Sunday, February 02, 2003

Regeneration and Recycling

I mean in the sense that cycles, repitition, and giving back to a source of generosity are relevent and inevitable in situations where longevity is concerned.

I like to day dream in the car. Not driving or anything, just sitting in my car, parked somewhere. The sun on my face, music playing,window down, my legs strategically placed over the steering wheel on the dash board or something equally awkward. I am a compulsive write. I write because there comes a point when I can do nothing, I can read no longer, and I can't scream anymore.

Writing is what I am then left with. I write from the same corner in the living room. At my pc. one window faces east the other south. I think about all the changes I have seen just from this vantage point. All the feelings I have felt. Good days and bad days. I see people walking there dogs. Walking with their families. I see kids riding bikes, skateboards, and scooters.

I have seen people shot on this corner. Though they were not enjoying the same positive life affirming activies as the previously mentioned. I am just saying. This little vantage point has revealed so much life. I often enjoy looking out my windows for hours. When I can steal a moment or two of solitude to enjoy it, regard it, feel it.

It's very windy today. Wind is good. It disturbs and reassures at the same time. Its the anniversary of bob marley's birthday. its black history month. Valentine's day is coming. So many reminders.

I am here thinking about it all looking out my window. Doing laundry. Romanticizing because I am a romantic. Reading analytical writings of Kerouac have put me in a strange mode and mood. My own duplicity of visionary, imaginative, romanticism and analytical thinking. Like an orchestra in my head. One beat generates another and another. The beat movement was a literary response to jazz. I think that no one looks at how the beat movement facilitated rap. But it did. The evolution of taking sound and using it as a platform for the word to interpret and express feeling. Rap if nothing else sends a message about the potency and power of the word. What the word can do, what it can reveal. You can't top the word. NO Way.

Regenerating to make a cycle of something, to regard the inevitability of cycles.
Recycling, to make use of something in the form of maintaining its usefulness and value in a new or modified way appling value utilizing the principles of alchemy. These are powerful thought provoking words, furthered by the unique mindset of any individual. These things shape shift, they may apply to an old t-shirt or economic productivity. They unite that which is above it all and that which is beneath in a continuous flow of movement.

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