26. Broken Light

Hello, Welcome. I’m Renée Valentina, and this is Musing Interruptus. Listen to Musing Interruptus if you like stories and learning idiomatic phrases in different contexts. You can read along; just click on continue reading in the description to open a Google Doc with the transcription of this episode. The idiomatic expressions are in italics. Try to get the meaning from the context and then look them up to see if you were right. If you like it, subscribe, follow, and share, but more importantly, continue the conversation. Drop a comment with your answers to today’s questions! I love hearing from you! We need to carry on for the living. Some have children, some don’t.It is important to find a reason to care, things that move us in life. The living’s well-being for one, your own well-being, is a great place to start. That which gives meaning to your life can change throughout your existence. What you want to experience in your lifetime is fundamental knowledge. Where do you want to go, what do you want to see, what change do you want to be a part of? What do you want to create? How do you want to be remembered? The path becomes clearer when we start to answer these questions.I was thinking about all of this because a dear student has been struggling with an ailment. She suspended our work, temporarily. Just until her health picked up again. We worked together, one-on-one; our classes were sweet, sometimes funny, and we did homework together. And there were stories.I’ve told lots of stories, or parts of them. Shared thoughts. Some of my favorite stories are in music. When we listen to music, we get a part of the story. What the writer was feeling is revealed and accompanied by music and instruments, all of which communicate a piece of a greater tale, a description of a person, or the depth and hues of the atmosphere.A voyeur in recovery. Many many years ago I decided to be more respectful of people’s stories and my own. The energy they contain should not be exploited lightly. There is a reason I write what I write and never show what I paint publicly. It’s not just because I’m not a very good painter.With the recognition of the hallowedness of that energy comes a clock that runs on a Platonic schedule. You will learn in due time [and struggle]. This might be applied to the people we meet, teach, and learn from, those whom we love. A Freudian metronome that marks the time in which we pursue certain types of relationships, with ourselves and others. Some stories are shared with that type of precision.Continue reading: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Du0UyCQOvcI6_ZNf25j5QDr66LY_-mcM84JPWWTyHLI/edit?usp=sharing