Lying in Bed by Mark Harris

Author:Mark Harris
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2014-05-10T16:52:48+00:00

FROM: Haddock Hooper, D. D.,

Learning Together West, Shoestring Ranch

Carefree, Arizona.

Enclosure: descriptive pamphlets

February 27

Dear Lee,

Our mutual friend, Dr. Halina Schiff, has urged me to be in touch with you.

I want to invite you out to see us, and for us to see you, whom I have not seen as often over the years as I'd have liked. I remember lunching with you on your campus some years ago at the height of a commotion or crisis related to the war, and I have heard that you have written excellent works on topics of interest to me, as described by our good mutual friend, Halina Schiff. She reminded me on the phone just yesterday that it was you who created the slogan “Nobody Wins a Race,” which inspired us through the Swim With the Sharks campaign. I am eagerly looking forward to meeting you again.

I pray that you will accept my invitation. I hear from Dr. Schiff that you have been having a bit of trouble with something you call “impotence.” We have never called it that here. If we come here feeling that way we get over it as soon as possible, with as little delay as possible, since we do not feel it is in the interest of our human community to live that way. Our system is to release feelings of frustration and unproductivity, replacing them with feelings of pleasure and sympathetic strength.

Since receiving Dr. Schiff's call I have been meditating on your “problem,” as people call it. Tonight at our Round Table we agreed that a “problem” is basically an opportunity. For every “problem” good friends create a solution, replacing a negative condition with a positive. In the process we learn more about ourselves and about anybody else who might have encountered the same “problem.” Every “problem” gives us the opportunity to see the world in just a slightly different way than we have been seeing it before, telling us what it means to be in “somebody else's shoes.” Many people will agree with me when I opine that the whole “problem” of the world is our inability to see other people's points of view, our blindness in failing to recognize other people's realities. We often think that only “our kind of people” feel pain. My eye often falls on a bark painting presented to us by one of our fine Native American neighbors. The painting speaks this legend: “No person on earth feels less than you."

Many of these positive ideas about life are pondered in my book. Any Cure is the Right Cure, a copy of which is being sent to you. When I reflect upon the period when I was writing this book I remember with special warmth my closeness at that time to Dr. Schiff, who was my editorial assistant. She and I first became acquainted when she was a student at Learning Together East. From her I often heard your name. Hoping to be a writer, she had studied with you before her residence at Learning Together East.

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