Tuesday morning

Thinking about things:

The word FORGE is almost the word FORGET.

I came to this notion yesterday in the early afternoon. I was talking on the phone with a dear dear friend. And, I was looking at the collection of images I have gathered and pasted [with purpose and care] on the wall above my desk; most especially, the chalk board with its calligraphied lettering [by me] of the word FORGE.

We were discussing the notion of hurt [feeling hurt] and how I/people experience hurt all the time [as she put it] and how I/people respond to such/these feelings. I was trying to figure out about my hurt [feeling hurt] and how this hurt [ that is feeling hurt] affects the way I think about myself and others, and how I carry myself with this hurt in this world of mine.

[It should be noted that I did not explain this newfound FORGE / FORGET idea to my dear friend during our conversation. I wanted to think about it for a while, to try to discover what it might mean. These kind of associative awarenesses are quite shrinky, you know. I will talk with her about this today to see what interpretations we can come up with.]

Just so you know:

Forge: to advance steadily, advance gradually, press on, push on, soldier on, march on, push forward, make progress, make headway.

Forget: fail to remember, fail to recall, fail to think of: leave behind, fail to take/bring; put out of one's mind, shut out, not worry about, take no notice of; abandon.

I wonder whether I/people forget/fail to remember/ABANDON feeling hurt and, in turn, what becomes of it.

I have also been thinking about the word INTERSTICE.

I found this word INTERSTICE in a review of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand. This word has great metaphorical possibilities for understanding the way we think about ourselves and how we place ourselves in the world. I have been wondering about such small spaces as those that exist [metaphorically speaking] between people when they are in conversation with each other.

INTERSTICE: A space, especially a small or narrow one, between things or parts; a space between disciplines; an intervening space; an interval between actions.

PERHAPS interstice is a space between simplicity [emotion/reaction/response] and reason [thought/awareness/discernment] that we must pause to recognize and understand.