Sunday, April 1, 2012

this c/age of possibility



every day
h/our plan
of life –

this stack
of b/oxed hopes,
of I th/ink

g/rows
a little higher
a little edgier

this
c/age
of possibility

this
s/low
c/lock
c/all

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yesterday: strings of blue sky despite a clouded forecast.
yesterday: moving back 40.000 years in a book
yesterday: blue Alb views along a drive
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and a line, to ponder on:

In so many ways, it can be uncomfortable to be different.
It takes courage.
There is a price to pay for it.

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a "different" afterthought:
maybe it is human irony that one longing of the human psyche is to be special, while the other longing is to be comfortable in ones surrounding, to be “part of the group/crowd”. and so many films are about people with special talents who are mocked, and then find their way and are celebrated – but this mocking, it’s also a part of our social structure. and probably both are needed.

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and 3 links, picking up on the themes of  "different" age and race:

White Until Proven Black: Imgining Race
“People very often talk about literacy with words, but there’s such a thing as visual and thematic literacy,”...

on editing BluePrintReview from a race / class / gender point of view
earlier this year, the Luna Park editors started a series titled "Race, Class, Gender & Sexuality in Indie Publishing", and invited editors and writers to participate. (from 2010)

A Saturday Rumpus Index For the Conspicuously Old
"The Millions has a good series on Late Bloomers ( "Late" According to Whom?), but I am a woman who prefers to comfort herself with a collection of cold, hard facts..."

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