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Sunday ramblings...
Jul. 25th, 2004 11:58 amWell, Mom left early this morning - we got up at the crack of dawn to see her off, which in NYC is 5:30 am. She was up at 4am. The car service to the airport picked her up at 6am and with any luck, she should be home now. Fingers crossed. At any rate - it's all ungodly early for a Sunday, but it will at least make it easier for me to get up at 7 am on Monday for my first day at the consulting gig. chanting:(PLEASE MAKE THIS WORK, PLEASE DON'T JINX)
Have decided to wear blue linen pants suit, with short sleeved silk shirt underneath for first day, since weather report is low 70s with rain. Lots of rain and mild weather this summer.
( The Weather Demon )
Been reading my friends list, even though don't have time to respond to it. Very interesting posts this week on lies, existentialism, duality and materialism by people such as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ann1962, an_old_one and arethusa2. oursin meanwhile is writing some interesting things about the history of feminisim and female sexuality in her live journal. Nice distracting reading material.
On the lies bit - I've learned over the past 37 years that distinguishing truth from lies isn't as easy as it looks or necessarily possible. So much of our knowledge is based on interpretation, perception, and memory and all three can be easily manipulated and warped to the extent that the truth in of itself becomes a rather intangible concept.
( The Muddy Truth or Separating Truth from Fiction )
Regarding duality and materialism? I honestly don't think I'm one or the other. I've found it increasingly difficult to lable myself lately. Not sure why. I don't mind organizing and labling things. Heck my new consulting assignment requires some of that. But when it comes to people, I become hesistant. We are so complex and ever changing. What we thought one day, may change the next depending on what happens in our personal lives. While it's comforting to define ourselves or place lables, I'm not sure it's possible really, as people have an irritating tendency to slip free of them when you least expect it. We want to know everything about someone else, yet we have barely touched the surface, I think, in knowing ourselves. I'm not sure we ever will, or rather I ever will, but the journey is certainly interesting even if I never come to the destination. Beginning to realize that destinations and definitions are sort of confining and not necessarily that important, going there and exploring the definitions and applying them is actually more liberating somehow. It's a weird discovery and probably makes no sense and I may even change my mind about all this tomorrow. But there it is.
Have decided to wear blue linen pants suit, with short sleeved silk shirt underneath for first day, since weather report is low 70s with rain. Lots of rain and mild weather this summer.
( The Weather Demon )
Been reading my friends list, even though don't have time to respond to it. Very interesting posts this week on lies, existentialism, duality and materialism by people such as
ann1962, an_old_one and arethusa2. oursin meanwhile is writing some interesting things about the history of feminisim and female sexuality in her live journal. Nice distracting reading material.On the lies bit - I've learned over the past 37 years that distinguishing truth from lies isn't as easy as it looks or necessarily possible. So much of our knowledge is based on interpretation, perception, and memory and all three can be easily manipulated and warped to the extent that the truth in of itself becomes a rather intangible concept.
( The Muddy Truth or Separating Truth from Fiction )
Regarding duality and materialism? I honestly don't think I'm one or the other. I've found it increasingly difficult to lable myself lately. Not sure why. I don't mind organizing and labling things. Heck my new consulting assignment requires some of that. But when it comes to people, I become hesistant. We are so complex and ever changing. What we thought one day, may change the next depending on what happens in our personal lives. While it's comforting to define ourselves or place lables, I'm not sure it's possible really, as people have an irritating tendency to slip free of them when you least expect it. We want to know everything about someone else, yet we have barely touched the surface, I think, in knowing ourselves. I'm not sure we ever will, or rather I ever will, but the journey is certainly interesting even if I never come to the destination. Beginning to realize that destinations and definitions are sort of confining and not necessarily that important, going there and exploring the definitions and applying them is actually more liberating somehow. It's a weird discovery and probably makes no sense and I may even change my mind about all this tomorrow. But there it is.
