Quote from "I Feel Nothing: and Other Reflections" by Nora Ephron:
"If this is one of the last days of my life, am I doing exactly what I want to be doing?"
She also wondered if she knew what she should be doing. Age 69 when she wrote the memoir, aging and death were on her mind. Much like my own. I mean should I be doing this? Never had a following for my Homeless blog/story. Why am I wasting time reading, reviewing books on Goodreads and of course, playing a Facebook game that I quit playing in 2018.
Ms. Ephron did not know that her days were numbered. All of ours are. She had about two more years of life on earth while she was writing this book. She loved writing, so perhaps she was doing exactly what she wanted to do.
Ms. Ephron did not know that her days were numbered. All of ours are. She had about two more years of life on earth while she was writing this book. She loved writing, so perhaps she was doing exactly what she wanted to do.
She wrote about her addiction to a Scrabble Blitz game; dreaming about people who became tiles and tiles flipping tiles. I have had dreams that I am playing games. It might have been Free Cell or Minesweeper or any number of games. I get frustrated in dreams sometimes when I am trying to harvest crops on Farm Town, and the mouse does not work or something like that.
Then I might realize, in the dream, that it is a dream or will wake up to a duh moment, no wonder the game was not co-operating. I have also had those types of dreams about jobs that involved a lot of repetition.
Aruba: Ephron coined a word or used an island name to describe a hair problem.
"...from the back, it looks as if I have either forgotten to comb my hair or as if I'm just a little bit bald."
Shame on me for noticing residents of the building whose hair looked like that from the back of their head. Now I have Aruba hair also.
"I believed when people claimed they'd been misquoted, they were just having trouble dealing with the sight of their words in bols, hard print."
NO! I was misquoted in an article after being interviewed about my homelessness.
Then I might realize, in the dream, that it is a dream or will wake up to a duh moment, no wonder the game was not co-operating. I have also had those types of dreams about jobs that involved a lot of repetition.
Aruba: Ephron coined a word or used an island name to describe a hair problem.
"...from the back, it looks as if I have either forgotten to comb my hair or as if I'm just a little bit bald."
Shame on me for noticing residents of the building whose hair looked like that from the back of their head. Now I have Aruba hair also.
"I believed when people claimed they'd been misquoted, they were just having trouble dealing with the sight of their words in bols, hard print."
NO! I was misquoted in an article after being interviewed about my homelessness.
Later she knew "that people are constantly being misquoted." OKAY. Thank you!
She used the word lottery. I think of a huge roulette wheel, wondering which of my residences' neighbors will come up next. My days are numbered. will I be next? What should I be doing with the last days of my life?
A friend's father was playing a hand-held game when a sudden heart attack took him from earth. It was many years ago, but I will think of him when I am sitting in front of the computer and think: not now, not now, I need to be away from the computer if and when I have a fatal heart attack. (I wish for that rather than death due mantle cell lymphoma.)
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