"My initial reaction is anger at the mother myself. I don't know for sure why... perhaps it is fear that I, as a mother, would ever be in her positon... so BE STRONG and FIGHT what has happened to your son. Crazy thinking like…"
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Amy Jaeger replied to Humanities Roundtable's discussion 'Reflections On...Being Asleep in America'
"Beautiful! I am so touched by the things Rebecca and Theresa have said. Thank you both for sharing your stories and for putting some perspective in this particular question and discussion for me. Thank you, thank you!"
Amy Jaeger replied to Humanities Roundtable's discussion 'Reflections On...Being Asleep in America'
"Wow! Maybe this topicis more than I can bear!"
Amy Jaeger replied to Humanities Roundtable's discussion 'Reflections On...Being Asleep in America'
"Mac that is great!! I haven't found that "thing" yet that helps me. I've never been a fisher. I would say reading is maybe the thing that helps me focus the most, however lately I feel like everything stacks up and makes it hard…"
Amy Jaeger replied to Humanities Roundtable's discussion 'Reflections On...Being Asleep in America'
"I just read the poem again and I am still stuck with the idea that a very major theme is the cacophony of sound and activity surrounding us as well, and how that hinders reflection and discourse. Maybe that is just where I am at, struggling to sort…"
Amy Jaeger replied to Humanities Roundtable's discussion 'Reflections On...Being Asleep in America'
"This discussion if so interesting. Causing me to do a lot of thinking. Gut level I think that it is a legitimate pain... because of the awareness that this boy maybe has that he does not have a passion (yet?) that will take him out of that booming,…"
Amy Jaeger replied to Humanities Roundtable's discussion 'Reflections On...Being Asleep in America'
"In Franklin's Autobiography at the point where that quote was taken, he was a practicing vegetarian and he came to a moment while on a ship traveling and hungry where he was watching his shipmates catching cod. After they had their catch and…"
Amy Jaeger replied to Humanities Roundtable's discussion 'Reflections On...Being Asleep in America'
""So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do." Benjamin Franklin from The Autobiography"
Amy Jaeger replied to Humanities Roundtable's discussion 'Reflections On...Being Asleep in America'
"I just took a test on the University of Pennsylvania's website that promised to rate my personal level of happiness (yes, I really did google happiness!). I discovered that I am only about 37% happy. How sad. Ha-ha! Actually, I felt happier…"
Amy Jaeger replied to Humanities Roundtable's discussion 'Reflections On...Being Asleep in America'
"This discussion is really making me think hard! It feels good to do that, and to examine what this poem is about. I read it again, for the third time, and more questions came to mind. I feel like one of those faces under the water, drowning --…"
Amy Jaeger replied to Humanities Roundtable's discussion 'Reflections On...Being Asleep in America'
"Kim, great insight. I totally see your point. As we get older (or at least for some of us?) we need some things less -- outside entertainment and distraction, say -- than we did when we were younger. Makes sense to me, for myself at least. Like a…"
Amy Jaeger replied to Humanities Roundtable's discussion 'Reflections On...Being Asleep in America'
"This poem is interesting to me. A few years ago, my husband and I realized we felt "full" of all the stuff we owned, and we began to say more and more, "I don't need that." Now, as a small business owner, my livelihood…"
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