!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.