Thursday, October 14, 2010
Commune- ication
I was reminded yet again - this morning at a Barter gathering of wonderful faithful Barter fans and supporters - that this blog does, now and then, get read, and every time someone mentions something they've read in it, i get the biggest thrill. Thanks so much to all of you who do read these pages. And many thanks to all of you who mention that you do. It's a powerful feeling to know that I (the me that is me) is being read, understood, "gotten" by others. Or more to the point: that what my thoughts have to communicate is being received by others: the exchange of the energy of ideas. That's why knowing you read this blog matters: more energy is exchanged and a "commune"-ication is formed. A duet.
As i get older, i am more and more convinced that words have a unique power - more specifically, written words. By virtue of the fact that they are written down somewhere, that they are taken from thought or speech into an entire other form of energy : into INK, into visual form...by virtue of this transformation into something more visible, more power is added to the word. It becomes more than a thought: it becomes visual art, with the added weight that visual art contains. That is why different printing fonts came into being: for the powerful art of words. And, you can call it anything you want to call it: power, energy, force, whatever....but it's that energy/power that is capable of transforming every moment we exist.
Words can wound, but they can wound deeper in writing.
It's also that energy - the written word energy - that is capable of forever marring issues, situations, exchanges of thought, and why it is advised :DO NOT PUT IT IN WRITING! Since the advent of the e-mail, the Internet, the instantaneous exchange of thought, people have the possibility of "speaking" before thinking much more easily, of putting their very own foot into their mouth far more often...of getting into the sort of trouble that only thoughtlessness can create. I honestly believe it's why our political scene is so much more volatile, more changeable, more explosive more often: there are more people writing thoughts down before they take the time to think or learn.
SO: writing has power...not a new idea or realization...but as I enter a time in my life that I am going to devote to writing, this realization has sufficient new energy in itself for me to get truly excited from: I am going to dive into a new ocean, deep blue and aquamarine, and I am going to surface from those waters stained with new experience and spirit...with new insights and new reasons to form more "communes" with others...to increase my life and the lives of others with all the art within me.
Writing IS power.
Corrupt leaders of nations do two things with writing: (well lots more than two, but here at the two i am focusing on right now): 1). They use it as a quick, down and dirty way to disperse propaganda and 2). they outlaw and destroy any writing that speaks against their corruption.
Writing IS important to the good, the bad and the ugly.
Writing is what we do when we want to create agreement in the world: we write peace treaties (not just shake on it), we write new laws into existence (not just proclaim them from some bully pulpit), we write
and sign vows, when we "ceremonialize" any important commitments or changes in our private lives (again, not just pinky swear).
Writing is, for many, TRUTH by which they live.
Fear of the power of writing is why code was invented.
Respect for the power of writing is why legal contracts were invented.
Love for the power of writing is why poetry exists.
Writing is enough ........ to justify a life spent doing it.
As i get older, i am more and more convinced that words have a unique power - more specifically, written words. By virtue of the fact that they are written down somewhere, that they are taken from thought or speech into an entire other form of energy : into INK, into visual form...by virtue of this transformation into something more visible, more power is added to the word. It becomes more than a thought: it becomes visual art, with the added weight that visual art contains. That is why different printing fonts came into being: for the powerful art of words. And, you can call it anything you want to call it: power, energy, force, whatever....but it's that energy/power that is capable of transforming every moment we exist.
Words can wound, but they can wound deeper in writing.
It's also that energy - the written word energy - that is capable of forever marring issues, situations, exchanges of thought, and why it is advised :DO NOT PUT IT IN WRITING! Since the advent of the e-mail, the Internet, the instantaneous exchange of thought, people have the possibility of "speaking" before thinking much more easily, of putting their very own foot into their mouth far more often...of getting into the sort of trouble that only thoughtlessness can create. I honestly believe it's why our political scene is so much more volatile, more changeable, more explosive more often: there are more people writing thoughts down before they take the time to think or learn.
SO: writing has power...not a new idea or realization...but as I enter a time in my life that I am going to devote to writing, this realization has sufficient new energy in itself for me to get truly excited from: I am going to dive into a new ocean, deep blue and aquamarine, and I am going to surface from those waters stained with new experience and spirit...with new insights and new reasons to form more "communes" with others...to increase my life and the lives of others with all the art within me.
Writing IS power.
Corrupt leaders of nations do two things with writing: (well lots more than two, but here at the two i am focusing on right now): 1). They use it as a quick, down and dirty way to disperse propaganda and 2). they outlaw and destroy any writing that speaks against their corruption.
Writing IS important to the good, the bad and the ugly.
Writing is what we do when we want to create agreement in the world: we write peace treaties (not just shake on it), we write new laws into existence (not just proclaim them from some bully pulpit), we write
and sign vows, when we "ceremonialize" any important commitments or changes in our private lives (again, not just pinky swear).
Writing is, for many, TRUTH by which they live.
Fear of the power of writing is why code was invented.
Respect for the power of writing is why legal contracts were invented.
Love for the power of writing is why poetry exists.
Writing is enough ........ to justify a life spent doing it.
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