When the woman caught in adultery shows up the next day, the teacher who has saved her life becomes “a book too difficult to read”:
So, I thought I had to become more than I was, more than
I’d been.
but that wasn’t it. It seemed rather that
something had to go. Something had to be let go of.
— Patty and I have great memories of the music of pianist Keiko Matsui. She has said that one of her primary gifts as a musician and a composer is knowing what to leave out.
Letting go of what I let go of instead of showing up with it again and again. Is this not trusting that he took it away or just not able to let go of the guilt?
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