Anne’s Diary (Page 34)

There are a lot of things I don’t like about Los Angeles–too spread out, too hard to make friends here–but one of the things I DO like is being among so-called "secular Jews" once again. I lived with these people in New York City and I find them delightful: They don’t try to "convert" you, they are interested in the arts and support them enthusiastically, and they love intellectual ideas. They’re A BIT tribal (you’ll always do better with them if you’re Jewish too), but not too much.
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Nine years ago, Whitley and I exchanged Valentine’s on our website. I wrote a diary and he wrote a journal, and neither of us knew what the other had written until we posted them and then–we discovered we had written about the same thing: The time when Whitley first told me about his close encounter experience, and also our joyously improbable first meeting—through an early computer dating service in 1969! To read all about it, click here.read more

A man killed himself today. Although I’d only met him a couple of times, I think I know why he did it: He met up with the same "mild" Satanic figure that we did, but in his case, he couldn’t crawl out of the hole again.

Evil doesn’t always rampage–it doesn’t always call attention to itself in the dramatic style of the horrible villains of history, such as Adolf Hitler and Kim Jong-Il. Sometimes it tiptoes stealthily into the room.
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Now that our troops are finally leaving Iraq (and will soon, hopefully, be departing from Afghanistan), it’s time to reflect on the fact that the 20th (and now the 21st) centuries have been so filled with fighting. Interestingly enough, scientists tell us that humans are not DESIGNED to go to war: When it comes to "fight or flight," we are programmed for "flight." This is what has led to our continuance as a species.
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