Sean/Thoughtworm is brilliant:
"I learned to never neglect the space between
the words we speak. For it is often there where the most is spoken, if
you can listen. When the urgency of communication grows like cancer,
we can use words sparingly as a salve instead of drowning with a
torrent of speech. I am less afraid now to speak my mind, but
sometimes it is just not necessary. Other times it is. Knowing when
becomes the pivot. Walking in the woods can be good exercise for
this. Silence measured in footfalls, by insects at work, and birds
embroiled in unknown domestic matters. Quiet can be loud, or awkward,
but also simple and right. Pause. Listen. Then, perhaps, speak."
Coalesces and congeals...
and memories
of yesterday, grocering,
laughing with my dad, rummy with my mom,
crosswords, feeding the dog London broil,
singing in Hebrew, planning the ethereal music album I want
to create with the family,
watching the Grand Ol' Opry.
and this knot in my stomach.
and
all that I've let cause it.
and sleep.
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Aw, shucks...brilliant is rather extreme, I think. But thanks.
Thinking restorative thoughts for your granddad and the four-legged family member...
RYC: Thanks . . . the moon always seems so much bigger in the sky as it rises than when it is high overhead. Yet, science teaches us that, despite what we perceive it is the same distance and size at both points in its arc across the skies.
I think you may be basing your ideas about the nature of homosexuality more upon personal experience than scientific truth. This is understandable because, at present, there is no conclusive scientific proof in either direction . . . despite what many, including some of my readers, may say.
My goal was to avoid science in my position and focus on an accepted classical philosophy to demonstrate the fallacy of homosexuality as "nature".
Yet, as I anticipated, when the truth cuts so closely to the bone, the pain of amputating a lie is considerable.
Thank you for the thoughts.
Nice to meet you. I am Aion.