Aquarius Horoscope for week of February 23, 2006
There was an indignant uproar after revelations that James Frey's bestselling memoir A Million Little Pieces contains fabrications. Hearing about it prompted me to ruminate on whether there's any such thing as a completely accurate account of any person's life. My conclusion: no. In every autobiography and biography ever written, the author imaginatively strings together selectively chosen details to conjure up artificially coherent narratives rather than depict the crazy-quilt ambiguity that actually characterizes everyone's journey. If you and nine writers set out to tell your life story, you'd produce ten wildly different tales, each rife with subjective interpretation, misplaced emphasis, unintentional distortions, and exorbitant extrapolations from insufficient data. Your assignment this week, Aquarius, is to celebrate the malleability of reality. Regale listeners with stories about the time you worked as a pirate in the Indian Ocean, or rode the rails through Kansas as a hobo, or gave Donald Trump sage advice in an elevator.
Get on freewillastrology.com. It's worth the laugh. Scarily, it can be true sometimes. Even though I am post call tonight (and took a 20 minute nap at 6am), I think I need to go out tonight, break some cabin fever. I may spend the night coming up with as many tales as possible..
So, I was a black cloud again last night. 6 admissions! We'd been averaging 1 a day, occasionally 2, and yesterday a whopping 6, 3 of which were transports that I did. So, from 3pm til 1am I was mostly out of the hospital picking up kiddos. People are glad I only have one call left in the NICU!
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