Posts in Chronological Order

Sunday, January 30, 2022 3 a.m. I find myself suddenly awake, and having been thinking of the story told in “Five Came Back.” Is it that you’d like to discuss it, or something arising from it? Or is it just that I slept a lot yesterday and don’t need any more at the moment? Yet…

Monday, January 31, 2022 3:05 a.m. I feel like yesterday’s was only part one of something. Of all the things I listed, you addressed the issue of life talking only of the film directors and, really, centering on It’s a Wonderful Life as a parable. So if you wish to discuss the other items –…

Tuesday, February 1, 2022 6:15 a.m. I feel like we still haven’t quite gotten to what you have been driving at, the past couple of days. If that’s so, would you care to continue? Switches. Focus. Receptivity. Clarity. Presence. Thanks for the reminder. As usual, we are aiming at two birds at the same time:…

Wednesday, February 2, 2022 5 a.m. A lot of 2s in today’s date. I still have the feeling you aren’t finished with whatever the underlying topic is. Perhaps not. It is difficult to find a way to address it. The underlying topic, as you put it – the theme – is emotionally sharp but conceptually…

Thursday, February 3, 2022 4:10 a.m. It has perhaps been working as I suspected you thought it might. The intellectual response came in the daytime, the emotional response during the night. Perhaps others have had the ame experience. The difficulty is to remember what went through my mind in those hours. I set my switches,…

Saturday, February 5, 2022 6:20 a.m. Seems to me that Thursday’s homily on choosing proved itself pretty quickly, at least judging from yesterday’s organizing session. Of course, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, but still, a good start. So what’s in the magic cupboard for today? Switches? Yes, I’d forgotten. Thanks. So…

Sunday, February 6, 2022 7:30 a.m. Yesterday’s sessions led me to re-read A Place to Stand, and I found it very convenient to have the ten sessions in printed form. If the ten sessions in 2004 were printed up in the same way, I might re-read them. As it is, I don’t have much idea…

Monday, February 7, 2022 6:25 a.m. Many things stirring together. Spanish-language documentaries, one on survivors of the Franco era, seeking any kind of justice from the law, the other the survivors of Columbia’s 60-year civil war, trying to knit the country back together. As the photographer/narrator says, he can no longer tell who was Cain…

Tuesday, February 8, 2022 6:20 a.m. I have no idea what we should talk about today. No idea of mine, no sense of yours. But I will set my switches, and we’ll see. The process of setting your switches to remember those priorities would in itself be valuable even if nothing more flowed from it.…

Wednesday, February 9, 2022 7:10 a.m. No time for a session, maybe. I am to go next door at 8 a.m. so we can bring the kitty condo here before they go off to Pantops for a Covid test prior to their trip, and I go off to see Dr. Long at 10. And I…