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Post by Cenacle on Jul 3, 2021 9:23:09 GMT -5
It's been 4 years since AC was online as forums. Maybe seems a little weird to "be back" - especially since it's more like a sudden migration after a sad expulsion. But, now that we are arriving, let's catch up! Where have you been in the past 4 years and what have you been doing? Talking of this might help the new environment to start to fill with the flavors and colors of our lives. I'll take the plunge. In 2017, I was living where I am now, in the Boston, Massachusetts area, married to a wonderful person who ruins my old woes with her smile and kiss. I had been at that time working for the same company for 5 years, as a senior technical writer. I liked what I did, the people I worked with, and this job afforded me my own time to write and edit my literary journal The Cenacle. Scriptor Press New England and SpiritPlants Radio are my major projects, then & now. In 2019, I got laid off with a lot of other people at my company. Waves of layoffs. I was in the last of these. The company had been a startup, was now global, and time to shed some costs. That is, people. Nobody important there knew what I did, or that it matters. Within months, they were hiring contractors to try and fill the gap left by laying me off. 2020 the pandemic hit and so KD & I laid low, & I took contract tw work. Last fall, I was brought on at a synthetic biology company to help document their tools testing for COVID-19. Good work, good company, good people. Like what I had lost in 2019. Maybe better. Contract is through December, hoping it will go on and become full-time. Been writing through it all. At my website, I started a private forums for the contributors to The Cenacle, because I remember the pleasure of forums like Arcanum and Studio 8 and SpiritPlants (last more a site for psychedelics discussions but also community). I figured it was time to try and give AC that again, since, honest to Ra, Facebook just does not appeal to me as a place to community build. It's done there, I know, but I like forums. Old school on this point, I guess. Anyway, that's my nickel tour. What's yours? Jump in, let us old friends start to really catch up!
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Post by judih on Jul 3, 2021 11:09:48 GMT -5
Hi, Cenacle! I'm judih, now and then, in the original AC. Then I was teaching English and completing an MEd degree incorporating the arts in Education (Lesley College). Now, I'm teaching Mindfulness to kids and adults on my kibbutz, and studying qigong in Broshim University, Tel Aviv, with the aim of being a facilitator.
I have continued to write mostly haiku and some slightly longer forms of poetry. I belong to two excellent poetry forums (the Electrolounge Forum and Studio 8) and the in-person (or lately via zoom) Voices Poetry Collective which is based in Israel, but which is also represented in the US, Canada and the UK. So glad to see AC back and waiting for us to populate it with writing, photography, artwork and spoken word.
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Post by shannon on Jul 3, 2021 17:33:48 GMT -5
Hello Everyone! This is Shannon (Delsol from the original community). Am very happy to be here and look forward to reading the excellent poetry which is sure to come; have missed your voices! P.S. Thank you Cenacle for this amazing gift - it is a pure good. Yay!
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Post by goldenmyst on Jul 3, 2021 18:33:06 GMT -5
As always I am the mad poet goldenmyst. Still editing and self-publishing my books. Finally moved out of my late Mom's house to an apartment near the university I graduated from three times. The area and its people provide great inspiration for my writing. Deep Underground Poetry has been my primary place of poetic residence for a long time. This site offers asylum for writers whose work tends to be over the edge. That is what I've done during my early retirement. My non-ordinary reality still gets me in a lot of controversies. But often there is a glimmer of crazy fairy dust at the pulse of dawn.
John
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Post by acupojo on Jul 4, 2021 11:06:35 GMT -5
Honestly don't know what to say here. Just wanted to say hi and that I hope you all build something great here of course.
I'm more than willing to provide any of the old AC graphics & files I created, when & where I can, if desired. Already gave Brom a cloud link to some essential stuff that might help.
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Post by volkov on Jul 7, 2021 17:10:55 GMT -5
Hello all, Volkov here, yes that same irritatingly rational, logical fellow from the old AC.
I actually left AC before it shut down for good in 2017, my older brother passed away in 2015, and I lost all interest in almost everything for quite awhile after. I was not in a good place. Thankfully I had friends and family as a support network, as well as the help of anti-depressants to pull me out of the darkness.
