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From "Parabola: The Magazine of Myth and Tradition," Spring 1993:

"The bridging action of healing appears to be not an isolated act but an ongoing process. Another way of envisaging this process is as call and response: the Divine, the ultimate expression of wholeness, emits a call or a pull towards itself. The sufferer, the one who is ill or incomplete, yearns to respond to that call. We are all such sufferers, and we are all heroes when we admit that we are incomplete and at the same time accept the pain of being drawn out, through healing, towards the Divine. We see that healing is not passive; on the contrary, it demands the most active participation and a willingness to suffer."

From the look of that sweater, he doesn't deserve her anyway.

That's what I thought! I mean about him not deserving her...

It seems that way, too, that she is a lot more into him than he is. His loss, right?

Yes, but I don't think he'll ever realize it!

That's quite an extrapolation from just a frozen instant, but I like the way it flows.

And you're probably right.

I'm here to take care of some literary business, and also to visit a dear, life-long friend who has generously put me up in her home. The comment below I mistakenly put in response to the comment of the LJer above in this thread! Sorry.

Thanks, I'll have to look it up...

I found our friend here in a friendsfriends query. Maybe from your list? He seems very interesting, so I jumped in. :)

Fiction writers are obliged to make these guesses, and the process relies on trusting one's gut...which, as a wise woman once told me, is the ancient part of ourselves that hasn't yet learned to doubt itself.

Many thanks for your interest, and welcome aboard!

I thought I'd feel a lot of nostalgia, or some other related powerful emotion but instead it is just pleasantly and comfortably familiar, as if I hadn't been away for all those years. Yes, I'm having a wonderful time, and I brought a warm coat with me from Italy!

He's her older brother's friend. Everything she does is performative, and she still thinks that the way to make friends is to make people interested in her by taliing about herself a lot and by arguing with them.

Already he can tell that she has the personality of, say, a Dr Joan. He finds her interest dismaying, and doesn't want to encourage her youthful crush.

And besides, he lost his heart last year to a young married woman who teaches him the piano. Not that he told her, yet.

This is a most engaging and credible scenario, except that Dr. Joan had a fear of intimacy that this lass doesn't seem to have!

are you sure? Some of the most engaging and demonstrative people have a fear of real intimacy. They wear one heart on their sleeve but hide the real one. Dr Joan must have been aware that she herself has some of the symptons of the Hysteric.

Perhaps we're both too sentimental, you and I. Maybe those two are yuppies discussing Ikea!