Comments on: A perfect day

By: EyeoftheStorm

EyeoftheStorm — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:55:01 +0000

Universal condition. If you get really good at it you could become a full time writer or blogger. Think about it, what is most self-reflection or art about? Is it not to capture the ephemeral nature of existence? Idealize it? At the least, in all poverty, to define it, stomp on it, and put it in the box where it belongs. I think what we’ve lost as post-modern (well, post-post modern) Westerners is a true sense of mystery. How do we go about regaining the experience of mystery?
What I’m looking for here is not a list of things but a map.

By: jason

jason — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:30:04 +0000

Totally, and this is why i need more Josh Kern in my life! Oh well, i guess Ecclesiastes will have to do.

By: Kern

Kern — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:26:35 +0000

Hah! You really do need to read Ecclesiastes now! Everything is “chasing after wind” anyway, all the matters are what you had in your poem and relationship with God. Eat, drink, be merry for tomorrow we die! Of course this is easy for me to say as you know one of fundimental character traits is to just “go” (more machine than man), but I think I see this same struggle in Dorothy at times.

By: jason

jason — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:33:53 +0000

Thanks Angie, good to know I’m not alone.

By: Angie

Angie — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:04:56 +0000

Jason, it isn’t just you, maybe it’s our culture, it isn’t your gender, I don’t think it has anything to do w/ religion, & it is probably just being human. I have a constant struggle w/ being content too. I try to focus really hard on being thankful for what I do have & where I am at, but I’m often a slave to the “what’s next” thoughts. Another thing I try to do is remember how I got where I’m at . . . those long journeys sometimes help me have better prospective about the awesomeness of my current position. Sometimes. If you conquer it tell me the secret.