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To: Rambi who wrote (69917)	1/19/2009 12:31:48 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Oh that is bad news. I have mislaid myself again and I have a HUGE list of chores and I an just too darn BUSY to think about travel. Sometimes, I feel as if I were simply beside myself! But when I look, I see it wasn't that easy. Now where in all this MESS ... Thank GOODNESS it doesn't interfere with my Gdo-given place as a housewife. That is selfless work, and I am just SO relieved. But in two days my therapist will ask me what is happening inside myself, and I WON't know what to SAY! Maybe I should spend the morning at the New You Salon. It's frightfully pricey, and Leonard will be unhappy with me for WEEKS, but what ELSE is a decent lady to DO??? I do have the Laundry Pocket Leftovers jar, and there's $22.46 in there. I wonder if that'll get me a permanent and a facial. Mamma always said that a fresh look can solve all a girl's troubles. I miss Mamma right now so MUCH! (thinking about that list that you showed us not so long ago about how a proper '60s wifey comports herself. WWooww.)

To: Rambi who wrote (69917)	1/19/2009 12:46:26 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I have always thought that was the most important journey anyone can take i.e. develop a personal philosophy of life. It doesn't matter what one comes up with, as long as they make the journey, IMO. But it is a dangerous journey. As Sommerset Maughm characterized: "The path to wisdom is steep and narror and dangerous as the razors edge". He of course, is talking about the resistance by so many to new ideas and the price one pays for having different ideas of life e.g. Plato's The Allegory of the Cave" and Thomas Mann's "Tonio Kroger" which I think is an auto biography of sorts. When we were discussing what exactly is self actualization, or the ability to understand say Zen or existentialism, the closest I can come to explaining them is what Taleb discusses in his book The Black Swan". I.e. we humans are hardwired to think in specifics. But we need to learn to think in generalities, to see the world in its relativistic unreality, is sort of where the path leads. What makes it such a hard path for many to follow, is that it takes a long time, there is no instant gratification, one does not know where they are going, or what they will see, and any wisdom they find is compunded by more questions, and also more humility in the face of the unknowable. Happy New Year Rambi. >> "Sometime in your life you will go on a journey. It will be the longest journey you have ever taken. It is the journey to find yourself." Katherine Sharpe<<