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Hard Learning: A Diary
May 1. My vanity was injured because my self-revelation, my skilled dissection of my outsize half of the relationship, didn’t beguile him.
February 1984Sunbeams
October 1983A human being is a part of the whole called by us “universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
The Funeral
He remembered feeling sick with fear. She had been breathing with difficulty, the air making a rasping sound in her throat. She sounded different — almost impolite. Sounds that used to mean Nana were the floating notes of her harpsichord, the soft rustle of the pages she turned in story books, songs half hummed half whispered, and the small clicking of her knitting needles.
May 1982Song For Itzhak
During his 25 years in the United States, Itzhak became a legend in the field of bio-medical invention. His hallmark was producing new methods and tools that were ridiculously simple when completed, and nearly impossible to believe in before undertaken.
October 1981Death Of A Loved One
Giving the eulogy, being followed by a chicken, losing a child
May 1981
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