Saturday Memory for October 24, 2026
October
24
My book, Psyche Speaks, is dedicated to Allen Siegel, at seventeen, outside the House of Donuts, Forty-Second and Madison Avenue, New York City, October 24, 1981…right before my eyes. I’ll never forget this.
You entered the tableau, wanted or not. Stepped into the frame of that numinous and unwanted moment. Reminds me of Roland Barthes. That moment, forever captured on film, in the newspaper, for God’s sake, and though the world changed on this earthly plane for that young man, that moment has also not changed in your mind’s eye. Those moments are precious. Look at the etymology. Precious: valuable, costly, beloved.
Yes. Beloved. Think on that for a moment. He became your beloved.