Tue 10 Jul 2007
I love this. I want to remind myself of this. Today’s horoscope.
You may be required to execute a task that others will notice, but you might prefer a chance to creatively unveil your deeper feelings in a more private situation. The problem is that you aren’t interested in burying your feelings while you put a positive spin on things. The good news is that you don’t have to deceive anyone if you are working for a higher cause.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
I wonder if anyone who has ever sought and received advice from me feels this from me — that I point out the silver lining, that I seek to be understood as to my logic, that I try to draw my logic from an ethereal source. And it’s as true as Ben Franklin’s quote to the effect that one needn’t worry about a bad memory if one always sticks to the truth; there’s no evil motive to camouflage and no bloody hands to hide if my reasons, which I do creatively unveil in private to slicken understanding, are pure.
i can so relate. but then again, it is OUR horoscope.
Uh, silver lining?
No.
Diana – true, true, it’s “us.” =)
Adam – Hey, people who don’t know you are gonna take you seriously! Plus, isn’t it time you stopped being mad about taking my advice to “experiment”? You can’t STILL be sore (about that).
Adam – my conscience made me come back. Okay, I was just kidding. My blog has missed you.
Conscience? Okay, I no longer see law school in your future. (
[Hey, I inserted a symbol after the paren that cut off my comment. Huh.]
Happy birthday late. Here’s my horoscope for you:
You ever think back to your teens and wish you’d had it more together and how if you could go back you’d do it better because you weren’t awake enough at the time but now you are? Or your (early) 20s?
Your 30s are your power years, if you’re awake. Your you years. Your superhero years. Project ahead to your 50s and imagine what you’ll say then looking back on now, how if you could go back (to now) you’d do it better because you’re more aware.
I say focus not on what you don’t have or what schedule you’re behind on. Wake up early and discover/define your power and hurl it/you into daring enterprises and helping people. I say turn 40 breathless.
I “woke up” senior year in high school, in the sense that I saw and was able to behave accordingly to the Big Picture. Before that I was always disappointed by people and spent much of my time wallowing in that disappointment. As far as doing things better, I kinda wish I hadn’t ditched Cirque du Soleil and gotten in the biggest trouble I’d ever gotten into in high school, but it’s become one of those events that changed me and prevented future stupid decisions, and strengthened my sense of integrity. So, yeah. Not much I would change as far as HS goes.
Now my 20s was kinda scary, in the sense that after college, it was all sort of a blur without midterms and finals and years in college to mark the passing of time. But I think I continued to learn vicariously and develop my sense of self.
One of the essays we had to write in high school German class (in the German language, obviously) had the topic “In 10 years, how would you see yourself now?” I can’t remember what I wrote. But I like your idea of projecting forward and retrospecting back to my 30s to write it how I’d want to remember it later.
Thank you, Adam.
P.S. See, you should comment more often.