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  How Often Do You Come To JWD During A Day, Week or Month??? Hours or Mins?

  by minimus in

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  compound complex

  Dear Diary,

  I am back from music lessons - a successful excursion into the world of phrasing and proper interpretation. Students do seem to get the point and have a natural ability to use hands in a manner different from the usual. Very gratifying to both the student and, especially, the teacher. Takes all my energy and concentration, but what else is there? Of course, sharing with you, DD, is a major event in my life. You listen quietly and do not judge. Would never intentionally downplay the role you play in my life. Am getting dinner. Maria Callas "performing" at Met, Saturday matinee -10:30 a.m., NPR. Her only performance at the Met, I believe announcer said 1956. "Lucia di Lammermoor" - by Gaetano Donizetti.

  Back soon....

  C...
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  How Often Do You Come To JWD During A Day, Week or Month??? Hours or Mins?

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  Dear Diary,

  I want to sleep and sleep, though it is midday and the rest of the world is doing its thing with no knowledge of what ails me. Clarissa has declared to her daughter that her busyness amounts to triviality. But she is only truly alive when she is with Richard. Yes, he is dying of AIDS; there is understandable tension as she fusses over his health, inwardly denying the outcome she knows is so certain, yet putting on a happy face. Richard sees right through the facade; he knows her so well. She loves him. What should she do differently? Louis Watters, Richard's former signifother, drops in early for the party and throws her for a loop. Suddenly, the delicate balance between a composed and calm exterior and the disquiet that lies beneath is shattered. She is not free from this man - Richard. But Louis walked away years before and declares his love of freedom; he has, it would seem, no regrets. He asks Clarissa if she thinks him ridiculous after revealing a new twist in his San Francisco-life........
  Clarissa and Louis and Richard: I may not choose your society, no, you may never become those with whom I share; yet, you none of you is neither ridiculous nor your life one of meaningless triviality. You do have reason to extract and savor every precious moment possible from your inevitable and necessary existence. Our paths may never cross. Nevertheless, I do need you.........

  C...
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  How Often Do You Come To JWD During A Day, Week or Month??? Hours or Mins?

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  Dear Diary,

  Saint-Saen's Symphony # 2 concludes as I begin to pen my thoughts. Isabella Moretti plays harp now - piece by Rodrigo. Seville Symphony Orchestra. Written a year before her birth (1962[?]). Was gone for 16 minutes. Returned movies yesterday but somehow a jacket became separated from plastic case. They called last night asking me to please return jacket. Three-mile round trip - absolutely unnecessary. No one but you and me'll ever know. Am so feeling stupid. But got to say hello to M at store. Nice to talk and smile, however briefly.
  Schizo left message again; bad, demanding tone of voice. What're the issues today? Allegiance to the cause. The sky is falling. Call me back - NOW! I thought I was free - never.
  Pork chops for dinner, a gift from dear friend. Could never afford them myself. Back to The Hours; rather compelling so far. Thank you for being here, Dear Diary, my strong and taciturn friend. Where'd I be sans toi? So much is good for me, but there is that element of loss.........

  C...
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  Dea Diary,

  Well, I AM up, but I'm not at 'em. Not quite yet. Armed with a stiff cuppacafe that truly does not require a cup; it could pretty much be free-standing. In a dream a few hours back, I was being contacted by aliens and saying to myself, 'I wish this were a dream, but it isn't.' Then they started levitating me and took me to visit my grandmother. She only scolded me for not visiting her more often. So often she and Grandpa occupy my dreams; I realize that they had been dead but were brought back from beyond. Wherever did that notion come from? Weird. Maybe I need to spend more time with Nancy Drew and less on the Starship Enterprise.
  Clarinet Quartet on now, by Finnish composer - not Sibelius. Earlier, Placido Domingo was singing "And the Stars Were Shining," from Tosca - G. Puccini. Also, Issac Stern performing Max Bruch's Violin Concerto # 1. Accompanied by the Philadelphia Orchestra. I recall Mr. Stern helping to finish off [in the good sense] with a flourish the Meryl Streep vehicle, "Music from the Heart." He seemed such a kindly gentleman, DD. Like Dad was. A lovely orchestral piece is on now - simple and unadorned - by Peter Warlock.
  Back soon, DD. Must needs eat.

  C...
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  Is the Watchtower beginning to lose its grip on its members?

  by Gill in

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  i have seen a counsellor on and off since leaving watchtower land.

  she has made efforts to find out more about jehovah's witnesses.. we were discussing why my jw family (not my husbands' they shun us as if we smell bad!!!!

  ) are beginning to spend more time with us.

