--- authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > <snip> > > --- Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > That warmth came in handy during the past few > > > weeks > > > of subzero temperatures and ice storms! I can > only > > > describe it as being like an explorer, holding > down > > > a > > > barren outpost in Antarctica...the wind whipping > > > around the long line of our "barracks", the flat > ice > > > fields stretching endlessly in all > directions...one > > > kept wondering,"is this the moon?" > > > > Break out the Prozac, Martha, I'm gettin' > depressed > > again! > > This is the oddest letter. On one hand, it's shot > through with really painful upset and dismay and > resentment, but at the same time the blissy parts > strike me as completely genuine, not cranked up, as > seems so frequently to be the case with MD and > Purusha letters in which you can hear the gears > practically being stripped. > > It's like she's feeling both at once, or each in > turn > as she looks first outside and then inside herself. > I'd guess she's never had this experience before, or > never so starkly, and doesn't know what the hell to > do with it. On some level she *wants* to be > depressed, > and has good reason to be, but somehow that isn't > what's happening. > > Maybe I'm just romanticizing, but I'm really hearing > something different in this letter. I agree, Judy. It really is , not a strange letter, but an unusual one. She juxtaposes feeling very happy along with this bleak and barren description of the Iowa winter. Kind of like buddha in hell! > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > --------------------~--> > Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and > poor with hope and healing > http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM > --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> > > > To subscribe, send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!' > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/