2月4日
Thoreau's Journal: 3-Feb-1859
Five minutes before 3 P.M., Father died. [The above sentence (with the date) has a full page to itself in the original Journal] After a sickness of some two years, going down-town in pleasant weather, doing a little business from time to time, hoeing a little in the garden, etc., Father took to his chamber January 13th and did not come down again. Most of the time previously he had coughed and expectorated a great deal. Latterly he did not cough, but continued to raise. He continued to sit up in his chamber till within a week before he died. He sat up for a little while on the Sunday four days before he died. Generally he was very silent for many months. He was quite conscious to the last, and his death was so easy that we should not have been aware that he was dying, though we were sitting around his bed, if we had not watched very closely. I have touched a body which was flexible and warm, yet tenantless,—warmed by what fire? When the spirit that animated some matter has left it, who else, what else, can animate it? How enduring are our bodies, after all! The forms of our brothers and sisters, our parents and children and wives, lie still in the hills and field around about us, not to mention those of our remoter ancestors, and the matter which composed the body of our first human father still exists under another name. When in sickness the body is emaciated, and the expression of the face in various ways is changed, you perceive unexpected resemblances to other members of the same family; as if within the same family there was a greater similarity in the framework of the face than in its filling up and clothing. Father first came to this town to live with his father about the end of the last century…
梭羅父親過逝... 三年後,梭羅也死了...
我幫不少債務人辦理聲請更生,經法院裁准更生方案後,法院會對債務人的生活有所限制,包括不准出國旅遊。有不少債務人會特別問我是否真的不能出國。在台灣這個相對富足溫暖的國度,雖然我們對政府有諸多不滿;然而,在平常的日子裡,一個明智而理性的人,除了一碗白飯,幾根蕃薯,或者煮熟的玉米抹上點鹽,還有什麼好要求的?
(2013)
瘟疫蔓延。如果可以去傳統市場,就別去大賣場。如果可以請防疫照顧假,就不要把孩子送去安親班。如果沒什麼要緊事,便把可放的假放一放。和朋友遇上了,不必急著要走,反正沒什麼事。把腳步放緩,曬曬太陽,過一下真實的生活;等疫情趨緩,再決定以後怎麼過。
防疫的功夫綿密入微,非一般專業所能企及,至少有下列十項要點: 1. 過去疫情資料必須掌握。 2. 未來可能情況要能預估。 3. 現在情勢必須控制。 4. 隔離被感染及可能遭感染病患。 5. 消滅傳染病原。 6. 檢疫圍堵徹底,不漏任一環節。 7. 防疫政策必須柔和,不能有人道問題。 8. 防疫人員必須能忍,不可洩漏機密。 9. 防疫人員不能有任何疏忽,致自身感染。 10. 必要時不顧身命,也不能為了求生讓防疫有了破口。
(2020)
因為修行嗌關係,自身心理造成嗌苦惱愈來愈少,生理造成嗌苦痛對心理嗌影響也愈來愈少。對別人所受嗌苦,不管是心理嗌,或者是生理嗌,毋庸親身經歷,就可以感受嗌著。因為阿哖,可以知曉世界其他所在,因為疫情嗌關係,都真艱苦;也對台灣嗌情形,感覺欣慰、滿足。
(2021)
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