Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Seed Moon<\/p>\n
“Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.” – Herman Hesse<\/p>\n
Hesse was a key author in my youth.\u00a0 I’ve revisited him since, as I am Dreiser right now.\u00a0 They both hold up well, though Hesse can sometimes seem a bit feverish.\u00a0 Still, his Steppenwolf had an adult anguish that I did not understand when I read it first at 20.\u00a0 The Theatre for Madmen Only was a place we all could go if we understood the world in which we lived.\u00a0 6 months ago, when I re-read Steppenwolf, I realized Harry Haller was mad in an existential way, that he had seen too much, walked too close to the flame.\u00a0 At 20 he was my hero, today he is a cautionary tale.<\/p>\n
The mental megrims of last week have receded, perhaps the sun today burned them out or the root canal gave me some concrete pain.\u00a0 Whatever the reason, I feel once again whole and engaged.\u00a0 These ups and downs, a neurotic cycle now much milder than in former years, do get tiresome, as I said a few posts ago, but they no longer paralyze me, stop me in my\u00a0 tracks.\u00a0 Thank Jung, John Desteian, age and Zoloft for that.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow morning Kate flies off to Denver.\u00a0 She will be in Grandma heaven.\u00a0 I saw a license plate holder that said, Parents say no?\u00a0\u00a0 Dial 1-800-Grandma.\u00a0 She’s a good grandma, more a doting grandma than a Jewish grandma, though she is both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Seed Moon “Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.” – Herman Hesse Hesse was a key author in my youth.\u00a0 I’ve revisited him since, as I am Dreiser right now.\u00a0 They both … Continue reading Megrims Burn in Sun<\/span>