This is rather worse poetry than the last one, but it adds a little perspective.
I want to turn cartwheels and fly and slide down stairs headfirst -
Not for any reason, not because I am happy (or sad, for that matter)
Just because
The world goes swinging around the sun,
And I go swinging through life
Up and down, up and down.
Sometimes I see - I think I see - the pattern to all the woven strands
Of life, the world, existence and time
"Eureka!" I yell, and then it's gone.
Like a child, it runs away when I say I've found it
Like snow, it melts when I grab it
Hide-and-seek is more fun when everyone wants to play
I watch in silent wonder and the universe opens to me
But I must remember to not grow too sure of its compliance
Or it will slam its doors in my face.
Pi has a pattern and so has music
The kind you can see, but not predict
Like life.
In balance, out of balance
in again, out again, Michael Finnegan
So it goes.
The Two Kinds of Moderate
1 year ago
12 comments:
Hey there, I'm swingin your way soon! The world is not as big as we thought.
Wow, that was cheesy!
Man oh man Crystal. We are NOT waiting until next Summer to have another good conversation, okay?
I just wrote in my journal, "I don't think I've really gotten over Camp Hope yet."
And Michaela is always saying that for breif slivers of time she can grasp all the strands of the big picture, and it all seems to fit together like a puzzel, but then it disapears again. That's what the "Eurika!" part of your post reminded me of. And it's so true! Life life life. Oh boy.
@Lucy: Cheesiness is also allowed on my blog. But I disagree. The world is bigger than I thought, anyway.
@Em: :-D We need to actually plan to hang out together sometime. Lol at the journal entry - great minds think alike. Or should I amend that to Camp Hopies think alike?
This post is related to the one I wrote titled "Coincidences." And I don't think what I grasp really is the totality of what's going on, merely a part of it, but it's so much more than I normally understand that it seems like the whole thing.
I am into random questions lately. Therefore, Random Question of the Day: Does it bother anyone else that when you click 'comment' the screen suddenly changes from whatever color the person's blog is to plain ugly white (and no comments on white being ugly or not. That IS a synesthesia thing.)?
No, it doesn't bother me, because I like white. And I like the uniformity of it, for some reason.
Yes, we should actually plan something. I keep meaning to email you. I've just got a huge back-logged list of things to do online after vacation!
By the way, because it was an old post and I'm not sure you'll see my reply comment of I put it there- I totally agree with you about Fantasy worldviews. It's the same conclusion I've been comming to. Like the Inheritence trillogy (have you read those??)- if you read them carefully, you can find a very postmodernist and new-age worldview behind them, even though it's set in an alternative world. I haven't thought much about it, but I wonder if Lord of the Rings and Narnia would have a semi-Christian/Catholic worldview behind them?
I would have gotten your comment, but yeah. Haven't read Paolini. Yes, Narnia, LOTR, and Lewis' space trilogy, which I've been recently rereading with great enjoyment, are Christian(/Catholic for Tolkien's stuff). And Star Trek is liberal/progressive utopian. And Babylon 5 (another sci-fi show) is more conservative, definitely not utopian, and sort of anti-government, but still has elements of a liberal ethical philosophy. And Lloyd Alexander's stuff all tries to say the same thing, and that's why the characters and plot are always similar, but I keep reading his books because he disguises the real message so carefully that I haven't quite figured it out yet. It gets a little clearer with each book...
I love the stuff that I've read by Lloyd Alexander, I should find more of it. But no, I didn't have any idea of what his message was either.
Obviously you've put some serious thought into this, and I'm just showing up on the scene now. :-)
Sooo... not that I MIND long comments, but they do kind of give away the fact that you DO have stuff to post about. :-P
But see, the problem is that I'm a non-literary introvert that spends way too much time thinking about the same things over and over, and they stay inside me and digest, often for years, until someone says something about the subject and finally I realize that I have something to say about it. And the things that I really want to say are themes that run through my life for about six month periods, and for some reason you want posts more often than that. ;-) All the little things that everyone else seems to want to hear about are not quite as interesting to me.
But I may try to post something soon.
eh, I screwed that up. Non-verbal introvert, not non-literary introvert. Obviously.
Hum interesting. Well you don't HAVE to post, we just like it when you do. :-)
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