Comments on: Cutting and Running http://www.oleoptene.com/2006/12/17/cutting-and-running/ A blog for Mara Collins Sun, 20 Nov 2011 04:12:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: unreliable narrator http://www.oleoptene.com/2006/12/17/cutting-and-running/comment-page-1/#comment-8 unreliable narrator Fri, 29 Jun 2007 07:01:36 +0000 http://www.oleoptene.com/?p=61#comment-8 I have this recurring nightmare where I don't follow my instinct, I don't lock the door or call the police or whatever, and the rapist/murderer/Republican slips inside the house/car/building and I think dully, Well, I guess that's the last time I get to make *that* mistake, cos now I'm gonna be toast. Then I usually get so scared I wake up. --If the whole of the spiritual life is good friends, then aren't they our equivalent of the Study Group? I'd rather have friends like you (however electronically mediated) than Condi and Wolfowitz any day. (And your Baha'i sounds curiously kinda like the Brujo's gnostic AA.) As far as how long do you let the violin madness go on...part of the miracle of music-making is its alchemy. Even if she's the world's worst teacher, which she isn't, it somehow magically works out okay--or so I believe. But I just realized I *am* responding to a six-month old post, so I will hush now. I have this recurring nightmare where I don’t follow my instinct, I don’t lock the door or call the police or whatever, and the rapist/murderer/Republican slips inside the house/car/building and I think dully, Well, I guess that’s the last time I get to make *that* mistake, cos now I’m gonna be toast. Then I usually get so scared I wake up. –If the whole of the spiritual life is good friends, then aren’t they our equivalent of the Study Group? I’d rather have friends like you (however electronically mediated) than Condi and Wolfowitz any day. (And your Baha’i sounds curiously kinda like the Brujo’s gnostic AA.) As far as how long do you let the violin madness go on…part of the miracle of music-making is its alchemy. Even if she’s the world’s worst teacher, which she isn’t, it somehow magically works out okay–or so I believe. But I just realized I *am* responding to a six-month old post, so I will hush now.

]]> By: Mark G. http://www.oleoptene.com/2006/12/17/cutting-and-running/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Mark G. Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:33:13 +0000 http://www.oleoptene.com/?p=61#comment-9 Here's the blog, by the way, that I reference: http://bahai-epistolary.blogspot.com/ "The Duke of URL" Here’s the blog, by the way, that I reference:

http://bahai-epistolary.blogspot.com/

“The Duke of URL”

]]> By: Mark G. http://www.oleoptene.com/2006/12/17/cutting-and-running/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Mark G. Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:32:30 +0000 http://www.oleoptene.com/?p=61#comment-10 Hi Mara, I definitely concur that just this sort of conundrum is right at the heart of why life on earth is such a tough yoga. Moi has recently been diagnosed with Diabetes Type II and so I am trying to find my way through a thicket of contradictory advice. I don't say progress cannot be made, but, sheesh, it's hard to sort it all out. As for the murkiness of struggling toward the light, I've found Velsaco's Baha'i blog to be very stimulating in this regard. His post about intimacy in the Baha'i community almost makes it feel heroic, this business of muddling through. All the best, Mark Hi Mara,

I definitely concur that just this sort of conundrum is right at the heart of why life on earth is such a tough yoga. Moi has recently been diagnosed with Diabetes Type II and so I am trying to find my way through a thicket of contradictory advice. I don’t say progress cannot be made, but, sheesh, it’s hard to sort it all out. As for the murkiness of struggling toward the light, I’ve found Velsaco’s Baha’i blog to be very stimulating in this regard. His post about intimacy in the Baha’i community almost makes it feel heroic, this business of muddling through.

All the best,
Mark

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