Monthly Archives: December 2014

“Visitors’ Day”

Posted on December 31, 2014 by Abigail

“Visitors’ Day” As a writer, just now I’m between the last chapter of a revised edition of Conversions: A Philosophic Memoir, and the still-unwritten Afterward and Preface that will provide its new wrapping. As I reviewed (in more detail than … Continue reading →

Posted in Action, Alienation, Class, Culture, Erotic Life, Ethics, Evil, Faith, Femininity, Guilt and Innocence, History, Ideology, Jews, life and death struggle, Memoir, Political, Power, Psychology, relationships, Roles, Sexuality, Social Conventions, Spirituality, Suffering, The Problematic of Woman, War, Writing | Tagged "Conversions: A Philosophic Memoir", "The Gaza Girls", Adolf Eichmann, American Friends Service Committee, Americanization, anonymity, anti-semitism, Bettina Stangneth, book publication, creative work, Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer, feminine charm, FGM, genocidaire, hate crime, hijab, History, Holocaust, human rights, Israel, Jewish refugees, Jews, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, moral norms, niqab, norms of civilization, Palestinians, persecution, Quakers, satire, the Middle East, the Our Father, writing, YouTube, Zionism | 2 Comments

“Imperfections”

Posted on December 23, 2014 by Abigail

“Imperfections” I always wanted to grow up to be a great lover, a famous saint or – if it could be arranged – both. There were obstacles, the memory of which still visits me from time to time. For example, … Continue reading →

Posted in Alienation, Art, Culture, Ethics, Evil, Faith, Guilt and Innocence, Literature, Memoir, motherhood, Power, Psychology, relationships, Roles, Social Conventions, Spirituality, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Woman, Theism, Time | Tagged Ambiguity, anti-semitism, Bambi, childhood, choices of evils, compensations, concealments, displacements, double messages, fantasy, Felix Salten, Gandhi, gray area, honesty, Jews, Lazarus and The Rich Man, liars, Luke 16:26, Marcel Proust, memory, mental illness, moral education, narrative, New Testament, oath, ouija board, Protestant speech, Protestantism, subjective experience, tale-spinning, the bright red line, the light of truth, the Pale of Settlement, The Shtetl, the strap, truth-tellers, Tsarist regime, victims | 5 Comments

“Healing”

Posted on December 16, 2014 by Abigail

“Healing” In my seemingly endless quest to heal my right foot, one of the angles I look at is the mind/body relation. For this reason, I’m now reading a book called The Healing Journey by Matthew Manning. The author is … Continue reading →

Posted in Alienation, Culture, Desire, Faith, Friendship, Health, Memoir, Power, Psychology, relationships, Roles, Social Conventions, Spirituality, The Examined Life | Tagged "The Healing Journey", addictions, alternative medicine, belief system, coping strategies, Dr. Peter Nixon, emotions, God as Witness, healing, holistic healing, Human Function Check List, In God's hands, journal keeping, Matthew Manning, medical cure, mental power, mind/body relation, neurologists, personal defenses, positive thinking, psychic abilities, psychic phenomena, psychosomatic, Second Law of Themodynamics, self-monitoring, self-talk, stress, suicide, therapy, Western medicine and holistic medicine | Leave a comment

“Writing”

Posted on December 11, 2014 by Abigail

“Writing” I grew up among people whose most-oft-voiced concern was whether they would get their book, or next book, written. Without the book, the life-worth dwindled down to a small pile of ash, as my child’s mind pictured it. It … Continue reading →

Posted in Academe, Culture, Evil, history of ideas, Literature, Memoir, Philosophy, Power, Psychology, relationships, Spirituality, The Examined Life, Theism, Work, Writing | Tagged "A Good Look At Evil", "Conversions: A Philosophic Memoir", academe, alienation, American woman, Augustine, Authenticity, author, becoming a writer, Bildungsroman, books, brainwashing, childhood, coming-of-age books, confessions, conversion, critics, despair, double-binds, editors, explanatory hypotheses, Henry M. Rosenthal, intellectuals, Jane Cullen, Jewish Theistic essence, Leo Bronstein, literary ambition, literary criticism, narrative, philosophical articles, publishing, real life, referee, rejection letters, reviewers, Rousseau, Russians, secrets, university press, writers, writing | 2 Comments

“Rest”

Posted on December 2, 2014 by Abigail

“Rest” Rest, as I’ve said before in these columns, is hard for me. I don’t know when it got to be so hard. It seems one of the downsides of growing up but, since I’m not in favor of growing … Continue reading →

Posted in Academe, Action, Alienation, Art, Chivalry, Cool, Culture, Desire, dialectic, Erotic Life, Evil, Faith, Femininity, Feminism, Friendship, Guilt and Innocence, History, history of ideas, life and death struggle, Memoir, Philosophy, Poetry, Political, Power, Psychology, relationships, Roles, Sexuality, slave, Social Conventions, Spirituality, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Woman, Time | Tagged battle, combat, emotional work, failure, Faith, feminine self-image, frantic, Furies, God, Greek Lyrics, hurry, identity, introspection, jeopardy, life direction, life plateau, life purpose, life tasks, loss, lost time, memory, mental rape, motivation, narrative, other-directedness, personal history, purposive desire, rape, redemption, rest, Richard Lattimore, self-command, stolen identity, The 300, The Epitaph at Thermopylae, threat, unsuccess, victory and defeat, vocation, wisdom, work | 2 Comments

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