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BERLIN
Because Berlin is, of course, BIG. And this trip, that impression is very strong. Big streets, big spaces between them – all as they were when I was a student here in 1994-5, and on one or two visits since then. As I tell my students when they plan to come here on an exchange…
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Bruchstücke
I am slightly less disoriented/anxious than I have been for three weeks. Slightly, I say; at least enough to have some sense of distance from it all; and a bigger sense of time, as though I can perhaps imagine different ways that the fear and confusion of the past days can fit into larger parts…
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Deliberate crises
Lately there is a strange sense of a kind of semi-ordered chaos: as I am by turns angry and disoriented, or surprisingly pleased, or overwhelmed, or insulting, or reasonable, it seems as though I have been pushed (or: as though I have pushed myself?) into this psychological place. The physical/real-world explanations are obvious: months of…
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Blinds
For the most part, I have been sharply productive and energetic about preparing for my next bout with HCV medications, combined with the new school year. Robust, definite, in charge. But an argument tonight about adding yet more things to do to my week has somehow flung me into memories from the first time I…
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Air
Something remarkable about today's air: cool, damp, sharp – an almost Scandinavian feel to it. Although northern England is close to the latitudes of Denmark and southern Sweden, we don't often get quite that kind of air – it reminds me of that sense of clarity one gets in Copenhagen some days, where everything seems…
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Formal analysis of current status of complex
(As musicians, we are accustomed to formal analyses that don't emphasize the contents/material of what is analyzed. Herein a therefore relatively abstract reiteration of some of my understanding of the past 24 hours.) Recently understood aspects of complex formation suggest modification of my own emotional self-analysis: (1) von Franz clarifies the basic structure of complexes…
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