This will be a lot more like a meditation if you go read Luke 10: 30-37 first. Otherwise, it’ll just seem like a brilliant bit of television writing from Aaron Sorkin, but you make your own choices.
Leo: [after Josh finishes an intensive therapy session set up by Leo with a trauma therapist, Josh walks past Leo in a nearby hallway of the White House] How'd it go?
Josh: Did you wait around for me?
Leo: How'd it go?
Josh: He thinks I might have an eating disorder.
Leo: Josh . . .
Josh: And a fear of rectangles. That's not weird is it? [Pause] I didn't cut my hand on a glass. I broke a window in my apartment.
Leo: This guy's walking down the street when he falls into a hole. The walls are so steep he can't get out. A doctor passes by and the guy shouts up, “Hey can you help me?” The doctor writes a prescription and throws it down in the hole and moves on. Then a priest comes along and the guy shouts up, “Father, I'm down in this hole can you help me out?” The priest writes down a prayer, throws it down in the hole and moves on. Then a friend walks by. The guy shouts up, “Hey Joe it's me — can you help me out?” and the friend jumps down in the hole. Our guy says, “Are you stupid — now we're both down here!?" The friend says, “Yeah, but I've been down here before and I know the way out.” [Pause] As long as I got a job, you got a job, you understand?
West Wing, Season 2 Episode 10
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I know in this pandemic, togetherness and hope are fleeting, but let’s find ways to go and do likewise.
Elin Glenn
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