Forgetfulone

One of the great things about the staff of The Ris­ing Blog­ger is that we are each drawn in dif­fer­ent direc­tions. We do have a great group of review­ers. I tend to steer away from any­thing of a reli­gious nature. Don’t mis­un­der­stand me, I have great respect for all peo­ples’ beliefs, but if it over­whelms the blog I tend to tune out. I am glad that I did not pass by a blog called For­get­fu­lone. The author uses the name For­get­fu­lone as well. She is a devout Chris­t­ian and her work and life is framed by her beliefs.

In her post ftom Sep­tem­ber 23, 2007 My Name Is she writes a fic­tional account of an expe­ri­ences in her life with alco­holics. She writes in the first per­son of a man named Tal­bot. This is a pow­er­ful post, “I like to hang out on the back porch by myself and drink and think, though I would really pre­fer my wife to get drunk with me. She won’t. And the prob­lem is that when I drink, I can’t stop. I drink, and drink, and drink some more. I turn the I-pod on and lis­ten to music, and I’m hav­ing so much fun and so much time to think in my own lit­tle world that I con­tinue to drink. Pretty soon, I’m howl­ing at the moon, um, er, singing to the music… loudly. Trou­ble is, that wakes my wife who is already upstairs sleep­ing, and I hap­pen to be right below her win­dow.” This is just a ter­rific post that will touch you a great deal. It is our Post of the Day!