Then and Now
When I used to teach school, one of my greatest pleasures was to go to bed early and read spiritual and other non-fiction books. I read them by the bagful. They nourished me considerably.
Now that I am immersed in Heavenletters™, it’s kind of the opposite. I don’t want to read spiritual writings or any serious writing. I want to read detective and spy-type novels! It almost doesn’t matter what I read, so long as it is mindless.
Not exactly what one would expect, is it?
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Well, no. You should at least read some serious stuff - horoscope, weather report, stock exchange. Keeps you grounded.
All reading stopped with me. Since I always hated spy-type things, not even that is left to me. And don't give me anything serious, deep, enlightening or important. Even my devouring Heavenletters quite suddenly dropped from me. I read one, then I sing it, then I paint it, then I go to the playground with it, forming it into a ball (I'll leave out the more shocking things here), and when I'm done I iron it and sing it again. What do you read when you're in love?
Jochen, I love what you do with Heavenletters. It's like a great poem.
If I did read a newspaper, I might well read my horoscope. Or I might choose one I like better!
Thank you Gloria for sharing...Its to be expected....I look at it this way...the only passion and hunger or thirst I had was for books that all the shelves contained
of the non-fiction and spiritual. I bought them and always
had funds to buy them...when I did not have funds for any particular book I wanted at a book store...either a friend
would have the exact book or it would get to me from an unexpected source...Now there dozens that I have not touched...and what do I find that avails time for a read
is arts and crafts books...a passionate hobby I can not
recall that I left years ago...and I mean years....So it makes sense..the aspects of being that we found of no significant interest for that moment revisit us to give us a break form the same class we have long graduated from.