| Kurt Vonnegut
27 March 10
I've been reading what Kurt Vonnegut had to stay about drama - that people like stories about huge events, and inspirational endings, whereas life is about tiny dramas, and not so obvious inspiration.
He gives the example of Cinderella as one of the favourite story lines because its so dramatic.
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| feeling
24 March 10
The kind of theology I grew up with, there was a right and a wrong to everything. You constantly measured your behaviour to assess whether it was sinful or virtuous. And if sinful, what level of sin it was, venial or mortal, and you had to confess it to... |
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| stories
21 March 10
I think that we tell ourselves stories - we establish a narrative about life and where we fit into it. We shape the story around our earliest experiences - it's like a pillar that we erect, or a trellis. Then our subsequent experiences grow up and around the pillar, shaped... |
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| Death
18 March 10
Last night I watched a BBC program about dying. I've been watching the whole series, and I really like the presenter, Robert Winston. He interviewed people who've had near death experiences, and also fighter pilots who've been through centrifuges to test their G force levels, until they pass out.
Winston... |
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| savage
17 March 10
I would love to be witty and inspirational, but I can't. I'm savage. A black bitter cloud is lurking in my head and heart, and I'm going to sulk until its all sulked up, with my special Verimark black cloud sulk sponge. Then I'm going to squeeze it out somewhere,... |
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| animation
15 March 10
I am having so much fun, learning how to do animation. Photoshop intimidates me because I don't know what any of the icons mean, and it's good to be getting a grip on it, one icon at a time.
Otherwise, I'm not having much fun at all. The builders are still... |
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| Basics
11 March 10
I still feel as though I'm sweating blood at therapy. It's been eight years, and I've searched for and sorted through and sifted - tried to categorize the library of experiences and feelings. All that was easy compared to this.
Now I lie facing away from him, I can't see... |
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| Making sense of it
06 March 10
I think that another factor in Luke's personality change when he was ill was that his head was poisoned with chemo, and then with morphine.
He was always a bit fragile in terms of mental health, because of his anxiety disorder and depression. So much so that he was advised... |
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| Playing duets
04 March 10
When Luke was dying I blogged about how marriage is like playing a piano duet, and how glad I was that we had a chance to finish off our duet together, ending gently, together, at the same time. Leaving me to close the piano lid.
Since then I've been thinking about... |
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