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CHASING THE LIGHT
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intended, distract Doris’s boyfriend while Ross’s friend, Mark, sweeps Doris onto the dance floor. Ross is acting on Mark’s (joking?) comment months earlier, that Doris was the woman he would marry.
A moment’s choice had momentous effects because Doris and Mark had the cour- age to use their sacred privi- lege to deviate from same ol’.
’ m going to steal your girlfriend!” Ross’s words, as
After a ballroom dance, Doris learns there’s joy to be had and adventure to be found in deviating from the same old routine.
Japanese-American girl bred to avoid conflict, she doesn’t want to hurt the guy she’s been dating. By comparison, Mark is a dark horse in an unexpect- ed race. In her quandary, she can’t sleep and loses weight. Mark suggests some consider- ations: After good years with her current boyfriend, why fix what isn’t broken? Choosing Mark would mean significant separation while he’s in Isra- el. The more Mark “helps,” the fonder Doris becomes of him, and the harder it seems to stay with same ol’ , same ol’, the way she thinks she is supposed to.
Renée Tillotson is director of Still & Moving Center in Kaka‘ako. She has studied the teachings of theosophy for over four decades, and appre- ciates that it draws on com- mon themes from the world’s great traditions — religious, philosophic and scientific.
Chasing The Light is pro- duced by Robin Stephens Rohr and Lynne Johnson.
Doris was “dragged” to this class by her boyfriend of five years; Mark signed up simply to bide time before departing for medical school in Israel. Both trajectories are about to get rattled.
While Mark is in Israel, he and Doris share details about their childhoods and youth and hopes for the future (in 1,275 letters and in $1.25-per-min- ute phone calls). You actually come to know a person better that way than by seeing a movie or having dinner, Mark claims.
Trajectories Reconsidered
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It’s just the nudge Doris needs to make a decision she’s never regretted; she breaks up with her boyfriend.
might not have turned out that way.
Fill in the blank cells using numbers 1 to 9. Each number can appear only once in each row, column, and 3x3 block. Use logic and process of elimination to solve the puzzle. The difficulty level ranges from Bronze (easiest) to Silver to Gold (hardest). Answers are on page 10
RATING: SILVER
As Mark swirls Doris around the ballroom, his ele- gant spins and swoops wrap her heart around his. By the time the teacher snaps, “Time to switch partners!” Doris is smitten by the dancing Prince Charming.
Finally, Mark’s friend Ross speaks up: “Mark really is the kind, compassionate, funny guy you think he is.”
Eventually, married and living in New York City, they welcome an infant son, then face the terror of smell- ing smoke from the Twin Towers on 9/11. Ultimately, they are grateful to have held hands with the one they love through that anguish. But it
Now Doris faces a dilem- ma. A traditionally raised
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