[joe-frank-list] 'Terminal'

[russellbell at gmail.com]

	Larry tells Joe about his fantasy life when he eats: he
imagines being an FBI investigator in the case of Gary Condit
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Condit) and the disappearance of
Chandra Levy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandra_Levy) and another
in which he imagines he's a smart detective who plays dumb, hoping
that will place the suspect off-guard.
	4:10: Jack Kornfield describes Abraham Maslow's
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Maslow) hierarchy of human
needs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs).
It placed spirituality at the top; Kornfield disagrees, says it's more
important.
	6:00: Zachary tells Joe about a security guard running him and
his buddy off from drinking in a building hallway.
	6:40: Larry tells Joe he doesn't care about Zachary's
drinking.
	7:30: Joe tells Larry that Zachary is copying Larry's
behavior, that Zachary is angry with Larry because of Larry's
behavior.  Larry defends his drinking.
	12:50: Larry quotes Walter Savage Landor's
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Savage_Landor) 'Dying Speech of
an Old Philosopher'
(https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44562/dying-speech-of-an-old-philosopher):

	'I strove with none, for none was worth my strife: 
	Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art: 
	I warm'd both hands before the fire of Life;
	It sinks; and I am ready to depart.'

except Larry says 'It stinks', and means it.  (Does he misremember?
Freudianly slip?  Do it deliberately?)
	15:10: Larry recurs to his performance in 'Comedy of errors'
in 'Shakespeare in the park' (1975).  Joe says Larry failed because of
his drinking and drug use.  Larry disputes this.
	16:50: Joe takes a brief call from Kristine McKenna on
call-waiting, makes an appointment.
	17:20: Kornfield remembers doing walking meditation in the
dark in the forest when he was at the monastery in southeast Asia, the
loving-kindness meditation, blessing all beings; he explains why the
Buddha invented it.
	21:30: Kristine McKenna tells Joe about taking him to the
emergency department.  After delaying treatment with the usual
paperwork they eventually figured out he was bleeding in the stomach,
had lost 2 pints.  Joe disagrees with her description of his behavior.
Joe thought he might have been dying, couldn't think of anyone close
to call.  He noticed how he felt close to the nurses who took care of
him, his roommate Roy.  But on the ride home he was dismayed that his
angry habits returned.
	32:30: Kornfield says that what matters at the end of life is
whether we loved well.
	33:50: Larry tells Joe he got in trouble because he left an
e-mail to Marilyn (the woman he had an affair with in 'Karma, part 4',
called in 'The box'.) open on his computer - Jolly saw it, suggested
he move to California and live with her.
	37:20: David Rapkin tells Joe imagining an alternative life
sailing alone around the world, waxes poetic.
	40:00: Larry and Joe argue about whether Larry is responsible
for his failure.
	49:40: Kornfield talks about the blessing of mercy.
	51:30: Sharon, on the phone with Joe, tells him about this
person who showed up at her house, wanting to use the bathroom - it's
Larry.  She let him in and he wants to stay.  She won't let him stay.
(When Joe appeared on a fund-raiser on WFMU he said they hired an
actress to play this, that it's fictional.)
	53:30: Kornfield tells about his good friend Michael Harner,
an exponent of shamanic practice
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Harner) communing with a
bristlecone pine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristlecone_pine), the
world's oldest living things, older than 4,000 years, what he learns
from it - then quotes Rilke
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Maria_Rilke), 'Being alive means
not numbering or counting but ripening like a tree which doesn't force
its sap and stands in the storms of spring not afraid that summer may
not come - it does come, it always comes.'  ('Letters to a young poet'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_to_a_Young_Poet)

	From the broadcast, 'You've been listening to Joe Frank "The
other side".  This program was called "Terminal" with Larry Block,
Kristine McKenna, David Rapkin, Sharon O'Connell, Buddhist teacher
Jack Kornfield, and Joe Frank - production by Ray Guarna, production
assistance Esme Gregson - special thanks to Callie Rose'
	The credits on joefrank.com don't mention Sharon O'Connell; I
figure she's the actress he hired for the penultimate segment.

	http://jfwiki.org/index.php?title=Terminal

	The bristlecone pines are wonderful.  You can see them in the
White Mountains of California.

russell bell