“Longing, we say, because desire is full
of endless distances.”

30 April 2010

"But paradise is locked and bolted… We must make a journey around the world to see if a back door has perhaps been left open."

 wet dream courtesy of libraryland

(what i got accomplished today.  go me.)


i grew up listening to willie nelson.  my father had all the lps.  a very clear childhood memory of mine is riding on my fathers shoulders, i was four maybe, and him singing Pancho and Lefty,  the Outlaw version.  i worked at a diner where i got to play Red Headed Stranger over and over again.  i married a man my father instantly named Willie, for his aspect similarity.  Willie is an american institution, and it will be a less perfect union when he leaves it.



 




 my heart gets all soft and mushy listening to Willie.  that entirely singular jazz sincerity.  that personal childhood familiarity.  the way Cowboy just ends up looking more and more like him every day, with a little Merle (and his M&M flip-top) in there for good measure.  you see Willie and Merle and it makes me feel the same way i felt seeing that photo of Kurt Vonnegut and Tom Wolfe.  the worlds within those men.  the lifetimes.  were all just dust and blood, an electrical current running through intelligent cells, and blessed to have these highplains philosophers to inspire us to be better than we are right now.  like Willie said, forgive your enemies.  it messes with their heads.  happy birthday, high priest.



"So far 1,698 Kindle users have underlined this passage from Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell: 
"three things--autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward--are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying."


 the whole electronic book thing escapes me.  im struggling right now with wanting the words to sound a certain way and just saying what wants said.  ive heard the Byrds cover of Wild Mountain Thyme twice this week, having never heard it before.  Beltane is a-cummin' in.  i remember you asking after my plans.  these photos taken in the creek houseby.  i dont want to hear ryan adams sing wonderwall for a long time.  went out and dug more dandelions, cool in the house hot in the yard.  i love the easy rumpled stinky human household have we.   the lighthanded laissez-faire living reached by silent consensus the day we rearrived.  its ridiculous, it might as well be fun, cf. yonder ruler rant.  my boys are so good to me, always smiling in my eyes, hands rubbing my heart like a bird in the hand, the faces i love more than any the eyes and hands that are all their own that i know them by.  sometimes altogether in the ship of night and how more perfect and beautiful can life be? 


"The Internet is full of old growlers, of course, and if you opine on public issues, you'll get anonymous mail calling you a baby-killer, torturer, tool of Satan, cat strangler and babbling idiot, which you accept as your due, like the static electricity you collect walking across a carpet. A slight shock, but it doesn't turn on any lightbulbs."

and when i said i didnt give a f**k i didnt mean id go around hauling off on everyone i just meant i cant bear laying down any more along the ruler youve got there to measure me up, assess my dimensions, if ill fit like a loveseat in the corner of the room instead of a ficus or whatever.  what i meant was im not even going to acknowledge the ruler whatsoever at all.  show me a straight line out in the wildwood.  show me a straight line on you, for that matter.  we are the wildwood and rulers are what oncelers make of our suchness after were cut down.  flowers in water are being deceived.


"Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them."

 ten for today:

1.  willie!
2.  this, definitely.
3.  trees!
4.  this ones for cowboy.
5.  this blog!
6.  ryan adams.
7.  wilco!
8.  liberation through major appliances
9.  coffee!
10. the shifting tide of consciousness

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For many the egg yolk prevails." -L.M.

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-John Sandes, The Earth-Mother (excerpt, 1918)