Saturday, July 04, 2009
Hooray for the Red, White and Blue!
There must be many explanations...wrtings everywhere...explaining why we adopted the same colors for our country's flag as the colors of the nation we desparately fought to be free of...Mother England...and i should probably Google and satisfy my own curiosity: why are the United States of America's colors these particular ones: red...white and blue?
Red for the blood shed to gain our independence? White for its purity of purpose? Blue for the sky? What? I know not why we celebrate these colors today -this 233rd July 4th Celebration of our country;'s birth..but we do: Hooray !
I am particularly celebratory today because we all have a total day off from any required work...show shows, no rehearsals, no nothin'...and the gentle summer breeezes keep the weather at a pleasant feel, the house is well stocked with foods of all sorts ...Peter's family is here to visit...much love surrounds us all...and the waters of our backyard pond gurgle gently and the morning grows older....I was up at dawn, as usual, but this time, i was not "angsting" about things that needed to be done at the office...no..this time, I felt rested and happy about the day that lay ahead of me, and i was filled with a sense of contentment and ease. A good way to awaken....rested and at ease.
Dogs bark in the distance....those pond waters gurgle...birdsong laces the air...and even at rest like this,there is this need to communicate by writing. Who do i think would ever possibly read this? Who am I talking to? And who is listening? Well...i am talking to ME, and I am listening...so there is the definite recognition that i am not alone in here, inside this head of mine..this body....someone else resides here and it recognizes an "I"...it speaks to "me"..and I speak back to "it"...so, even though it seems I am out here on the brick patio alone with the gurgling waters, I am not...a certain cognizant spirit resides within me and I suppose that is my "Soul"? ANYWAY....
THe reason I'm asking is because I juist had anotehr run-in with that busybody "Evalyn Baron" who now and again believes it is all for nought...that nothing truly matters...no one really cares and no one is really listening to anyone else for any reason...so all this manufacturing of meaning we do, this invention of purposes simply infinite formations of games we all play to pass the time...and acknowledgin this is so very restful. It may sound nihilistic, but no....it's not. It's a recognition of what's so in the "real" world...we do invent things...we invent it all..and we name it, and we give it meaning, and we purpose it into importance.....and we all do it, ...rather like the MATIRX notion: it's a world we all agree on, and live in together...and this is how we all get along. We invent all the rules as well....the rules of how one gains power...the rules of love...the rules of agreement as to what is "important" enough to cause growth or pain or illness or adoration...we invent it...and as with all things invented or manufactured: it all changes with the fashion of the times.
So RED, WHITE and BLUE? WHy not??? It may as well be PINK, GREEN , and TURQUOISE??? Or salute a flag of BLACK< BROWN and GREY? and call it patriotic? We imbue even color - especially color - with meaning and emotion....Werner Ehrhardt of the famed EST Training used to say we are :meaning Machines"...we invient it all..we manufacture it all.
Why does this re-realization give me such comfort today? Even asking that question begs for meaning? It does because it does...it relieves me of having to care too destructively about any one thing in life...even though of course I do care pretty much overwhelmingly about everything on a daily basis...so today? I AM RELAXING FROM CARING!
I will love...but I will not care...pure love.Careless love.
And today , I do love the notion of this country of ours....this idea that mankind has the right to be free of oppression...free of harm from others..which of course is a ludicrous notion since no two things can ever exist without one oppressing another.
I need to eat breakfast with the family...more on this sooon, I hope...
love to all on this 4th of July!
Red for the blood shed to gain our independence? White for its purity of purpose? Blue for the sky? What? I know not why we celebrate these colors today -this 233rd July 4th Celebration of our country;'s birth..but we do: Hooray !
I am particularly celebratory today because we all have a total day off from any required work...show shows, no rehearsals, no nothin'...and the gentle summer breeezes keep the weather at a pleasant feel, the house is well stocked with foods of all sorts ...Peter's family is here to visit...much love surrounds us all...and the waters of our backyard pond gurgle gently and the morning grows older....I was up at dawn, as usual, but this time, i was not "angsting" about things that needed to be done at the office...no..this time, I felt rested and happy about the day that lay ahead of me, and i was filled with a sense of contentment and ease. A good way to awaken....rested and at ease.
Dogs bark in the distance....those pond waters gurgle...birdsong laces the air...and even at rest like this,there is this need to communicate by writing. Who do i think would ever possibly read this? Who am I talking to? And who is listening? Well...i am talking to ME, and I am listening...so there is the definite recognition that i am not alone in here, inside this head of mine..this body....someone else resides here and it recognizes an "I"...it speaks to "me"..and I speak back to "it"...so, even though it seems I am out here on the brick patio alone with the gurgling waters, I am not...a certain cognizant spirit resides within me and I suppose that is my "Soul"? ANYWAY....
THe reason I'm asking is because I juist had anotehr run-in with that busybody "Evalyn Baron" who now and again believes it is all for nought...that nothing truly matters...no one really cares and no one is really listening to anyone else for any reason...so all this manufacturing of meaning we do, this invention of purposes simply infinite formations of games we all play to pass the time...and acknowledgin this is so very restful. It may sound nihilistic, but no....it's not. It's a recognition of what's so in the "real" world...we do invent things...we invent it all..and we name it, and we give it meaning, and we purpose it into importance.....and we all do it, ...rather like the MATIRX notion: it's a world we all agree on, and live in together...and this is how we all get along. We invent all the rules as well....the rules of how one gains power...the rules of love...the rules of agreement as to what is "important" enough to cause growth or pain or illness or adoration...we invent it...and as with all things invented or manufactured: it all changes with the fashion of the times.
So RED, WHITE and BLUE? WHy not??? It may as well be PINK, GREEN , and TURQUOISE??? Or salute a flag of BLACK< BROWN and GREY? and call it patriotic? We imbue even color - especially color - with meaning and emotion....Werner Ehrhardt of the famed EST Training used to say we are :meaning Machines"...we invient it all..we manufacture it all.
Why does this re-realization give me such comfort today? Even asking that question begs for meaning? It does because it does...it relieves me of having to care too destructively about any one thing in life...even though of course I do care pretty much overwhelmingly about everything on a daily basis...so today? I AM RELAXING FROM CARING!
I will love...but I will not care...pure love.Careless love.
And today , I do love the notion of this country of ours....this idea that mankind has the right to be free of oppression...free of harm from others..which of course is a ludicrous notion since no two things can ever exist without one oppressing another.
I need to eat breakfast with the family...more on this sooon, I hope...
love to all on this 4th of July!
