“I like my philosophy smothered in beauty and not the opposite”
~Wallace Stevens
Circus by STS9, which blew me away at Electric Forest as glow sticks were being launched off parachutes and jelly fish congregated above the crowd. :)
Erica Somogyi
Finally back in Montreal, and I finally have the time to walk around and think. Wondering..
can we only be as much as the sum of external factors,
the places we’re in, the people we interact with, the situations that are present?
and,
if we don’t always realize the effect we have on our environment, to what extent can we be held responsible for our actions, our chain-reaction-causing behaviors of which we can only control so little?
Upon reading those questions, a friend of mine said, “Well, it seems ideal.”
I suppose that if we’re all a part of this chain reaction, it would only make sense that all of us only do good for the cause-and-effect pattern. If everything we do effects everything else, and everything else effects us, we might as well only be giving positive repercussions because, after all, it’s in our own best interest.
I think that’s what they call Karma.
I realize that scribbling is possibly the most productive thing I could be doing.
Recently I was telling some friends how fun it was to teach stories to children at Sunday School, because I liked the idea that the world inside their little 7-year-old brains was still, at least a bit, animated. They have not yet lost the sense that when they hear thunder it’s the sound of angels bowling…their sense that the kickball rolled down the hill not because of gravity or science but because it wanted to come down and play…the idea that maybe that leap of faith, to believe in the world as a magical place, full of allegories and spiced with inexplicable wonder, isn’t such a leap of faith…that maybe we want the unknown and the unknown allows us to have true imagination.
There is nothing I don’t want to do today.
De Es
These pages don’t look ‘funny’ but when you read them, they are. Maybe if we walked around actually reading into things, instead of just looking at them, we would find good humor.
Take some time to watch this—it’s spot on! We need to change the way we think of education like an economic machine.
Brendan Monroe
Gregory Euclide
The other day, in my “epiphanies & what not” section of my little purple journal, I noted:
“A truly wise person knows they always have more to learn,
and the only people who are wrong are those who think they are undeniably correct”
In other words,
“As for me, all I know is that I know nothing”
-Socrates
Woo! Genius points.
