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(Jane called last night. Today was cold — 22 degrees when I left for 330. I stopped at the bank to buy money orders to pay bills. No one had taken Jane’s temperature this morning, since it had dropped back to normal range. After lunch Jane told me that Steve and Tracy had sent her a telegram Sunday night, saying they couldn’t make it for a variety of reasons. She’d forgotten to tell me.

(3:15. Jane finished reading the session, and had done quite well. At 3:55 a student took her blood pressure, which was good. Jane was ready for the session early. She decided not to wait for temperature.

Ruburt once wrote a poem about a nail on a window sill. He endowed the nail with consciousness and self-awareness. Now every nail is indeed in its own way responsive to stimuli. It acts and reacts. A nail may not choose to jump down from a window still and dance about the room, but a nail is indeed aware of the room, of the window sill, and aware of the temperature on both sides of the window. The atoms and molecules that compose the nail possess their own lively consciousnesses. Their motion is directed by electrons, so that within itself the nail actually experiences constant motion. Indeed, a dance is executed of great symmetry and rhythm. The nail, then, is indeed filled with its own sense of self-approval.

(4:45. Dorothy took Jane’s temperature — 99.3. After she left Jane said, “See, instead of trusting my body I’m mad because my temperature is up again like that …”