Comments on: I Want To Hold Your Hand http://www.ducts.org/content/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/ The Webzine of Personal Stories Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:23:21 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: sturgeone http://www.ducts.org/content/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-740 sturgeone Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:10:54 +0000 http://s27317.gridserver.com/content/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/#comment-740 my dad had it......i've enjoyed reading your pieces on the Alzheimer's....... my dad had it……i’ve enjoyed reading your pieces on the Alzheimer’s…….

]]> By: Clifton Buck-Kauffman http://www.ducts.org/content/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-259 Clifton Buck-Kauffman Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:52:33 +0000 http://s27317.gridserver.com/content/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/#comment-259 Fascinating peek into your present and past, I enjoyed your poignant baring. Best wishes Gaby to you, and yours, from Saigon/Cotati... Fascinating peek into your present and past, I enjoyed your poignant baring. Best wishes Gaby to you, and yours, from Saigon/Cotati…

]]> By: Dede Kammerling http://www.ducts.org/content/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-186 Dede Kammerling Wed, 21 May 2008 02:22:26 +0000 http://s27317.gridserver.com/content/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/#comment-186 Dear Gabrielle, I was just introduced to your piece by my friend, Roger Lipman. He responded to it and spoke so highly of it that I wanted to read it myself. My own mother has had Alzheimer's disease for about 7 years and I have been watching her decline. While she was quite physical with my brother and me as we grew, her touch, as you describe in your essay, has become increasingly rigid and infrequent over the years. The fingers on her left hand are continually clenched tightly in a fist; it is almost impossible to pierce them. I was both moved and comforted by your heartfelt essay. Thank you. Dear Gabrielle,

I was just introduced to your piece by my friend, Roger Lipman. He responded to it and spoke so highly of it that I wanted to read it myself. My own mother has had Alzheimer’s disease for about 7 years and I have been watching her decline. While she was quite physical with my brother and me as we grew, her touch, as you describe in your essay, has become increasingly rigid and infrequent over the years. The fingers on her left hand are continually clenched tightly in a fist; it is almost impossible to pierce them. I was both moved and comforted by your heartfelt essay. Thank you.

]]> By: Frances http://www.ducts.org/content/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-108 Frances Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:03:12 +0000 http://s27317.gridserver.com/content/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/#comment-108 Thank you, Gabrielle for a story that not only tells me more about that delicious mother of yours, whom I knew, but share so wonderfully your own particular delight in her exoticism. This piece appreciates everything about her, even her selfishness. And as an artist/mother myself it gives me hope... Thank you, Gabrielle for a story that not only tells me more about that delicious mother of yours, whom I knew, but share so wonderfully your own particular delight in her exoticism. This piece appreciates everything about her, even her selfishness. And as an artist/mother myself it gives me hope…

]]> By: Roger Lipman http://www.ducts.org/content/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-100 Roger Lipman Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:49:22 +0000 http://s27317.gridserver.com/content/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/#comment-100 Dear Gabrielle, This is a very powerful and evocative piece, how we never stop searching for what we missed, even as we come to terms with it and the complexities of a parent's love. I like the essay and your writing very much. Roger Lipman Dear Gabrielle,

This is a very powerful and evocative piece, how we never stop searching for what we missed, even as we come to terms with it and the complexities of a parent’s love. I like the essay and your writing very much.

Roger Lipman

]]> By: Jeanette http://www.ducts.org/content/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-96 Jeanette Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:03:43 +0000 http://s27317.gridserver.com/content/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/#comment-96 Wow Gabrielle! Truly captivating! You brought me to tears....such an intimate look, absorbing and enlightening. Wow Gabrielle! Truly captivating! You brought me to tears….such an intimate look, absorbing and enlightening.

]]> By: Catherine Henry http://www.ducts.org/content/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-95 Catherine Henry Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:57:12 +0000 http://s27317.gridserver.com/content/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/#comment-95 Gabrielle, Congratulations on a powerfully moving story which brought me to tears. Your style is so accessible, so easy and fluid while the tales own undercurrent effortlessly sweeps the reader along. I look forward to more articles from you and than you for sharing this. Gabrielle,

Congratulations on a powerfully moving story which brought me to tears. Your style is so accessible, so easy and fluid while the tales own undercurrent effortlessly sweeps the reader along. I look forward to more articles from you and than you for sharing this.

]]> By: Stephanie Hart http://www.ducts.org/content/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-83 Stephanie Hart Tue, 25 Dec 2007 22:04:49 +0000 http://s27317.gridserver.com/content/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/#comment-83 This is a powerful and compassionate portrait of your mother; her hands seem to be startling metaphor for all her complexities and ultimately of her love for you. You are a gifted writer; this is a courageous piece. Thank you for sharing it with all of us. This is a powerful and compassionate portrait of your mother; her hands seem to be startling metaphor for all her complexities and ultimately of her love for you. You are a gifted writer; this is a courageous piece. Thank you for sharing it with all of us.

]]> By: Angela http://www.ducts.org/content/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-51 Angela Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:04:18 +0000 http://s27317.gridserver.com/content/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/#comment-51 Lyrical, poetic, emotionally honest - your words "touch" us and enable us to hold your hand. Lyrical, poetic, emotionally honest – your words “touch” us and enable us to hold your hand.

]]> By: Sue Repko http://www.ducts.org/content/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-50 Sue Repko Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:19:19 +0000 http://s27317.gridserver.com/content/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/#comment-50 Gabrielle, I love the intergenerational observations on the nature of our hands and their power to let us connect. You paint a portrait of our hands as markers of our changing relationships - that turning of the tables when we must begin to care for our parents. Gabrielle, I love the intergenerational observations on the nature of our hands and their power to let us connect. You paint a portrait of our hands as markers of our changing relationships – that turning of the tables when we must begin to care for our parents.

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