#34 Mumbling agrammatical (20 March 2010)

Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:00:53 -0700

From: George <bronax@verizon.net>

To: John Theofanis <jtheofanis@austin.rr.com>

Subject: Folkiness and fusty

Sent you your writer's good book.

Sent you today a copy of an informal email message

to my law buddy Richard from Long Beach, showing

you mumbling agrammatical style, informal.

  

Good luck with writing book. Lots of good lore in

it to help you free up and make more alive your writing style. Remember, its just talking on paper, only one step from thinking on paper. Needn't be formal.

As Hemingway once said , about his writing style,

you have to know the rules before you break them.

He was a newspaper guy before he began writing

those classic novels.

   

George 

#33 isn't a habit (5 March 2010)

Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:04:33 -0800

From: George B <bronax@verizon.net>

To: John Theofanis <jtheofanis@austin.rr.com>

Subject: Boddyness for usted

Thought of selling my house is depressing.

Going to some stinky senior's home is distressing.

I am reading great writing book for you, ostensiblily

about writing murder mysteries, but applicable to

any type of writing.

   

And everything you do that isn't a habit, transforms you.

   

You could write a pop book about oldsters and the computer. I am almost finished with my tax data

complilation. Have your account check new benefits

for people, people in school, etc.

      

Your brother refers to you as Johnny. What do you call him? Mikey?

George 

#32-- You Can Open Up (27 Feb 2010)

Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:32:55 -0800

From: George <bronax@verizon.net>

To: John Theofanis <jtheofanis@austin.rr.com>

Subject: Strange discovery in your prose

Open your eyes. Everything you think and write and plan and hope and dream, is a map to your secret inside needs and hopes. Just look, and you shall see.

You are a born open warm person, that got somehow seared in fear shut as a wound is cauterized with a hot blade surface. Now you are grown up,

you can open up, flower, and favor us all with your experience, knowledge, and caring. 

John Theofanis wrote:

Hi George,

This note is helpful to me. Learned about myself and you took the insights from my own writing!

I very much appreciate this note!

It's late and so I'm going to call it a night. This email made it a better night and will carry me forward, buoy me up!

See-you,

John

*********

John,

Don't forget, big boys buoy themselves up!!!!

    Nice we don't live in Chilie, where earthquake survivors on CNN report dealing with the 4 types of earthquake waves, P, S, and up and down and

    back and forth surface waves. Expert opinion suggests less deaths than in Hait, because Chile had better building codes and

 better and stronger built buildings than did Haiti. Working on clearing out my house, a year long struggle. Better

 now than later. I had tree cutting guy give me a cheaper estimate for just cutting off three large limbs from

 pine tree, and I gave him a box of books I hadn't yet read, history, autobiography of Bill Clinton, CS Lewis,

   history of river Yangzse in China, etc. Office gal said he liked history and religion. Today is talk walk indoors. We are having sporadic rain for next

   several days. Plants yelping with delight.

George

To: John  Dittola, from Hispaniola ( he, he, he....)      From: George the Jorge......

Re reading your article, Advising in the Trenches,

I note you realize that any new task transforms you,

that you hold influence over others ( your readers)

and your bosses respect and help you (your publishers)

and you have that human touch which will make your

successful as a writer and friend. When I used to take

the girls to restaurants, I could always identify

those waiters or waitresses who were doing their

day jobs to support themselves, while they continued their movie , tv, or stage careers. They were real and

personable, warm and open, not just acting out a

service person script. Being open and real identifies one

even over a horizon......

    George

#31-- Excellente Kemo Sabe Marvelouso (27 Nov 2005)

Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 11:51:58 -0800

From: George Bronax

Subject: Excellente Kemo Sabe Marvelouso

X-Originating-IP: 209.178.175.102

To: John 

Kudos, or as I am saying these days, Kudroids

Good article.

Some suggestion: write it in reverse order, listing actual campus changes because of your special program, i.e. more kids staying in majors and having a sense of direction. Follow this with you life storey, and how you got where you are, as example of 'life counseling' in practic.

Be sure to give a copy to your daughter Rosa for her scrapbook. I only saw anything after the deaths of my parents, nothing from my Mother, and a draft short story by my Dad. My Mother was a fashion plate and left things as did Emelda Marcos, antique furniture, french perfumes, pairs of expensive hose, shoes, furs, clothes, etc. Could explain my issures with women, as I was attracted by their symbols, not them as people, whom I though very manipulative, dorky, untrustworthy, etc. Good job to you and thanks for sharing. You could use this article as basis for a counseling manual to be distributed to every new student: Follow rules, be on time, do everything asked, ask for help if you are confused, sick, late, or need help, immediately.

Klatu Nicktu Barrada

Stillness promotes acceptance of change, hence, learning.

#30- A Writer is one who writes (2009)

The computer had date problems-- approximately 2009

Writer

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Date:  2009

From:  <bronax@verizon.net>

Subject: Writers

To: "John Theofanis" <jtheofanis@austin.rr.com>

A writer is one who writes. Form doesn't matter. Emails count.

Your pecans are great. We collected them as second grader in Moye

Milatary school near San Antonio, Texas where I was interred one

year.    I remember young Kirby, heir to Kirby Vaccuum Machine

Company,    getting sick at lunch with the Nuns and vomiting green

goo all over    the table, from the burritos made from

guacamole........

George

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From:  <bronax@verizon.net>

To: "John Theofanis" <jtheofanis@austin.rr.com>

Subject: Re: George: thanks!-- paper writing

Date: 2009

Goal: answer all emails same day as received.

Try early in the am, or late in the pm. Just takes half an hour.

Good disclipine, and doing so keeps you writing, not the

artifical thing of academic  papers, but the inside stuff

from the braino and heart.

Remember, school papers are just talking about something,

in written words, not spoken words. I suggest you write all

papers as if they were speeches, and read them aloud to

make sure they are punchy and interesting.

George