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Sitaram
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 Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 2:08 pm Post subject: Problems Solving Problems |
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| Sitaram wrote: | I begin to put down words as they come to
mind; words from the inner dialogue, the script in my heart, which I can
see and hear so clearly but cannot yet capture in print:
train,
Amtrak,
suicide,
psychotherapist,
administrator.
Often, I feel the desire to write, to create. But I do not equally often feel
inspired. This is a problem. Is this a problem? I play with the
words, rearranging them upon the page. Each sentence is so important.
A word is like a movie projector, casting action scenes upon the screen of
mind.
I want to write at this very moment, as I sip my morning coffee. I want to
write because in distracts me from problems. Shall we call it a problem
which solves problems?
A middle aged woman would come several times a year from India, to the
little Guyanese temple in Brooklyn. Ah, Brooklyn! That Mecca for all
faiths; a second Israel. She was a famous story teller. Well, story teller is
not the proper word. She had been all her life in the narration and
interpretation of the Ramayan, in song and sermon.
Here name was Lata. I once asked the pandit what that name means.
He said it is the word for a beautiful for climbing vine which flowers at
night.
Lata was giving a talk in the mandir one day. She said, "When you have
a thorn lodged under your skin, you can only remove it with another thing
which is sharp, which is like the thorn; a needle." Or, if you were an
exile in a forest, with no needle handy, you might use another thorn. Yes,
sometimes we need a problem to solve a problem.
And is there a solution to all problems?
The stranger sitting next to me, on the long train ride to Boston, smiled
and said "sometimes, even suicide is a way of moving on."
I have always tried to strike up interesting conversations with strangers
on long journeys.
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