Wednesday, November 20, 2002

What Did I Learn Yesterday? I learned that my step-father's mother's name was Susan. I learned that a funeral (or "homegoing service") can be very joyous indeed. I learned that Pastor James B. Walker is a skilled practitioner of an art that has fallen out of secular use: complex, closely reasoned, and insightful speaking that is emotionally transporting and soothing. I learned that Luke 17:3 - 4 on forgiveness can be very profitably understood in terms of Proust's model of the interplay of memory and habit. I learned that "everything's fine" can mean "your application is complete," rather than "your application is approved." I learned that my mother understands nurturing in almost entirely negative terms, whereby it "doesn't seem to happen all that often if one expects the nurturer to be a human," yet it "can be deadly in a suffocating way." I learned that I just have to "let it go." I learned that if you mention the suicidal images in moments of high stress to your psycho-pharmacologist, she will be pretty skeptical about lowering your dosage later, once the period of stress has passed. I learned that you can go home again, as long as you go to the right place. 8:30:16 AM     What do you think? ()

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