Hi Poet,
Welcome back from your studies.. I'm sorry you got bronchitis, but what do you expect from the "Frost place".
hehe..
I know it was an enlightening and learning experience overall ..But sometime, please tell me the one most important thing you learned or was struck by..What an experience!! I would like to attend something like that sometime.. I have a lot of rough edges to knock off though..
Yes, "summer is a cruel time", "the best of times, the worst of times", as that little Dickens said.. I approach summer with trepidation as you know, with my highest highs, and lowest lows, registered during that time...
I had a high on Saturday, I ran the "Squaw Valley Mountain Run up 2000 vertical feet over 3.6 miles.. culminating with a joint high by all .. Drinking in the view along with water, fruits and of course, a few Pale Ales.... and all for a good cause.... and BTW.. being narcissistic, I ran it in a good time..
What you posted from the NYT, I found so interesting and so true..
"Boomers have to exhaust all varieties of narcissistic experience, and having
run through self-adoration and self-love and all the other self- somethings,
now they have to do self- loathing," he said. "They have just begun to tap
into it."
Yes I do think the final stage is self-examination, which should lead to SOME DEGREE of self loathing .. Nobody is perfect, so there should be at least some in all of us.... We are, so many times lazy, self-indulgent, self-important and expect everything.. I see it in 3-D and here on S-I.. But that is evolutionary.. A person looks at, or should look at the mistakes around and then run a comparison survey with themselves.. and have a look at the plot.
And again, I'm glad you are back,
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