tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857504271006815554.post5746570200705946625..comments2023-10-17T05:35:27.500-07:00Comments on Living Above the Frost Line: THE NUMBER ONE BEST APPALACHIAN CULTURE BLOG is The Blind Pig and the AcornNancy Simpsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06468975663711270696noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857504271006815554.post-13254267289321504742011-02-24T03:10:55.905-08:002011-02-24T03:10:55.905-08:00great blog If you are the type to update your blog...great blog If you are the type to update your blog regulary, then you have gained one daily reader in me today. keep up the super work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857504271006815554.post-6049557204191422812009-07-20T08:47:05.561-07:002009-07-20T08:47:05.561-07:00Thanks for jumping into the conversation, Joan. I ...Thanks for jumping into the conversation, Joan. I hope you will let us hear from you more often. I believe Tipper will read your note because she is one of my faithful readers, like Sam, Brenda Kay and some others. Anytime someone, especially a writer, logs onto my site and reads and then leaves a message, I am full of appreciation. <br /><br />I see what you are saying, but I must also say, Tipper's Blind Pig and the Acorn hits a cord with me every time. Every time. I do have the heart, brain and soul of an Appalachian although I was not born here. I had never thought of it, but it seems true, all things Appalachian are drenched in a measure of sadness and longing. And, that is me, and that is why I choose her site as THE BEST. I read it every day.<br /><br />I've lived with the people for forty years now, taught their children and adults. I've been in some homes. I've seen demonstrations of their joy, their<br />music and dancing. Tipper herself is a folk dancer.<br />Music fills her home, I know. So I know that she knows and practices joy. <br /><br />You make a good point, but all I can conclude is that the sadness and longing for the past you experience on her site is what it is, an Appalachian characteristic.Nancy Simpsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06468975663711270696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857504271006815554.post-70558106974900935442009-07-20T08:06:26.313-07:002009-07-20T08:06:26.313-07:00Tipper, I don't visit often, but find your blo...Tipper, I don't visit often, but find your blog enticing every time I do. One thing, though, by way of what isn't exactly a disagreement so much as a suggestion that perhaps from time to time you might want to emphasize a different syllable. As part of my explanation, I need to say that I'm over 80, and thus am forced into a position with a different perspective from yours. I desperately need (recently widowed as I am) not to look only to the past. Mine has been blessed. If I can't take conscious pleasure in the here and now, though, I will be hourly overcome by what I've begun to think of as the Tyranny of Tears. So while you enjoy the natural beauties around you, look for the cultural and hopeful ones too.<br />Best wishes--JLChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14417274472131471333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857504271006815554.post-5853667825592947002009-07-20T03:32:53.641-07:002009-07-20T03:32:53.641-07:00Congratulations Tipper. The award is well deserved...Congratulations Tipper. The award is well deserved. Tipper's blog is terrific and she makes blackberry jelly just like my Mama did.<br />SamSam Hoffer / My Carolina Kitchenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15358601435867848753noreply@blogger.com