From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V3 #385 Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk shindell-list-digest Sunday, October 28 2001 Volume 03 : Number 385 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Re: for Vanessa [Tom926@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 04:53:03 EST From: Tom926@aol.com Subject: [RS] Re: for Vanessa Well God love you honey. One of my best friends is a therapist. Got her masters in existential and phenomenological psychology. Not a typical degree. I still remember her calling me up in the middle of the night, sobbing, asking me, "I am not really stupid, am I?" It turned out she had been reading and rereading the same page of Heiddegger for hours and couldn't make sense of any of it. I told her she needed more sleep and to go to the library and get a book ABOUT Herr H and read that instead. Which she landed up doing--as well as reading the original. Me? I would rather read Karen Horney or Kierkegaard instead. Or Jackie Susann. But I was always the black and pink striped sheep of the family. By the way, I agree with you in principle about the new song lyrics. I write poetry and have heard/read, no exaggeration, about 300 poems about the WTC since 9/11. Only 4 have caught my eye. This sounded like most of them. I mean, they are lovely sentiments, but I don't find the song lyrics particularly insightful or emotionally compelling. The lyrics actually reminded me of Mary Chapin Carpenter's "I Am a Town." It may be that we need more distance to get perspective on those events. And it may be that I need to hear the melody and music for the lyrics to have a real impact. I will keep an open mind about it. Tom ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V3 #385 ***********************************