https://youtu.be/CYTRQAy2o4E?feature=shared Say what you will about the obvious overtones of the hypocrisies inherent in colonialism, proselytization, and, well, "mission work," but this scene perfectly embodies and characterizes certain truths that are, nonetheless, universal. * While this claim is, of course, "subjective," that is, also, PRECISELY why it is true.
Month: January 2025
On the Truth and Power of “Free-Association”
Actual photo taken by me. One of two places of any "significance" I've ever been, unless, of course, you count them all. Yesterday my soul slipped into the sea, It buoyed there a while and cried for you and me. That soulless surface scarred, it dredged the deepest dream, it swelled the strangest sigh... Yesterday … Continue reading On the Truth and Power of “Free-Association”
“Redemption Song”
https://youtu.be/_GFjM_ekXAg?feature=shared "I never really heard that song until I heard Sinéad O'Connor sing it." - Timothy Kelly, "For You, a Love Story" (unpublished)
“Good vs. Bad”
The bad in ME is the BAD in YOU, SIMPLY, because, it must be. Otherwise, how could I BE? To BE is to be good... But I can, ONLY, be good if I am good, and, therefore, not bad, BUT I AM BAD, and YOU ARE GOOD, therefore, for ME to be good, YOU need … Continue reading “Good vs. Bad”
“…Stay.”
For “Geri”
"Enlightened Witness." A Prayer for EasterEstherPrayerPshawPshawYour prayers.P-Shaw.I’ll give you a prayer.Pshaw.I am your neighbor.I am your friend.I don’t need your prayers.Don’t pray to me.Don’t pray for me.I’m a public,Don’t you see.We don’t need your prayers.Prayers.Pshaw.Pshaw.Pshaw.Now, friends, they’re a different thing.Esther.Friend.Geri.Geraldine.Friend.Easter.Pshaw.Esther,Friend.We’ll rise again,In love with you, my friend.Esther.Geri.Geraldine.Amen.
“…Please…”
On “Suffering”
"Strength to Love." According to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in "Pilgrimage to Nonviolence," his final essay in Strength to Love, "I have lived these last few years with the conviction that unearned suffering is redemptive." However, according to Alice Miller, psychologist, philosopher, and psychoanalyst, all behavior stems from childhood experience, at least in … Continue reading On “Suffering”
“Ash…”
The ArtistThe brush strokes are genius.An act of genius.An act.Not an act.But an Act.Action.Discernment.Pride.An act of discerning pride in another.Not the other.ButAnOther.Your soul mate.Your soul.But she’s blindso she doesn’t know.She’s been blindedby that pride.Their pride.Not the Pridethat she has,the Pride of a Lion.But the pride of vengeance for the Pride she shownAt the first breath…She … Continue reading “Ash…”
Observations from the Brink 