tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1188475136925632419.post557234972688829537..comments2013-01-09T08:13:21.929-08:00Comments on A tree-shaped tree: Snakes and Dragons: Breathing in order to Walk Down the StreetAllyisAVerbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12214865909497904194noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1188475136925632419.post-19333006436287914922011-07-31T01:40:35.911-07:002011-07-31T01:40:35.911-07:00Matty B. :)
I tried to jump back and kiss myself, ...Matty B. :)<br />I tried to jump back and kiss myself, but no luck :) I think that is James Brown's superpower, and his alone.<br />Diamond Lil is a friend from church... I love her. She is full of insight and groundedness and brilliance.<br />Can't wait to see you, and watch this movie. T-minus 23 days or so. With the time difference do I gain a day? :) Been re-reading Around the World in 80 days :) SoooOoo good. Also, in an amazing NGO that sets up traveling libraries ( http://www.banglapedia.org/httpdocs/HT/B_0541.HTM ), found a copy of The Idiot. Dostoevsky is so bleak he scares me, but I am checking it out anyway. Thank you for this delicious post... Hugs.AllyisAVerbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12214865909497904194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1188475136925632419.post-13952095682638992362011-07-28T18:17:13.842-07:002011-07-28T18:17:13.842-07:00Things I like about this blog:
It has pictures o...Things I like about this blog: <br /><br />It has pictures of you in it. Four of 'em, carnival photo-booth style! (Though I suppose to do it properly you'd have to kiss yourself, or your garment, or something.)<br /><br />It is lovely stuff. I've had so many of these same thoughts, and I really love the way you render 'em - so Kye-ly, such a pleasant mix of the high-minded and the bellyful.<br /><br />These fights remind me of the thing I was inevitably going to be reminded of today, because I want to talk about: this movie I saw called...well I don't know, it's "Copia Certificada" in Spanish, and it has Juliette Binoche in it, and this guy William Shimmel, and it's very excellent. Almost the entire movie you don't know what's happening. The whole thing is a conversation between two characters - initially, you think it's a writer and a fan, but then you realize (I think) that it's a couple that used to be married, but you're not really sure, not sure whether it's two people who've (for some reason) chosen to ACT like a former married couple or people who actually are. And there's this whole thing about copies and originals and why we like the latter more, etc. Watch it in t-minus 5 weeks when you get home. With me!<br /><br />Miss you.<br />LoveM<br /><br />PS Diamond Lil is that Lily Ross? I loved yer post.Matt B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07464931063038747776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1188475136925632419.post-84726894028956393782011-07-19T17:08:01.726-07:002011-07-19T17:08:01.726-07:00I love it :) Thank you for these insights. Infidel...I love it :) Thank you for these insights. Infidelity is right! Concerns are so different, priorities and problems so separate from what I consider to be my problems at home. Mystery, yes, and basic survival -- things that I might reference or think about in everyday life but don't truly wrestle with.<br />Here's to shedding our old skin :)<br />I hope you are sleeping better soon! Or getting in a lot of good reading, if not :)<br />XOXAllyisAVerbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12214865909497904194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1188475136925632419.post-36326753456366074712011-07-19T05:38:22.278-07:002011-07-19T05:38:22.278-07:00Kye, how beautiful you are in your new togs! Will ...Kye, how beautiful you are in your new togs! Will you wear them around HDS?! I can almost see the snakes and dragons, your companions, rising up in power and majesty behind you as they become your servants and not your masters . . . <br /><br />I've had some sleepless nights of late, wrestling my own reptilian brain. Around 3am the other night I found great comfort in an essay by the great travel writer Pico Iyer, about a monastery he goes to several times a year for a retreat. Like you, I have often worried that my nomadic nature was just escapism -- maybe that's why I've been itching to hit the road so badly of late. But Iyer captured what I actually feel and have never been able to explain, even to myself. <br /><br />He talks about going to his monastery as infidelity, a shadow story as all great myths are -- infidelity "against the life I know and the values by which we are suposed to live. I am being disloyal in the deepest way to the assumptions of the daily round, and daring to lay claim to a mystery at the heart of me. . . . No, the flight is TO something much larger than a sigle text or doctrine. It's to -- this the word I otherwise shy from -- eternity. I step into a place that never changes, and with it that part of me, that ground in me, that belongs to what is changeless. There is a self at the core of us -- what some call "Christ," others the "Buddha nature," and poets refer to as the immortal soul -- that is simply part of the non-shifting nature of the universe. Not in any exalted way: just like the soil or sky or air. It does not fit into our everyday notions any more than sky fits into a bed. But I steal into this better world as into a secret love, and there, as in the best of loves, I feel I am known in a way I know is true."<br /><br />Its so easy to become some version of ourselves when we settle in one place. And at some moment we chafe under it because it is not the real us, or not the whole us, or we get trapped in that persona and people don't want us to grow out of it or change. That's always when I want to hit the road. When I'm itching to shed my skin. Is that why snakes frighten us so? They remind us of the new, more powerful, more potent selves wanting to get out?<br /><br />Happy travels my luv!DiamondLilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16181410504023175296noreply@blogger.com