I am simultaneously reading Proust's 'Remembrances of Things Past' and Eckhart Tolle's ' The Power of Now'. Contradictory intellectual supplies! Utterly stupid I say ( to start with, when you read two books at the same time, neither makes sense). But that's what I do. Indulgences in conflicting elements feeds and breeds the almost comforting and familiar confusion. Almost a perverse pleasure in pickling in past melancholy as some sort of symbolic revolt as I flirt with the innate desire to get 'better' with sensible, contemporary therapeutic solutions of ' moving on'.
Eckhart Tolle looks like a white Muslim with his blonde and painfully thin beard. He also looks very Finnish. He is not very Vancouver in his speech. Which makes him very interesting to watch and listen to (You Tube)
the combo of Carbamazepine and the anti depressants are beginning to kick in; almost threatening to make me feel 'sane'.I even got motivated in making myself a peanut butter and sliced banana sandwich! Maybe tomorrow I will get a date and do some ironing!!!!
Constant drizzle of snow since early evening but too wet to settle on the ground.
My younger daughter's Facebook status reads ' Launderettes are lonely places! (Yes I do spy on them just a tiny bit).Blimey, there SHE starts her existentialistic indulgences!!
Saw a few clips made by a charismatic 'Christian' called Rob Bell who runs a church in Ohio. He calls them 'Noomas' (means spirit in Greek). He is predictably different, sharply market- aware, thin, wears converses, smart glasses and comes across as a bit of a poetic introspective than an evangelist even though he incongruously throws in the odd biblical chapters and verses. The poor guy must be paranoid of the orthodox zealots! Nice guy and will appeal to the (non- neurotic) mainstream. I quite liked him even though I was tempted to start a satirical series called say, 'Bloomahs' under a pseudo name say, Bobby Ding Dong!! Ah! Religion!
Miss I, M, J, A decent curry and a long drive!!
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