What Is The Purpose Of Life? (12-17-18)

A relative of the late poet Layeh Bock recently sent me the 1991 cassette tape I sent Layeh when I was 24yo and bed-ridden by Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (from 1988 to 1994) and on my way to converting to Orthodox Judaism. Layeh died October 2, 2018 and apparently this cassette tape was in her final possessions.

May 7, 1993: My new friend, Layeh Bock, writes to my stepmother Gill.

"I have recently made Luke's acquaintance, by tape/mail/telephone. He sent me a copy of the piece you'd written for your newsletter about his beliefs and values. That impressed me: it takes largeness and love to (1) see and (2) accept and (3) value our differences from the ones we love most. From parents to children, especially, that has a rareness that is sad.

Anyway, Mother's Day seems like the appropriate time to send you a note of congratulations. You have done an impressively good job with yor son: his earnestness, his openness, his curiosity, his sense of responsibility, and his openness to the reality of other human beings - all speak volumes for the many (innumerable as grainds of sand in the sea!) bits of doing-it-right that go into rearing a son to be a decent human being. That's especially noteworthy in this society of glitz, pretentious distractions, encouragements to self-hate bred with self-obsession, and glorified shallowness.

Whatever your part in forming Luke, you seem to have done one fantastically good job of it.... Thanks! Yes, in that (1) I believe that each of our acts makes the world more "that way," and so your rearing a good human being makes the world I share with you swing that much to the good; and (2) the man you reared that way can now be a valuable friend."

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