Hi John, I can't even begin to tell you how much I value your posts.
I have not directly experienced the loss of a child... I have experienced anguish and joy; I DO experience them, but they cannot be contained, not in a word or a moment. Is caring a definition? Caring is not intellectual, it is not social, it is not biological or inorganic. Caring is without knowledge, definition, divisibility. Caring is immediate. Suffering seems to me a more generalized term, even when I read it in a Buddhist context. Is caring Quality? What is unconditional love? Yours, Marsha p.s. I placed 'Never Let Me Go' into my Netflix queue. I'll be watching it right after 'American: The Bill Hicks Story'. On Jun 19, 2011, at 2:25 AM, John Carl wrote: > Greetings Marsha, > > On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 3:19 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Greetings John, >> >> I have chosen to read the shooting script for American Beauty. >> What a surprise. Less than a hundred pages, much of it scene >> setup and white space. The DVD series 'THE DIALOGUE: screen >> writer' has been so interesting I felt compelled to read a script for >> myself. One can find libraries that have available the series from >> initial script to final shooting script. I'd love to read a set. >> > > > I love good movies and that ranks up there with the best. > > > >> >> Compelled by a multitude of causes and conditions, including a >> strong curiosity. Some people generalize when they need to, >> but prefer to leave experience open whenever possible. Others >> are quick to make a judgement and seem to need strict order. >> And, of course, there are all variations thereof. Nature? Nurture? >> Habit.? Evolution? Pattern described as a tendency? Add an >> adjective... >> >> My name is Lester Burnham. This is my >> neighborhood. This is my street. This ... >> is my life. I'm forty-two years old. In >> less than a year, I'll be dead. >> >> Patterns are interesting. The MoQ is seriously interesting. >> Mr. Pirsig is a genius. IM - not so - HO... >> >> I still don't know much about suffering. >> >> Yours, >> >> Marsha > > > > Ah, let me offer you a very educational movie on the subject. just finished > it and I think you'd like it a lot. Suffering, yet beautiful and poignant. > Never Let Me Go. Here's how it ends, since I just watched it. > > Past sunset, light in the clouds, dark on the earth a large tree dark in the > foreground... > > > Sad violin music... > > > voice over narration: > > > I come here, and imagine this is the spot where everything lost since my > childhood has washed up. I tell myself, if that were true... and I waited > long enough... then a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the > field and gradually get larger til I could see that it was Tommy. He'd > wave. And maybe call. I don't let the fantasy go beyond that. I can't let > it. I remind myself I was lucky to have any time with him at all. What I'm > not sure about, is if our lives were so different than the lives of the > people we saved. > > > We all complete. > > > Maybe none of us really understand what we lived through. Or had enough > time. > > > Directed by Mark Romanek > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html ___ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
