Monday - I Put The Lime In The Coconut...
Can we ever count on being cared for by others? To what extent? Does anyone besides me ever look back and miss being a young child, nurtured when sick?
I am boiling chicken soup, antibiotics are being readied at the pharmacy, I'm taking care of myself.
I watch movies at my desk, where I also blog, and write lessons, and mark tests, write recommendations, eat meals. This desk and the computer atop it host me for many hours a day and/or night. My movie watching is all on the computer. The DVD player keeps breaking, or pretending to break - working, but being just out of my access. I pushed a wrong button and now it doesn't play for me. So I do all my movie watching - via Netflix - here on the computer, which makes it all too easy to pause often and turn attention elsewhere. Not so nice to the movie. Films are made to be watched whole. Oh well. Sorry. I particularly like foreign movies, but they take a lot of attention and here at the computer they induce a lot of pausing. Months ago I started watching The Beaches of Agnes and thought I had a bit remaining. I just tuned in to find I've only watches 20 minutes of the 2 hour total. In any case, it's a beautiful film.
"Time has passed and passes, except on the beaches - which are timeless." - Agnes Varda
Do you like the beach? Do you find that it has a timeless quality? Explain. Do you like walking along the shore and having the water hit your feet, maybe - maybe not? I love that.
The smell of fresh soup is filling my apartment. The aroma alone makes me feel healthier as I inhale the turnips, parsnips, and chicken. Oh my.
I just learned that not only does Agnes Varda love the sea, she loves children and men who gaze at the sea and don't always want to go home. She calls men who gaze at the sea Ulysses, after the legend. That revelation is followed in the film by trapeze artists doing their craft along the shore. Gorgeous.
Agnes interviews a woman around her own age, 83, who has trouble remembering day to day things but loves reciting poetry she committed to memory long ago. Upon being prompted with the first line she completes the following:
The roof where dovelike sails go and come
Peacefully trembles near each pine and tomb
High noon appeases with a brilliant flame
The sea, the sea, renewed forever
Medicine picked up.
A friend just called for chizuk via friendship. And that simple act, that simple fact, gave me strength.
posted by rabbi neil fleischmann @ 8:00 PM
3 Comments:
When I saw the title of this post, I thought, oh, hope he's not sick! "Doctor, is there something I can take, Doctor, to relieve this belly ache?" Chicken soup is good--cures everything, in my opinion. It sounds as if you are using your sick time well--doing too much, maybe? Rest and read. And refuah shelamah, RN!
i used to (until yesterday) think the song was, "you put the lion in the coconut and drink it all up."
also, have you tried setting the computer up a few feet away from you, and you sitting on the couch, lights low, with your movie-watching-drinks/snacks? that makes it a bit more challenging to just change your mind and check email,etc. might work to stay focused on the movie - being more "fair" to the movie as yousay.
-carmiya
Thanks to both of you. Cool, Anon that you know the lyrics. And cool Carmiya what you thought the lyrics were? What's that term for misheard lyrics? The chicken soup was helpful yesterday and last night - I kept refilling and tweaking it. Then I fell asleep and left it out so today I'll have to start all over again. I'm trying to pull back - thanks for your caring concern anon. If it wasn't impossible I'd suspect this anon was my mom. Carmiya, I can't move my desk top and am waiting on the comp guy to come (hopefully Sun) to help me get wifi on my laptops. I do want to respect the films (and maybe enjoy them more). BTW - if you search your name on the blog you'll find your wedding announcement, a cake recipe that you made when you and your husband stayed over, and somewhere there's a play by play report of the time before, during, and after the wedding.
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