畫像1 畫像2

遊民畫家泊仔送的畫像,在左圖中白鳥的右下方,就是他自己。

  我想我是一個認真的人,有時候到了嚴肅的地步。還記得剛入小學的第一課就是ㄅㄆㄇㄈ,老師說下週要考,可是一週過去了,我還沒全學會,急得不得了,回家就發燒了,媽媽還得幫我惡補。下星期老師竟然完全忘了考試這回事!而我至今餘悸猶存。
  最近一位好友退休,她在嚴肅這件事上比我更勝一籌,在我們為她舉行的餐會中一絲不苟地討論未來生活的意義,我勸她不必急,不妨先混一混。李豐(寫《我賺了四十年》的那位台大醫師)在電話上聽了我的轉述,大笑道:「你混得怎樣?」我說:「不錯啊!」她卻不以為然:「我聽妳聲音就知道妳還是那樣,說話太快了!」幾十年來她一直勸我慢下來。慢才能品味生活,才能靜攬人生,才能修鍊身心。
  不僅需要調整步調,我也想改變自己的寫作風格,輕鬆一點,閒適一點,更多一點生活,多一點感覺。渴望有自己的部落格,不被字數、時尚、市場、刊物風格、主編好惡綁住。大部分是為自己寫吧,也為了分享,至於未來,就交給上天了。 email: yenlinku@mail2000.com.tw
 

2012-09-17

從一件死亡看台灣虛幻的道德



台灣許多媒體報導五十三歲葉鳳珠病患陳屍家中的道德譴責方式令人不安,以頭條新聞誇大而一面倒的指摘兒子、媳婦不肖,惡意遺棄更令人懷疑,而檢方聲押獲准的處理方式也讓人感慨。顯然地,廉價和容易的道德武器在台灣處處站上風,葉鳳珠罹患的是亨丁頓舞蹈症,她的死亡無可避免,是解脫,不具名的醫學中心內部消息指出她的醫師對葉鳳珠的媳婦充滿同情,多年來葉鳳珠一直由媳婦陪同到醫院看病。

To Shulie: With Whom It All Began


Shulamith Firestone died last month. http://nplusonemag.com/     
I met Shulie at the National Conference for New Politics, held in Chicago over the Labor Day weekend in 1967. It was an unsuccessful attempt to unite the organized Left behind a presidential ticket that would campaign against the war in Viet Nam. A couple women who were not themselves part of the Left had persuaded the conference organizers to give them some space for a women’s caucus. Black caucuses at such meetings were common and accepted, but one for women was by itself radical.
Shulie was one of about four dozen women who met daily to hammer out a resolution that called attention to women’s issues – equal pay, childcare, abortion on demand and other things that today don’t seem very radical. She didn’t say much, but what she did say stuck in my mind. I would now characterize her views as radical feminism uncontaminated by left-wing rhetoric – something that one didn’t often encounter in those days.