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NYC – WDC – NYC
A trip to the US: going through New York to get to northern Virginia, for my mother's memorial service; and back to New York for four busy days. From the beginning, the sheer ease of things was startling: the flight to New York, the early landing, an almost unbelievably efficient and relaxed JFK – I almost…
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Database
Finally getting organized to go to New York and Washington next week, for my mother's memorial service at Arlington Cemetary; and staying with my sister in New York, plus catching up with a few old friends. I went through my old addresses database – now increasingly supplanted by the data shared between my phone and…
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Moon
On this night after the full moon… I didn't do much that was useful today; papers and needed actions were before me on the table, but I hardly touched them. Instead I read vaguely, drifted past screens… glowing electronic screens of course, not the rice paper screens of Heian-kyo, but the effect is not dissimilar.…
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Seminars
Liz asked me to blog about what I actually did in Zürich (i.e., studied and heard), rather than about the peripheral experiences (admittedly the latter often make better stories – dinners with the Italians, bars and friends, day outings). Lots of seminars, some informational, some more investigative. A few workshops – these often have a…
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Last night in Zürich
After a month in Zürich, lectures and seminars and parties at the Jung-Institut, sharply cold weather shifting to rather warm weather (for which I have proven unprepared, still stalking around in my grand black coat and sweaters), I'm – packing, somewhat fussily and ineptly (isn't this supposed to be vastly easier on the way home,…
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Frames and muddles
The Jung-Institut, winter semester, third week. A week until I go home… and that tangle that I often reach at this stage of the course, of irritation alternating with clarity. Some lectures and workshops, and discussions and encounters and insights, are framed in vivid outline, or imbued with the aha! of treasured recognition. Others are…
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Paul Attinello 