been! Thank you for your guided tour of bewilderment, including your colorful description of learning word sequences backward and your observation that you have not had any use for that skill ever since.

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Sheila's avatar

What can I say?? 'ust keep moving (nonliterally) forward regardless that it may be sideways!!!

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Michael Gerald-Yamasaki's avatar

What I just don’t believe about this story is the part where you say you haven’t won a Pulitzer. That’s not believable. Sorry.

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Judith Hannah Weiss's avatar

Wow! Thank you! I never use exclamation points. But your words elicit them. I'd like to know more about you.

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Michael Gerald-Yamasaki's avatar

I took my first around the world trip in 2018 along with several more than half way around to Asia via Europe and the Middle East and back, I’ve completed my fourth circumnavigation in less than 10 years.

The 2018 trip was Hong Kong - Kathmandu and Western Nepal for the Himalayan Writers Workshop. HWW started my path as a writer. My second HWW with my family in 2022 sealed the deal as a writer and Book Passage Travel Writers Conference in Corte Madera polished both me and my writing.

I haven’t mentioned photography. I am a bird photographer and have expanded to people photography, travel photography. Taking photos allows me to study light, which is my passion, studying light, slowly gaining insight you might say.

Your comment about Einstein. I have a beef with Einstein and his theories about light. I’m working on a book about light and its meaning for all of us.

I have a question for you. As a writer how do you deal with a subject that is far outside people’s general knowledge? My challenge about writing about light is it quickly gets into the guts of physics and I know just the sound of that word sends some readers into mental lockdown and leaves almost all of them shaking their heads. Whaaat?

Any hints, tips, sage advice.

I’m also an infodumper (demonstration above)

A new interest is exploring the world through a neurodivergent lens. So, I’ve discovered myself. A profoundly gifted, infodumper who pebbles.

And with that I’ll close. But you seem to be a person I would like to know. Um, probably a few pebbles coming your way. 😉

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Shifra Clara Wasserstein's avatar

Thank you so much for sharing with us, the devastating results of recklessness 💔

And in the same time the unimaginable resilience it took for you to be reborn and to get here 🙏

Your incredible tenacity feeds the fire in me. I’m deeply grateful for you inspiring me

seeing how you keep on going against such big odds.

Your courage is beyond what I can describe, I can just say: You are truly like a phoenix 🐦‍🔥 rising out of the ashes 🔥❤️

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Judith Hannah Weiss's avatar

I do not see myself as a phoenix, but I'm very grateful to you for reading my work and for your comments. Deep bow.

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Judith Hannah Weiss's avatar

Thank you. I am honored by your words.

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Karen Rand Anderson's avatar

Each time I read one of your posts, I crack up with mirth at your delightful phrases and descriptive wording, and get a pang of sadness at the same time. A twisty-turny life journey, for sure. Thanks for sharing it with us, Judith.

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Judith Hannah Weiss's avatar

Deeply honored by your words. Thank you.

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CLE's avatar

Like your other subscribers, I am very much enjoying reading your posts. Love the word play! Backwards or forwards....

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Judith Hannah Weiss's avatar

Thank you for your words. Deep bow.

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Judith Hannah Weiss's avatar

Thank you. Please keep reading my stack. I had two pieces every week and they each take two minutes or less to read. I hope you will share them with others or encourage them to subscribe.

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