• Rita on living the changes

    Sunday, March 22, 2015 F: 5:15 a.m. Well, Miss Rita, I sent around your talk with Al, Jon, and Dick, and posted it to my blog and Facebook. That catches us up except for yesterday’s brief exchange, which I will send in turn, if only for its reminder about the source of non-communication when it…

  • Rita — the chick in the egg

    Monday March 23, 2015 F: 6:25 a.m. Good morning, Miss Rita. (Do you experience morning?) Suzanne Gilbertson left this comment on my blog, and Charles liked it enough to jump it to the top of the list. This is one of those that I don’t have any idea about how you are going to answer…

  • Rita on guidance and certainty

    Tuesday, March 24, 2015 F: 2:45 a.m. So, Rita, I am fascinated to see you making sense of things I started to get more than a dozen years ago, but couldn’t bring through coherently. I spoke of crystallizing but could never make it clear and plain because I couldn’t understand it clear and plain. But…

  • Rita on system

    Wednesday, March 25, 2015 F: 4:10 a.m. Rita, it isn’t that I am tired of doing this, but I wonder if maybe we have reached the point you and I got to in 2002 where we ran out of questions to ask. Not, obviously, because we’ve said all there is to say, or learned all…

  • Lincoln Steffens — politics is passe

    I’m not up to doing new work at the moment. Even though I have been a week at my new place, I’m still far from organized, and if I devote two and a half hours to Rita (one receiving, one transcribing and another half sending out), there is too little energy left for other things.…

  • Mr. Lincoln and his battle against hatred

    This entry is not merely historical browsing, and was very much not my own idea. I was led to re-read the speech, and then I was able to ask Mr. Lincoln what he was doing in the speech, and how it applied to us today. In this; I was merely used (happily used!) as an…

  • Bertram on the nature and reality of Jesus

    It has been a while since I wrote this, and a while since I read it. It was interesting to read again, having forgotten it in the meanwhile. What it means will vary by each individual, of course. But here it is, for what it is worth. Bertram was a medieval monk in Norman England…

  • Emerson on religions and temperaments

    When enough time goes by, it is startling to read something that had seemingly come out of your own mind and recognize it for what it is, a communication between two. Monday May 1, 2006 9 a.m. Reading Emerson even in Bliss Perry’s mutilated version – I mean no discourtesy to Mr. Perry – I…

  • Rita on communicating

    Tuesday, March 31, 2015 F: 4 a.m. John Dorsey Wolf poses exactly the kind of question I have been dreading, one where Rita has to know the answer, and I don’t, and can’t surmise it. In other words, the question puts me on the spot and mobilizes and activates all my own doubts about the…

  • Rita on ways to describe reality

    April 1, 2015 F: 6 a.m. Well, Miss Rita, what of the second of John Wolf’s questions? Again, something I don’t know anything about, not having heard Martin’s session with whoever this was. By the way, I find it interesting that old Explorer tapes are being mentioned, in light of [TMI Board member] Al Dahlberg…