Otherwise, there's not a whole lot going on in my life, I left my old job at a microbiology lab in 2019 after they got bought by another company and they couldn't guarantee me that I would still have a job in a year. Went to work in a quality lab, but it wasn't a good fit, so I left that job and took a contract job in 2020 as a biochemist, and that turned into a full time job, making substantially more money with better benefits than I had as a microbiologist, and I've been there ever since.
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Post by lowell on Jul 8, 2021 6:28:34 GMT -5
Hello everyone! (I’ll try this again since my first post didn’t take),
I’m Lowell. College professor, filmmaker, animator, scooterist, motovlogger, wannabe traveler, and all the weird thing one would imagine conncected to those interest. It’s great to see this site is back, a placed I learn the art of discussion, arguing, listening and thinking.
Looking forward to what may come.
Lowell
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Post by winddance on Jul 8, 2021 10:51:53 GMT -5
hey, it's winddance how wonderful to see AC back again. thanks to all that made it happen. I have been mostly hangin' out at the poet sanctuary site, which sad to say is slowing to a standstill. now writing mostly haiku, renku and ghazal. I retired from my job at the public library at the end of february last year with hopes of touring the country with my hubby and our teardrop camper "wall-e". two weeks later the lockdown, journey on hold.......great to be back in the blue.
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Post by meta on Jul 8, 2021 13:20:37 GMT -5
Hi, meta here. I mainly hung out in the spiritual pages, but kind of disappeared before the old one closed. I was going through a lot. Things are much better now. I haven't written much, but I am hoping that this will bring me back to this thing that I love and miss.
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Post by acutesteelepyro on Jul 8, 2021 13:31:00 GMT -5
I was Accute Pyro (due to an unfixable typo) . I was / am sort of a voice of the poor and self educated. Reaching only grade 9 of 12 and never completing high-school. I spent a few years as a vagabond traveling the u.s.a. I may or may not have illegally entered Mexico and Canada (though that is hearsay ) . I am told that what I lack in intelligence i make up for with wisdom ... though im also told a wise man never says as much. I will be sure to torment you all with typos and bad sentence structure for years to come , but maybe I can open a window to a house seldom seen .
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Post by piph on Jul 13, 2021 17:51:13 GMT -5
hi, its piph...
still don't know who I am, still looking at that.
Since getting the boot at AC I stopped writing poetry altogether, basically lost any zeal for it. Something else was brewing and I have , since , been engaged in an astounding PhD level research project. I say PhD because the research is original, and ya know, wow, was I ever surprised.
I guess around the time Arcanum shut down I had already made a decision in my world, I wasn't going to read anyone. I didn't want anyone's half-baked analysis, I was tired of myth and religion, worn out with mysticism and legend and who trusts history and facts?? and the horrible media. Instead, I would begin to answer the annoying questions in my common presence through direct observation. I would begin with planet earth, through the satellite, and just take it in. That was 2017 and this is now 2021, wow -- insane, aggravating, illuminating journey through an objective past -- and what a load of horse-poop we are all fed. On top of it comes to us so fragmented, just dribs and drabs. Just losing the essence, entirely.
Anyway, I did write a poem, in Open Mic the other day, and it felt good. It feels good to read the other personal messages left here in this thread. Thanks.
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Post by goldenmyst on Jul 14, 2021 20:20:47 GMT -5
piph, I love the posts you make on the processes that have shaped our planet earth as I've read them on FB. They are brilliant and original just as you said. And I am overjoyed to have you back here with the prospect of your poetry as a relish to your science. You are my dream woman in earth science and poetry and the myriad strands of wisdom you have blessed my life with.
XoXoXo John
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Post by beththepoet on Jul 15, 2021 8:45:30 GMT -5
Hey guys! How surreal and wonderful to be back here. I'm 31 now! Been writing poetry ever since I left this site and have a few small books published.
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Post by Bromanoph on Jul 15, 2021 19:36:48 GMT -5
Hey guys! How surreal and wonderful to be back here. I'm 31 now! Been writing poetry ever since I left this site and have a few small books published. Yes! Welcome back Bethany. How do I get my hands on copies of your books?! My library now feels unfinished without them. Much Love, Brom.
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Post by goldenmyst on Jul 15, 2021 19:53:32 GMT -5
Bethany wonderful to see you here again! Congrats on your books. Your presence was missed by me.
John
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