!Christina's September questions
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agk's diary
11 September 2025 @ 00:49 UTC
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written on GPD MicroPC with vi via puTTY
at the public library while daughter's at school
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I love Christina's questions. She asks us out of
lonely diaries into asynchronous visits with each
other.
1. In what Olympic event would I wish to compete?
I'd love to ice-skate beautifully. Or greco-
roman wrestle.
2. What was child me's favorite comic strip?
Pa had a book of Prince Valiants. I looked at
their saturated color in awe but can't remember
the story. In the papers, Calvin and Hobbes? I
don't know as I favored any. Each was like a
long tube to a different strange puppet show.
3. In a vivid dream did I fly, fall, or run?
I used to have vivid escape and evasion dreams.
Encounters with SWAT teams and helicopters are
far enough in my past it's been a long time.
I looked in one old diary and found non-running
dreams with elements in common with those where
I ran. I'd have to dig in boxes to find a diary
with an evasion dream.
4. Do I believe in afterlife?
God's time's perpendicular with lived time I
experience, not subsequent. The world's created
every moment, not only long ago. The end of
time could be any moment.
All the saints are raised a spiritual body, in
communion unbreakably eternal, in God's time.
They participate in temporal communion, never
lost to us living. A spiritual experience is a
glimpse of the ever-present eternity.
It isn't after life, beyond the sky, under the
waters. It's here, now, reflected in memory and
practice. I tasted heaven and dwelled in hell,
alive. What I do, how I live, matters immed-
iately. Judgment and grace aren't deferred.
5. How do I tell ignorance from malice?
Hard to do when you're a loner. In a club, an
affinity group, a church, or a political party,
you can have standards and gently educate the
person who breaks them. Ignorant people learn.
Malicious people don't.
