Massive amounts of work tonight, which is translating into no time at all for contemplation or daydreaming. And certainly not for playing guitar. Yesterdays songfest has cost me the use of two fingers for most of today. Apparently I am not ready to go back to pressing strings yet. But I am ever hopeful, and am getting pretty fast at typing with fewer fingers than usual.
So. Some words of wisdom that I keep coming across in various forms and using various justifications--keep yourself separate from the world. It is fallen/corrupt/illusion. I sort of see the point in some regards, but from another point of view, we are only here for a little while, no matter whether you believe that this is a stopping point or testing ground on your way to somewhere better...or worse...or in any case, apparently more important, or you believe that this is it. This being the case, I feel strongly that we should love hard while we are here. Love your beloveds and make sure they know it. Love your earth because you are made of it and it is what makes your life possible. With that in mind, I embrace the world and all it contains, and do what I can to make it better, or at least not worse. But I won't set myself aside from it as though it were something dirty or evil. There is plenty of natural unpleasantness that we can't do anything about (wasp eggs planted inside of caterpillars, anyone?). There are the terrible things that humans do to other humans and to animals and to our entire life support system. Instead of causing one to withdraw, these should inspire one to engage, even if it's only to the extent of sending $20 to Habitat for Humanity or the World Wildlife Fund.
And to those of you who are thinking, "This isn't the kind of thing we're talking about when we're talking about eschewing worldly things!", hmm.
There are so many tangents to go off to from here. But I really do have to get back to work.
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