I had book group tonight and we reviewed The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. I listened to the book while multi-tasking since I had read it before. I can't say that I enjoyed the book (either time) but I was able to find meaning.
From Chapter Seven:
"I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story.
From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fid was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantine and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't make out.
I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just beause I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet."
I would give almost anything to be able to write like that. I know the feeling she is describing so well. I can have it all, but too often I chose nothing.
Today's Quote: In the process of defining myself, i have a tendency to set up rules and boundaries and then forget that rules are made to be broken, as are boundaries to be expanded and crossed. ~~ Kathleen Casey Theisen
Today's Meditation: My value system awaits finer definition, and every experience today presents me with an opportunity for that definition.
Saint Alphege - Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr (953-1012) - "Then was he captive . who had been the head Of the English race . and of Christensom. There was misery to be seen . where bliss had been before In that unhappy city . whence came to us first Christendom and happinss . in sight of God and Man." ~~ Angle-Saxon Chronicle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Alphege)
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