Dear Rita Mae Brown,
My enlightened, editor
friend emailed me corrections. Guess it’s time to give her a name, since she’s
already linked your letters to her blog www.jennyredbug.com
she must be okay with revealing she is friends
with this letter writer. I will call her JR, because that is so much easier
than Jennifer Silva Redmond and so much shorter than “my enlightened, editor
friend”, but I digress.
JR found a “where” that
should have been a “wear”, a “right” that should have been a “write” (gasp) and
multiple semi-colons, apostrophes, hyphens, dashes and commas running amuck
like a gaggle of toddlers let loose to play, sorely needing to be herded for
lunch, or in this case…posting on the blog.
I am grateful that such
blunders were caught. However, many have already been mailed to you. Please
accept my apologies for such negligence. I am positive that, in your life,
complete with running a farm, the Oak Ridge Fox Hunt Club, writing books,
promoting them and caring for the multitude of animal life surrounding you,
among everything else that occupies your time, that each stray comma in these
RMB letters carries a significant impact upon you…thus my sincere apologies.
Well, in all seriousness, if
you were shaking your head as you noticed such things, believe me I was shaking
my head as I went through and corrected them. Worst of all, I know there are
more. I know the silliest of errors hide with expert finesse and only appear at
the least favorable moment during a written work’s history.
By the way, JR is the one
making a movie. She and her screenwriter husband Russell Redmond were moved to write
about a woman that lived in San Diego.
I’ve asked her to share the details with me so I can relay them in the RMB
letters. The woman’s story relates to what I discuss here, what is fair, what
is right, how we -- both individually and as a nation -- seek to find a better
way, and the often times tragic outcome of doing what we think best. More later
on her story. The El Camino Real trailer can be seen at http://vimeo.com/69492492.
Good night Rita Mae Brown,
Loraine
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