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The Directions of Your Heart Before killing myself, methods of which Iâd been devising in my jumbled mind for several weeks, I decided to consult a professional. Not a professional in self-destructionâI didnât think I even needed one, since my ideas of how to end my life had been predictably creativeâbut one of those people trained in whatâs optimistically called Mental Health.Â
I will tell you what itâs like to dream of a long-dead childâthough of course there are as many ways to dream as there are people to do it, and far more than that. You have come back to a house where you once lived. You sold this house years ago, and other people have been living in it, but now you have returned. Returned to see the evidence of their neglect, which is everywhere. Your dreaming eyes take in traves...
I believe some people are sensitive about mindless promiscuity, even a single sentence of it. The year was 1939, in the merry month of May, and New York City was preparing itself to deliver what some hoped might be its favorite character. St. Vincentâs Hospital was the venue of choiceâright in the heart of Greenwich Village, where the competition for created characters was fierce. And sure enough...
ONCE AGAIN, FROM MEMORY âDid you remember your fingerpicks?â âYes.â âFlatpicks?â âYes.â âCapo?â âYes.â âSet list?â âYES!â âYou donât need to get mad.â âIâm not exactly mad.â âYou look exceedingly mad to me.â  âIâm just annoyed that youâre bothering me with all these questions.â...
SIX LETTERS OF ILLUMINATION I didnât really think much about happiness until I had the opportunity, in a Scrabble game, of adding âpinessâ to the existent âhapâ. Indeed, the act of putting âpinessâ on the board would have brought happiness to almost anyone, and it certainly made my opponentâs day, my opponent being my fifteen-year-old nephew. âPiness! Ha ha ha!â The very f...
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