tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post8884756348641358850..comments2024-03-18T15:17:26.003-05:00Comments on l'astronave: RefuelingFrescahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-10820696574463335772020-12-09T08:32:01.145-06:002020-12-09T08:32:01.145-06:00ADIE DAS: Thank you for commenting!
I hadn't w...ADIE DAS: Thank you for commenting!<br />I hadn't watched that TED talk since 2016, and I just watched it again and appreciated it all over again.<br /><br />Your comment also spurred me to repost this again today.<br />Thank you.<br />--Frex = Fresca<br />Frexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13191192404386975664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-91911115002475478322020-12-09T06:40:02.055-06:002020-12-09T06:40:02.055-06:00thank you for putting up the TED talk by Sami Mouk...thank you for putting up the TED talk by Sami Moukaddem. I've never heard it described so well. The 5 year old who realises he is alive even without choosing it. The sadness of existing. Adie Dashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02114948684993677061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-17354014632485829782016-10-14T14:10:59.924-05:002016-10-14T14:10:59.924-05:00Powerful stuff!Powerful stuff!binknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-14321370146175679272016-10-14T09:00:29.009-05:002016-10-14T09:00:29.009-05:00I'm adding the link into the post.I'm adding the link into the post.Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-83249933739766738822016-10-13T16:30:50.765-05:002016-10-13T16:30:50.765-05:00Thanks, Michael, I also read that article long ago...Thanks, Michael, I also read that article long ago and have always remembered those exact passages---as well as the explanation of why you die when you hit the water---the impact breaks and mixes your insides together like scrambled eggs.<br />I'd never really understood how that worked before.<br /><br />*smiling at you!*Frexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13191192404386975664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-42187675836647190202016-10-13T15:56:25.055-05:002016-10-13T15:56:25.055-05:00There’s a great New Yorker article in which Kevin ...There’s a great <i>New Yorker</i> article in which Kevin Hine makes an appearance:<br /><br />http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/10/13/jumpers<br /><br />This article has two passages that have long stuck with me. I shared them often when teaching. One is about another Golden Gate survivor, Ken Baldwin:<br /><br />“I still see my hands coming off the railing,” he said. As he crossed the chord in flight, Baldwin recalls, “I instantly realized that everything in my life that I’d thought was unfixable was totally fixable—except for having just jumped.”<br /><br />And the other, about an unnamed man who jumped and didn’t survive, recounted by a doctor who’s pushed for barriers on the bridge:<br /><br />“The guy was in his thirties, lived alone, pretty bare apartment. He’d written a note and left it on his bureau. It said, ‘I’m going to walk to the bridge. If one person smiles at me on the way, I will not jump.’”<br />Michael Leddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886noreply@blogger.com