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| 10:28 a.m. Sunday, September 23, 2001 one of these things is not like the others... made a run to the grocery store last week to pick up a few things. when i got to the checkout, i looked down in the basket and laughed. orange juice, muffins, frozen dinner, pasta sauce, spinach nuggets... and Krazy Glue. odd juxtapositioning. 10:26 a.m. Sunday, September 23, 2001 my life, in captions i've noticed recently that my writing habits are spilling over into day to day life, away from the pen and keyboard. all my entries, here and in the journal, are titled one way or another. and i find myself sitting on the T, talking to friends, running errands, and inventing captions for whatever is happening. 11:05 a.m. Friday, September 21, 2001 peering in Krishna's mouth Killing the Buddha has been a fave read of mine for some time. while i may not always agree with the writers, there's always tasty food for thought there. they recently posted an essay on their front page about the tragedies last week, as they too struggled to find a way to understand. i'd suggest checking it out. here's a snippet. It is crass to make a metaphor of suffering. But, then, in a way, it feels crass to survive. To make a story of loss, to suggest we have anything at all to learn from the facts of September 11, 2001, is to alter the reality of the dead to suit the needs of living. Yet take another look at your crucifix, listen to the stories of the Patriarchs, open your Quran at random -- that's what religion does. That's what we do. We search for a whole whenever we find a hole in our lives. when the Taliban was getting so much coverage a few months ago for destroying statues, KtB had some very insightful articles. i'm looking forward to reading the next few issues. 11:30 p.m. Thursday, September 20, 2001 The View from Nebo i started reading this book by Amy Dockser Marcus some time ago. it's about Middle Eastern archeology, and how the current research is reshaping how we see the Bible, and vice versa. a few days ago, i ran across this paragraph, which resonated for me because it fits even today. In both instances [the Ottoman period and roughly 1000 B.C.E.] the leaders had tried to expand their preexisting tribal bases and gain support from better-off urban leaders by securing an important central city, Hebron and then Jerusalem in the case of David and Solomon, Tiberias and Akko in the case of Dahir. They had established their leadership credentials through battle, with the enemy who at the time represented the greatest threat to their people. They set up a military corps that was always ready for battle. And most crucially, they recognized the need for a traditional shrine, a shared religious center. They had used religion as a unifying factor against perceived outside enemies. Operating under similar economic, ecological, and political constraints, these leaders had dome similar things. in some ways, i see echoes of this in the current situations over there. i know, i'm far oversimplifying things. but it rang true when i read it. and since i don't know nearly enough to understand how close the comparison is, i borrowed A History of the Arab Peoples from a friend. a little light reading, perhaps? ;) i joke, but it does seem like an important thing to read. we don't cover a lot of non-American history in schools, and i want to understand more. 11:27 p.m. Thursday, September 20, 2001 MRI all clear so i got the results back on the MRI. since they were willing to give me the results by phone, i figured they were good. and mostly yes. there are some abnormalities, but since we all deviate from the norm to some degree, that isn't really worrisome. best part is knowing that Bad Stuff, like cancer, can be ruled out. my neurologist thinks this is residual damage from the assault last year. i need to mull that over for a bit and see if i want to do anything about it. civil actions have a two year window, so i could conceivably take this all back to court. i'm not sure yet if i want to or not. i'm leaning towards not. we'll see. |
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