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Changes and recoveries
A remarkable analysis session today… after feeling stuck for some weeks, rapid inner change and reflection. I walked away thinking of fun house mirrors – how one inevitably looks at oneself and the world through all kinds of distortions; and the power of analysis is the increasing ability to sense the distortions, to become easily…
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Late; sleepy
As we veer away from the full moon… and the weather returns to the dim gray rainy quality it's had so much for the past weeks. A sense of impending complication, entanglement, or loss; of ventures foundering, of things not going… well, as planned. As though the entire idea of planning things, of trying to…
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An unfinished fairy tale…
[My analyst told me about a brilliant exercise they did at the Jung-Institut in the 1980s – something we should do again, I think: write a fairy tale. I started this one last fall: it aims for some sort of journey or change… I haven't written more on this one; I may put it aside…
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Learning and insight
Another day of reading, study, writing – broken up by lunch with a pleasant guy who is recently diagnosed HIV+, who wanted to talk about what he is going through, plus our normal HIV patient presentation to the medical students. Much study and writing is relatively continuous, work-like… but sometimes it is like a light…
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With all due speed
Today I took the Metro out to Tynemouth with Michael, to have lunch, then see Andrew and Ingrid where they were selling prints at the Tynemouth Metro station. This station has a market every Sunday – with book markets four or five times a year in the summer months. It was only a regular market…
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Light
Is it Vermeer, or perhaps Caravaggio, who is called the best painter of faces glowing from candlelight?… Candles are rarely used at night these days… but as I walk across the darkened apartment on a moonless night, an iPad shines up, showing me the way, illuminating the room. And Montaigne is on the page facing…
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Paul Attinello 