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An optimist must know what a sad place the world can be.
If you’re afraid to mention or hear about death, dying, or the dead, don’t talk to me about hope. If you’re afraid to mention, to hear about, much less to face violence, pain, and suffering, don’t talk to me about hope. If you’re afraid to grieve, to sob, to cry out, don’t talk to me…
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They have cast off restraint in my presence. Job 30:11
In the period just before she entered hospice, I heard Laura ask visitors if they’d heard about the “three kiss-offs” she’d received from her doctors. An earlier post describes the meetings when her surgeon, radiation oncologist, and oncologist told her that there was nothing more they could do for her,. As I’ve said about many of Laura’s statements, I could be really…
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The pain of others
In her book Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag questions whether we really feel the pain of the people we see in photographs of violence, particularly if we can’t do anything for them. In fact, she would only let people who can lessen the horror look at such pictures. “The rest of us are voyeurs, whether or not we mean to…
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Four noble truths, eightfold path
One last methodological note before proceeding to the pain of aphasia. Actually, this will be a correction to my failure in a previous post to explain my reference to the Second Noble Truth. The many varieties of Buddhism share the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path, if nothing else. Maurice Walshe gives a typical statement of the Four Noble Truths in…
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Posts are found under each category in bold. If you click on the title listed here, the link will take you to that post. Introduction to the themes of these posts Reading and Scribbling. Unfinished houses Reading and scribbling: the story Nouns and verbs Detritus in the road Aristotle gave Herclitus a bum rap Stupid To…