Reading DU too often is the antithesis of the novel experience.

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13. I like this thread!

I just got off the phone with a dear friend and we were talking about similar things. She's a psychologist in Sydney, Australia now. She's visiting Los Angeles and called me. I asked her what she is finding in her clients. She said mainly she's seeing anxiety. She said it's good that people want to find out how to address it and maybe deal with it, and they are relieved to find that others are dealing with it too. She sees people who want to be connected to something other than themselves or even their partners or families. It relates here in that we are all striving for that. But it cannot happen 24/7. The best thing I've learned from working with horses is that there's lots of down-time - lots of standing around kind of sleepy and staring out with anxiety about what predators might mess with you and your herd - 'being happy' all the time is a ridiculous unattainable goal. The best thing I learned from reading James Joyce's Ulysses is that mere language cannot express all of our feelings. I'm going out for a long walk now and will look at the moon and stars. Thanks for stimulating some thought. Have a good night folks.