Friday, February 15, 2013

"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet."  Franz Kafka

That is truth.  Sometimes you need to have an imposed experience to learn the truth.  If this is not the truth, this blog will cease to exist.  Because it is our "blAHnde Moments!" when we realize the truth, life is right in front of us if we look at what we see around us.

How often do you just stop and take a look around and see your reality as it is rather than what you are looking for?  Listening now to the birds chirping and music playing I remember how grateful I am today.  I remember clearly many nites watching the lights fountain up The Plaza's marquee, two lights missing, finding a rhythm in its pattern, hoping that the desire for calm would find syncopation in the noises of the reality I sat.

"BANG. BANG. BANG."  Qwest* has awoken from his slumber as our cel reverberates in the loud banging sound that I imagine is a lead pipe striking a metal door, but knowing that in "the hole" he has nothing even remotely close to a lead pipe and it extends beyond my imagination how he can make such a loud noise.  Maybe he'll just go back to sleep.

"PUNK BITCH FUCKING WHITE HO!"  Nope -- no such luck he's up for another round of shouting at the top of his lungs.

Are the birds any less disturbing?  Are the kids in the living room?  What about the neighbor's barking dog?  There is always a dissonance in your reality to challenge your sense of balance and reality, embrace it and find where a new reality of balance and calm can find itself.

*Qwest, really, his street name.  How I learned his name is a whole different story.

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