The Harper’s essay is an outstanding piece of work, especially in your evenhanded and perceptive reflections about your family and their both unique and representative character.
"he didn’t care for self-righteous idealists" I enjoyed your essay, John, and the chance to learn more about your family history. It seems unfair to try and assess a life cut so short, deprived of the chance to grow and mature... Bildung. I hope you'll continue to do some live dialogues if writing less frequently is necessary. I think you come off well in the spontaneous spoken word.
Didn’t finish. What psychoanalytic experience shows is that remorse has to be authentic and that is the lonely part. The community only gives support for that process. Only? The love we are witnessing for the neighbor is that essential support. Transitional justice and reconciliation councils like the Gachacha or TRC were based on judging the sincerity of remorse. Performance was seen through. Reparation and repair this require truth. Truth is the foundational value and truth is what is now being corrupted and trampled—and being defended by the people of Minneapolis—with love.
Repentance requires acknowledgment of sin. Everyone acknowledges together but in their own mind are reviewing and feeling remorse. The value of the togetherness is that we recognize that we have all committed the same transgressions against “the law”. Through this remorse we recognize that the broken law matters to us and connects us to God. What experience as a psychoanalyst shows is that no other person can alleviate the deep and lonely pain of remorse.
The Harper’s essay is an outstanding piece of work, especially in your evenhanded and perceptive reflections about your family and their both unique and representative character.
"he didn’t care for self-righteous idealists" I enjoyed your essay, John, and the chance to learn more about your family history. It seems unfair to try and assess a life cut so short, deprived of the chance to grow and mature... Bildung. I hope you'll continue to do some live dialogues if writing less frequently is necessary. I think you come off well in the spontaneous spoken word.
Didn’t finish. What psychoanalytic experience shows is that remorse has to be authentic and that is the lonely part. The community only gives support for that process. Only? The love we are witnessing for the neighbor is that essential support. Transitional justice and reconciliation councils like the Gachacha or TRC were based on judging the sincerity of remorse. Performance was seen through. Reparation and repair this require truth. Truth is the foundational value and truth is what is now being corrupted and trampled—and being defended by the people of Minneapolis—with love.
Repentance requires acknowledgment of sin. Everyone acknowledges together but in their own mind are reviewing and feeling remorse. The value of the togetherness is that we recognize that we have all committed the same transgressions against “the law”. Through this remorse we recognize that the broken law matters to us and connects us to God. What experience as a psychoanalyst shows is that no other person can alleviate the deep and lonely pain of remorse.
Tanacious fall leaf
walking by late January
Now it is gone
I read this piece when you shared it last year. It is wonderful : beautifully written, perceptive and honest.
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