May. 10th, 2007

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Hey.

A neighbor and family friend died Wednesday morning. At dinnertime we hosted his daughter so she wouldn't have to cook or be alone. The deceased's gravesite service will be Friday.

My Dad was taking good care of the man ever since he'd had a stroke the same day I left for GenCon last year. (The neighbor died from complications of another stroke suffered over the weekend.) Not having the guy to kick Dad around is going to be rough on him.

FP
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"We were expelled from Paradise," wrote Franz Kafka in The Blue Octavo Notebooks, "but Paradise was not destroyed. In a sense our expulsion from Paradise was a stroke of luck, for had we not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed." Do those ruminations strike a chord in you, Sagittarius? I hope they move you to turn your thoughts towards your own personal version of paradise-on-earth. Consider the possibility that it was important for you to have been exiled from that land of bounty once upon a time. Meditate on what you'll need to do to prepare yourself to return to it when it becomes accessible again in the future.

In my fictitious version of events in the Hackett Continuum, there was a scene in which I'm approached by a Malcolm McDowell-esque character in a limo. He, who knows much more about me than I would be comfortable with anybody (including myself) knowing, says:

"You've had a love-hate relationship with everywhere you've ever been. Your environments have always been physically toxic, economically toxic, or sociologically toxic. This place you're in now feels like another defeat, doesn't it? What if I pointed you to your true ecology? Your true victory? How quickly would you be ready to run and fight?"

FP

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