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December 31, 2020: Dinner is now at 6 PM. 9:30 is the new midnight. Your social life (online) starts at 10 PM. Better must come
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Published: Dec 31, 2020
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Dinner is now at 6 PM. 9:30 is the new midnight. Your social life (online) starts at 10 PM.
Is this you? It’s certainly me. With some additional changes that may apply to only a few of you. Like: the weather sucks, and I didn’t go outside for two days. Like: All I do is work, because I’m not going to sit on a couch and binge third-rate Netflix. Like: I have a new appreciation for the phrase “solitary confinement.”
The immediate future suggests more-of-same. I don’t deny it, but I don’t dwell. I’ll take the vaccine, mask, skip outdoor dining, nap, read, walk, finish my book and work with others on theirs, and when I blink, it will be Spring. I raise a virtual glass to your year ahead and our continuing dialogue.
To support that future, I’ve added yet another supplement. I was given a precious jar of elderberry syrup over the holidays. And the recipe. Fresh elderberries are impossible to find, so…
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BEST END OF YEAR WISDOM
Charles Pierce, in Esquire
God, I am tired of the transactional. I am exhausted by it. The cynicism and obviousness of it have drained me. The lack of creativity and the dearth of imagination have enervated me, body and mind and soul. I hunger for something that exists only for its own sake, something that cannot be coined or bartered. I am sick unto death of calculating the cost of every small action and every minor event — who’s up and who’s down, how will it play in Congress, or in Iowa, or on the cable news programs that evening. I am tired of living in an emotional counting house.
Not every human interaction has to be a deal. Not every human emotion is an instrument of exchange. Whatever art there is in The Deal is crude and obvious, without nuance or subtlety. The art comes in the space between two human beings because they are human beings, equal in the eyes of Whoever and under the law. Power and influence are cheap materials. Humanity, stumbling and flawed, is the indelible medium through which the true art of living is rendered.
THE BEST PIECE EVER ABOUT JOHN LE CARRÉ
One day, the phone rang on my desk in the Herald city room. If you’ve seen the movies “The Mean Season” or “Absence of Malice” you’ve seen that newsroom, which has since been torn down.
“Jeff?” The voice was British, upper crust. “This is David Cornwell. Do you know who I am?”
[To read the piece, click here. For my “what to read” suggestions, click here.]
JULIAN SCHNABEL’S FILM, “AT ETERNITY’S GATE”
I watched it again over the holidays. It was even better and more thought-provoking now. Julian Schnabel,the celebrated painter, is also a gifted director. This is his best film, largely because it’s his most personal — the first half explores what art means, the second asks what it means in the world. You may think these are not concerns of interest to you, but as you watch Willem Dafoe, you can’t help yourself: in a way only you may understand, these are your issues too. [For more, and to rent the streaming video from Amazon, click here.]
JERRY JAMPOLSKY (1925 – 2020)
When Jerry died this week, his life’s work was complete, and then some. Paige Peterson, who introduced us, has written a capsule biography: “Jerry’s life story reads like the ultimate self-help book. The boy who was a shy underachiever with a learning disability (dyslexia) grew up to be a world-renowned, Stanford-educated psychiatrist who created a groundbreaking therapy for children who had life-threatening illnesses. When he expanded his center for Attitudinal Healing to parents and siblings, his model went global. Morley Safer of “60 Minutes” came to visit. Mother Teresa applied his principles to her teachings. He gave Oprah an ‘Aha’ moment when he said on her show, ‘If we want to hold on to grievances, we will never really be happy. It really means letting go of the past that we thought we wanted.’ His twenty books have sold more than ten million copies. 139 Attitudinal Healing Centers have been established in 35 countries. His story is one of persistence, destiny and spiritual exploration.”
My personal experience of Jerry never varied. When he was in town and Paige invited me over, I said, “Free therapy!” But he gave so much more than that.
The book to read is his mega-bestseller, “Love Is Letting Go of Fear.” [To buy the paperback, click here. For the Kindle, click here.]
