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Inspired by Don't Speak ....
the old man rubbed his eyes … he was not asleep .. he knew that .. but there up there in the light .. yes the tree it had a face … and why not said the tree … the old man rubbed his eyes again and shook his head as if to ward off the voice he had heard … again the tree spoke … I am older than the oldest of men … i have seen more that could be told in your lifetime …. come listen … but the man not believing his eyes or his ears ran from the tree and out of the woods … the tree only sighed .. there is time and there will be others he said aloud to the birds as they perched on his branches … don’t speak the birds replied for no man will allow himself to believe and listen … the old tree only shrugged and the birds flew off into the sky …
- owlspook, 2010
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this one’s for you Antanas .. thank you for sharing your work, Don’t Speak, that inspired this little story …
Inspired by "Yampaper 49"
each is but a little ship in the vast mechanical sea … movement in unison .. no other way … predetermined … tied into … a part of … a cog … nothing new to be learned here .. move on …
and a voice in the background screams NO!
… but the machine hears not … one cog out of so many does not matter .. remove, discard, replace … the machine moves on … and the voice is smothered by the relentless movement of the little ships in the vast mechanical sea …
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- owlspook, May 2011
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This one’s for you Yampimon! (big smile) …… thank you for sharing your work that inspired this little mini-story
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Yampimon suggested Mars from the Planets Suite by Holst but it sounded too human IMHO … at first I couldn’t think of a replacement but then I couldn’t help but hearing “Pink Floyd’s Welcome to the Machine” .. oh not the words .. not what they meant but the music it self .. always the feeling of movement in unison .. relentless … so I though I’d include a YouTube video of it however and sorry I couldn’t find one that I really liked (sigh) … but those of you who know PF know how it sounds (big smile) … enjoy
February 2011
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January 2011
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“The artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he’s at somewhere. You always have to realize that you’re constantly in a state of becoming, you know? And as long as you stay in that realm, you’ll be alright.”
—Bob Dylan (via kevinramos)
June 2009
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“Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt and live like it’s heaven on Earth.”
— Mark Twain
“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.”
— Madeleine L’Engle
“what, you ask, was the beginning of it all?
And it is this …
Existence that multiplied itself for sheer delight of being
And plunged into numberless trillions of forms
So that it might
find itself
innumerably.” —Sri Aurobindo
And it is this …
Existence that multiplied itself for sheer delight of being
And plunged into numberless trillions of forms
So that it might
find itself
innumerably.” —Sri Aurobindo
March 2009
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February 2009
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“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were. Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee…”
— John Donne, Meditation 17, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
