This Tuesday morning my wife pulled me aside and read a writing by Aristotle about his theory of tragedy.  He says the reason that people are motivated to entertain themselves with tragic drama is to experience and purge themselves of the feelings and motives that they have but dare not indulge in real life.  He said that by doing this we purge ourselves of these feelings and thus achieve some form of purification or purgation.

I had a very hard time motivating myself to do math today and was disappointed that I only did one chapter and a quiz.

I realized that Monday night at the meeting I felt uptight.  I thought about how sometimes I dare not reveal that I don't feel well to people when they ask how I am doing for fear of inviting criticism of my spiritual program.   But if I get better at understanding and describing my state then I don't need to worry about.  When I feel tense, I usually know whether it is serious or not but I don't reveal it when it is not because others may misinterpret it.

This evening I mainly handled the kids.

Thanks be to God.