1.3 Back Here, David Lynch, and the Dalai Lama

Pronouncing my name — No call for dinner — Pass the salt — Finnish consonants — Day 1 of quarantine — Journey back to Finland — Keflavík — Heathrow — Finnair — Helsinki — Tampere — Exposure to others — Hand sanitiser — People creating ways to cope — No choice about returning — Thanks for caring — Pulling back on corona news — It won’t be like this forever — Some positive things — We are now missing one basic human thing — When this is over — Agoraphobic alcoholics — Alcohol lowers immunological capacity — Effect of stress and fear on the immune system — Study about watching the opening of Saving Private Ryan — Professor Michael Coleman, University of Jyväskylä — Bodies in Question — Effects of art and entertainment on the human body — Did later events mitigate? — People have strange objections — Nothing can be experienced without effects — The turn a lot of entertainment has taken — Hammering harder — Violence — David Lynch’s works — Knows how to do both dark and light — Sense of humour — Biography Room to Dream by David Lynch and Kristine McKenna — Also as audiobook — MAD magazine — Lack of a sense of humour a warning sign — The Dalai Lama’s sense of humour — Seeing him in person in Helsinki — His way of expressing himself — The expressive, lyrical English of many non-native speakers — The Dalai Lama breaks the rule — A healthy sign — People who shouldn’t be trusted — Johnny Depp quote from Death Ray magazine — Everybody’s crazy — As people we are weird — Better not hide it — One way psychological problems develop — Carl Jung said suppressing an emotion doesn’t work — Tired after yesterday — Original plan for a travel episode — Specifically the 1982 version of All Summer in a Day — Encouraging comments