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Glorious
A glorious day – as we name it: yesterday was like this too. The first few days of June, and England seems to have remembered what it has been told by other countries, in those pubs where they all hang out, that in June it is summer, and in summer it is sunny and warm…
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Clarities
Just a note, not a real exploration… Because there is a lot to do – preparing four Jung-Institut exams (yes, I have gotten my plane ticket and apartment, but also haven't worked out the schedule of classes), marking exams and papers, glancing at lists of other things that require attention so that nothing gets completely…
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Seven years
Three days ago: this blog's seventh anniversary… not of course terribly important; but I'm pleased I've kept going. It has occurred to me that I may need to stop blogging at some point in the future – when I am working as an analyst; I know I already tend to work through thoughts and problems…
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The Invention and Dissemination of the Printing Press, and its Wider Effects on Culture
Astounding, last night, to discover: there are e-books, well-edited, clean and professional, of both the great James McCourt's amazing Mawrdew Czgowchwz and the great Hermann Broch's amazing The Death of Virgil. If these two are available, then… no real barriers remain. Everything is changing, utterly… (I'm not worried about Finnegans Wake – despite a lifelong attachment…
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Renovation
[We started a writing group, Rumana and I and a couple of friends… modeled on Terry Wolverton's approach in the late 80s and early 90s. Two meetings so far; and we're all writing. This poem, blunt though it is, came to me clearly – that sense of making something:…] Nowhere to move, so work…
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Anxiety-confidence-fear-pride-resignation-…
So: a bit too many appointments, too much teaching (though it is not going badly); editing the book; studying for four Jung-Institut exams, with two papers; taking over the HIV group's peer counseling… I have been thrown from worry to a more steely determination, and through everything between, in more and more erratic and rapidly…
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