tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post638046832282535470..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: Waking MomentCord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-83816039206769829362011-10-16T14:28:20.138-04:002011-10-16T14:28:20.138-04:00I think that we may over inflate the actual cost o...I think that we may over inflate the actual cost of such things.<br /><br />The economy of the gift has always been one of theft and disguise, so ruins, callous actions, betrayal and despair are a part of such transactions.<br /><br />Life for me becomes more uncertain, what should be the most fearful I find easy to deal with. It is the small petty and insignificant events I still find difficult to let go of, but I think I am slowly breaking free of the embrace of such objects as my perspectives shifts.<br /><br />I may or may not face a very high risk adventure and may or may not bleed out on a table in cold sterile room. Ironically the hand that will guide the glittering blade is an inmate of the institution I thought I had escaped. It is also a training and teaching institution The same institution that beat my work to a pulp declared it heretical, non-empirical, a work of literary fiction that spoke with a demonic French accent.<br /><br />I am once again in the hands of that institution but this time it holds my very life in it's hands. Escape is not possible but nothing is certain and from my altering perspective the very high cost it has demanded in the past becomes more irrelevant. The way in which all certainty has shifted in my life allows anything to become possible in such a fluid environment."And what is the standard of value in such a pursuit as this?"Jebnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-4389085119960556132011-10-16T08:06:00.561-04:002011-10-16T08:06:00.561-04:00I think that as long one as one uses such experien...I think that as long one as one uses such experiences as ej's as poetry (as a perspicuous reminder) as inspiration, as a way of cultivating hope and appreciation, and not as metaphysics (as the way things truly deep down or even as they will/could be) than there is no necessary tension between these thoughts/posts.<br />We dwell poetically even when all things are not shining, as we manufacture, warp and weave, experience as we go. William James was wrong to think that it wouldn't matter to a methodist if he was worshiping a God or his unconscious but we can be grateful to have such gifting capacities even tho there is no Giver. There is much work to be done in the world and no cheap grace, like good bricoleurs we should use the best bit and pieces of what is at hand to fashion tools of overcoming and sublimation.<br />-dmfAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-81015172450824878672011-10-15T19:18:37.793-04:002011-10-15T19:18:37.793-04:00"I think that math was not his strong suit&qu..."I think that math was not his strong suit": that made me laugh out loud.<br /><br />Like you, I'll also pay the costs for vibrancy. Every second of every day something beautiful and something equally horrible happen simultaneously. I suspect that, on most days, the bad news outweighs the bad, spread throughout the population of this world. You have to choose, not just passively inhabit, the world you will live in, or perhaps a better way of putting it would be to say: live with. One can also just stubbornly insist on seeing what's good and best in everything. Again: it's not epistemology; it's a choice one makes--it's faith, maybe also belief, or maybe, just seeing things a certain way, and in a certain light.Eileen Joyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13756965845120441308noreply@blogger.com