colector: [JournalWriting] Re: File - Check in....Roll Call

I didn't know Fulgrum had a website. I really enjoy his writing so
I'll have to check that one out. You mentioned that you have shared
many letters with a friend who isn't in good health...if I
understood that correctly??? One of my favorite movies is "Tuesdays
with Morrie" because of the wonderful philosophies and insights
about dying presented in the script. Even if somebody is just
having health problems, severe or otherwise, I think the movie would
still be meaningful.

--- In JournalWriting@yahoogroups.com, Christina
<westernslopeacupuncture@...> wrote:
>
> --- JournalWriting@yahoogroups.com wrote:
>
> > > thus the check in.
>
> I'm here. <waving hand!>
>
> > How is your writing?
>
> I actually did two journal entries this week! That
> may not sound like much to some of you, but for me
> that's fantastic! I also wrote a friend who is very
> ill and far away. She's often too ill to write me
> additionally, she has uncertain, old and slow internet
> access, so it's difficult to write to her because I
> don't know where she's "at" on any level, but I want
> her to know I am keeping her in mind/heart. Perhaps
> we could call that another journal entry because I am
> basically talking to myself, until I hear from her.
>
> Speaking of printing emails and list posts (as journal
> entries as a different automated reminder to this list
> does...) my conversations with my friend, I will call
> her "K", which are hundreds of pages now, have been
> the most insightful writing of my life. K and I have
> been communicating for a few years during her health
> downturn. She and I are interested in the same kinds
> of alternative healing modalities and the deep
> philosophies of them, as well as similar spiritual
> paths. I have saved all our correspondence and have
> reread it more than once. I am always surprised at
> the depth of our communication.
>
> > Read any books you could recommend.
>
> Listened to the 15th anniversary edition of All I Need
> To Know I Learned In Kindergarten, but Robert Fulghum.
> I liked it. I like the original (book form, didn't
> have the audio). He's kind of like Prozac for me,
> without the side effects. Whenever I feel down, or
> hopeless, I read Fulghum. He's got a blog now. Some
> entries as good as his book essays, not all, but
> come'on it's a blog.
>
> Also listened to The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You
> Cry. It was very entertaining. Would highly
> recommend it for a road trip. For a road-trip you
> need something that's entertaining but not too deep.
> IMHO, if it's too deep you miss a lot, if you get too
> into it, you endanger yourself and your fellows.
>
> Listened to Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on
> Mortality, by Chen. I wasn't very happy with it. I
> found myself talking back to her a LOT. She read it
> herself which is sometimes a mistake, depends on the
> author's ability to perform as a reader. That was
> not the problem in this case. I found myself
> incredulous at her ignorance and the length of time
> she took to begin to come out of it. OTOH, perhaps
> she's bowing to the culture of Surgery in Western
> Orthodox Medicine and not saying what she really
> thinks and when she thought it. If so what use is
> this book? If not---WOW---it took this presumably
> otherwise critically thinking, super-educated woman an
> almost unbelievably long time to awaken to the problem
> that what passes for "care" in Orthodox Medicine is
> truly, deeply flawed at the very least. And that,
> IMHO again, the seat of it is really fear, leading to
> inflated egotism and blind raging, uncontrolled
> arrogance. I cannot say I don't recommend this for
> others, especially those who are not versed in the
> problems of philosophy in Allopathic a/k/a Standard
> Orthodox Western Medicine, but for me it simply made
> me sad.
>
> Read an advance copy of Passion on the Vine by
> Espisito. It was good, not great, but worth the time
> spent reading it if one needs a little bit of
> entertainment. A memoir of the author's life from
> birth in a rough suburb of Naples through emigration
> to Buffalo, NY, and on to become a wine educator and
> marketer. It was entertaining especially if you are a
> foodie as I am. However, if you like the idea of a
> story about Italian wines and want a better one than
> this one, I recommend: A Vineyard in Tuscany: A Wine
> Lover's Dream by Ferenc Mate. And the interview with
> the author at
> http://www.metrofarm.com/mf_Food_Chain_Radio.php, Show
> #568: A VINEYARD IN TUSCANY - 09-12-2007 (you will
> have to scroll down the available program podcasts to
> click on the appropriate link)
>
> > Tried any new writing methods? Yeah. This! Seems
> to be working ;-)
>
> C
>
> > > Step up for roll call.........who's present?
>
> > > Dorene> JournalWriting Co-owner>
>
>
>
>
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