Oh me-oh-my-oh, would you look at Ms. Manhattan
Reading Seneca tonight. "On the Shortness of
Life."
Quite a bible.
More on that
later.
Also revisiting older decades, and
trying to live up (ironically; or, perhaps, to live down) to something my father
said, in reference to a Gillian Welch album (Soul Journey) that he, too, has
fallen for... I started to bring her up at dinner awhile back, as far as lyrics
I identify with, and he interjected with the words from her first track
--
"Yeah, I want to do right, but not
right now."
That wasn't what I had been
going for -- I was, obviously, thinking of "Back in Time" -- but it gave me
quite a pause. Reflecting on it, an even greater pause -- the actions in my life
seem to be advancing so quickly in these last few weeks -- perhaps a response to
the molasses pace of recent months? -- that it seems to be pushing me into a new
paradigm. I welcome it; it is the sign of a new era. The "right now" seems to be
coming to a close. And tonight I don't know what to do with it, as I haven't
been able to all week. Where am I? I can't trust my instincts. At least not
right now.
"Life is long if you know how
to use it."
Kunst ist lang.
Posted: Sunday - March 11, 2007 at 06:29 AM
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