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November 2009 
What will you never regret?
Posted on Feb 19th, 2009
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TextMage
TextMage
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for February 19, 2009:
Got two: I will never regret again, being discharged as a 1-O Conscientious Objector after refusing to go to Vietnam, or my divorce, which resulted in never seeing MY elder children again. Not seeing them hurts every day, but . . .
I've already spent too much time in regret. Regret should be called "Regret City;" it is that strong of a place. Pain and regret have geographies, biographies, and histories.
I can go there to visit, observe and record, so that I might use their information, but I am no longer going there and making myself comfortable.
I've already spent too much time in regret. Regret should be called "Regret City;" it is that strong of a place. Pain and regret have geographies, biographies, and histories.
I can go there to visit, observe and record, so that I might use their information, but I am no longer going there and making myself comfortable.
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Are you in contact with your children though? By phone, letter or email?
I saw montims question and while it’s a hard one, it struck me as one of the reasons I like this place. I say that even though I hardly venture off into except your journal RicHARD. I love your point about pain and regret having geographies. Then also that pain and distress sometimes has something to teach just, so that those “places” are worth visiting, but not the sort of place you want to get too comfortable staying.
LOL I’m so shallow and always seem to put a song to it. I thought about Bob Marley’ss “Running Away.”
I’ve got to
protect my life, (running away)
And I don’t want
to live with no strife. (running away)
It is better to
live on the housetop (running away)
Than to live in
a house full of confusion. (running away)
So, I made my
decision and I left ya; (running away)
http://www.metrolyrics.com/running-away-lyrics-bob-marley.html