First Layer: We have an aura. It’s said to hover above our head and around the edges of our body. Best bet: wear white and sit in a room with white walls. Ask a friend to look at your aura for you. We can’t see our own aura. We are inside it, like a dry cleaning bag....
“The drama in my plays, I think, is nearly always people trying to reach each other . . . It’s true they’re confined inside their own skins, or their own cubicles, but they must try to get out as much as — they must try to find a common ground on which they can meet ....
“Nature is a Haunted House— but Art—a House that tries to be haunted. ” —Emily Dickinson Case Notes: Patty Emerson Berglund Fictional Work: Freedom Author: Jonathan Franzen Patty came to me because of chronic recurring depression and intermittent alcoholic behavior...
“What would the world look like if I rode on a beam of light.” —Albert Einstein at the age of fourteen A girl leaves her apartment in Brooklyn and starts walking. When I say “girl,” I mean she is in her early twenties. Her apartment is right next to...
Volcanic eruptions seem to be a normal process in the development of terrestrial planets.” —from A Meeting With the Universe (NASA) Something is lurking under the surface. How do you know it’s there? Because his skin is bad and he can’t sleep. Well, of...
“When I expect myself to be superhuman, I become anxious and depressed; when I expect you to be, I become hostile; when I expect the world to be superperfect, I become self-pitying and rebelliously inert. If I am truly human, and expect nothing but humanness...
