Conversations June 15, 2010

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

5:30 AM. Okay. Ready to go. But I don’t know the topic du jour.

One of your friends challenged you to ask us why the attitude we suggested in re the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico didn’t amount to letting people get away with anything and everything.

Yes. That isn’t quite what she said, I think, but it was late for me and I just scanned the message, intending to read it more carefully today. I could go read it, I suppose.

Go ahead, if you wish. The day is young, your coffee is un-drunk and your vision is blurry anyway!

I expected you to say, “oh, don’t bother, we got it the first time.”

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Conversations June 11, 2010

Friday, June 11, 2010

5 AM. Last night, yielding to an impulse that yet wasn’t entirely an impulse, I watched the first half of “Schindler’s List.” I had bought the video sometime ago, secondhand, for a few dollars, but hadn’t ever watched it. (I’d seen the film years ago when it came out.) For the past few weeks whenever I looked for something to watch, I’ve considered it but decided against it. I’ve had it out, but still not played it, till last night I watched the first cassette of two. Why? Well, my friends, you tell me, but I suppose it has to do with person-groups and social-groups. (Had to page back to find the word social-group.) I suppose we ought to call you spirit-groups.

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