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  Dear Gill,
  
  Greetings! Made it back - finally. I'm still trying to take it all in. My take on the local level is different from that here on board JWD. Of course, here we have permission to speak freely. Those JWs with whom I have contact locally - definitely not at the KH! - "seem" happy and speak of the wonderful comaraderie. It so happens that, on a social level, dubdom here is doing very well. That's what I miss, especially the gatherings of family linked by marriage [mine]. With the exception of a few JWs who are simply wonderful people [and do not know my reality], I receive no invitations. So - to the point - I don't know how these people are at heart vis-a-vis their perception of the WT. Some have hinted at, some have been quite direct at voicing unhappiness with local elders and their attitudes and procedures; however, I know of no dissention over doctrine and the like. I'm sure most dubs here are totally ignorant of the Force's Dark Side. Is my own ignorance over their real feelings due to being pretty much out of the loop?

  CoCo
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  Dear Diary,

  I'll be Back Tackling The Tunes - soon.

  C...
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  Dear Diary,

  A new day dawns - well it's hardly dawn, but the clock and calendar say 18 January. I see your pages are still open to where I left off last night. Better tell you more about that '52 WT article on the "Patriarchal Society" before I take off on some tangent to Tangiers.

  "[...secrets of nwo being unlocked, noot is taking shape, will be fully operational at big A] For this reason God's witnesses on earth are now diligently studying the Holy Scriptures to fully examine the numerous shadows, principles, methods, procedures, and systems employed by God's servants in Biblical times. God's dealings with those ancient societies foreshadowed many developments in the new world order of things."

  What does this all purport to be, DD? Apart from all the usual speculations and arguments arising for/against "who is" the real power behind world rulership, why does the WTB&TS use the terminology it does? Why are they associated with the UN, a temporal agency whose earthly goals are so clearly spelled out? Whatever truly is going on between the man behind the curtain and those he used to so fervently denounce as the spawn of Satan, remains to be seen. But I have no doubt that, should it become expedient, the loving "Church Council of C'lyn" will sell the sheep down the river without batting an eye.

  Saint-Saen's tone poem, "The Spinning Wheel," has begun. Composed in 1872, after Franco-Prussian War. Finito. Now, YoYo Ma is playing a portion of a cello suite - Sarabande - by J. S. Bach. Robert Schumann's Symphony # 1 (Spring) is coming up momentarily. Took quite a few years and some rewrites to get it right. Do I have to do a number of rewrites to get it "right" with you, DD?

  C...
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  Dear Diary,
  
  Will you still be open for awhile? Have to catch some winks then return after I recompose myself and la musique. Back innabit.

  (Je vais continuer avec le metier d'ecrivain, YC! Merci!)
  
  CoCo
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  Dear Diary,

  Had dinner, or as we said at the BIG HOUSE, supper. Salade a la romaine, spaghetti al dente, with ground round in marinara sauce. Wait till the good stuff is marked down, then buy a little package - enuf - for $3.00. Cannot believe the price per pound otherwise. Wasn't hamburger, like, 5 lbs. for a dollar? That musta been a few years back! How is it you say - LOL! Hey, DD --- guess who's on NPR now, at this VERY moment? Ralph [Raef] Vaughn Williams: Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus, conducted by Barry Wordsworth. I told you how, since I learned about his glorious, soaring melodies in Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (I was introed to this masterpiece at B'lyn B), I was taken in by the sonorities of music most surely conceived and birthed in a cavernous, Anglican cathedral. I remember visiting Saint John the Divine Cathedral in the City. Episcopal, the American version, I believe. I can see the vast interior at this moment - and RVW's Five Variants are delicately weaving their exquisite melody and harmony, in and out, to an incredibly rich climax, drawn out by an allargando that must be heard to be believed - incomparable! You must hear these pieces! Both the Fantasy and the Variants - It is absolutely a close encounter of a spiritual kind. Did you get all that, DD?
  Guess I got sidetracked from the WT quotation I was going to write out. Can you wait till a bit later, Dear Diary? I scatter when la belle musique assaults mine ears.

  CoCo
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  Dear Diary,

  Mozart's Divertimento # 1 in D, finished airing moments ago; aka [?] the Salzburg Symphony. An excellent example of ensemble playing. Hey DD, getta load of Wolfie's full name:

  Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart

  "J" & "C" - born 27 Jan./derived from saint of that day; "T" means lover of God; though Wolfgang was his personal name, he used Amade' as his signature name: French version of Theophilus/Gottlieb/Amadeus.
  Guess it's time to scare up some grub. Edvard Grieg's "Norwegian Dances" has concluded. 5:00 p.m. NPR NEWS - Bush Adm. claims Foreign Intelligence Court too slow re : acquiring of intelligence on terrorism - wire-tapping fits in here somewhere/ going it alone causing problems [understatement?]; House in favor of cutting student loan rates from 6.8% to 3.4% over five years. Sen D. Matsui spoke; must pass Senate; Bush opposed; Dow closed 5 points. Did I term that correctly?
  I must be starving by now, DD. Takes me forever to write all this down. I think I'm getting better at retaining all these trivia bytes. Well, not so trivial when it is a matter of young adults getting affordable loans. Dear Diary, I remember that my payment on a federal grant, for the one year I did go to conservatory, was $65 every three months. No wonder I'm still broke!
  I really have to fix dinner, NOW, DD! Please release me.........

  C...