Now that I think of it, going to church is also meeting people “as a couple”. That is to say you have the relationship, it not that you don’t care about the acquaintances you make, on the contrary, they add something, but you wouldn’t expect all of them. Perhaps the prominent authors of the twentieth century overemphasized their literary circles and atmospheres- perhaps their beltristic literatures.
I did take an online course on Western Film which I believe included Red River and Stagecoach.
Any New Years resolution would include going back to studying online- my online courses were before CoVid 19.
Right now is a week before Christmas, my wife was thrilled to be back at her desk as a church librarian in downtown Boston, but after checking out books on Theology for five weeks in a row we had to miss last week- so maybe I can swerve my studying and or writing a little more as an observing her.
I have had two online professors not connected with the church film videos there-it is adjacent to a grave yard where Sam Adams, Paul Revere, John Hancock and Treat Paine are buried. I am in good company going over my notes on the sermon while she is busy with her patrons. Before writing more on the story of the actor I knew from the film Chelsea Girls, my having met him by coincidence shortly after taking an online course on the director of that particular art film from a university in Scotland or the painter who went to our church that also has passed away since, or how fortuitous it was to meet my online professors in poetry-I was in fact having a conversation about radio and dropped the name of William Conrad when the conversation turned to Surfing . I found out I was talking to a world champion that appeared in the film Pacific VIbrations.
This years writing can go back into online courses and then back out of them into literature and it’s analysis.
My wife is busy spending the night calling me Mr. Schmuck while Christmas eve draws near to coming.
