the art of living drives my thought processes ever forwards
at the breakfast table this morning
5:10am
i ask myself
so what is this art of living?
is it a kind of map?
a blueprint for a life lived in accordance with god's wishes or laws?
is it mere pretentiousness and self-aggrandisement?
is it simply a life lived and experienced through art
in all its many manifestations?
is it a developmental process?
is it a product of a simple idea:
that whatever you do should be done with integrity and love and mindfulness?
perhaps it is all of those things and more
poetry
song
beauty
ugliness
confession
soul-bearing
aspiration
fantasy
dull prose
angry rant
perfection and imperfection
a blossoming flower
a splintered tree stump
the vast cosmos
the microscopic amoeba
the past
the present
and the future
the always and everlasting
the me
the you
the us
the them
fingertips on a keyboard
light on the retina
electrical currents in the neural circuitry
stimulation for the mind
the things we carry
the things we leave behind
the things we lost along the way
codifying
decodifying
recodifying
'oh - it's just a blog, you pretentious bastard!'
like helen of troy was just an assemblage of water, bone and nail
like a guitar is just a hunk of timber and extruded iron ore
like a book is just paper pulp, ink and stitches
like cumulonimbus clouds are just water vapour
like sex is just a mechanical act
like a laugh is
like speech is
like music is
so much more out there for us to behold
it can be ridiculed
it can be debased
it can be sneered at and villified
but the holy spirit is indomitable
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3 comments:
how about change the last sentence, sorry, I don't even know what it should be but I feel it comes too abruptly and like those sentences on sorts of "red book" written by Mao or other communists.
read it many times.
another early bird
(woke up 5:30 mysteriously, instead of 6:30 as usual.)
p.s. I love your articles except some sentences.
Never mind, don't take it seriously. maybe a I'm wrong, like I always use wrong grammer unawarely.
What is self-aggrandissement? May I understand it as "over appraisement on oneself"?
Thanks.
dear anonymous
sorry about the clumsy last sentence - maybe i should start writing a little red book!
s-a is an act undertaken to draw attention to your own importance
thanks for your comments
fireseed
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