The Crow: June 2010

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Forks in the Road

"There’s a fork in the road ahead
I don’t know which way I’m gonna turn
There’s a fork in the road ahead"
..........Neil Young, from 2009 album "Fork in the Road."

One of the things I do when I have been hurt, really hurt, is I shut down my emotions and seek out a cave for the duration of the event. I also take my brain hostage, so that when I re-emerge from my cave and see the mess I've made of my life, I am stunned. How could I have made such a cock-up of so many things?

Faced with several mistakes which need to be set right, some of which are costly, and with some 'fork-in-the-road' choices, I need to back off blogging for awhile. Won't be back for a couple of months or so, but I'll be thinking of all of you, and will drop by your sites when I can to keep up with your lives.

Hope your summer goes well! See you this fall.

Meaningful Quotes

"We are displaced by time."

-Marian Marshall Suplee Griest, late (first) mother-in-law, spoken to me in January 1994, in a dream after her death.

"We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen." - D. H. Lawrence (via Whiskey River, 8-22-2014)

"There is something scary about letting ourselves
go. It means that we will screw up, that we will relinquish the possibility of perfection. It means that we will say things we didn't mean to say and express feelings we can't explain. It means that we will be onstage and not have complete control, that we won't know what we're going to play until we begin,
until the bow is drawn across the strings.

While this spontaneous method might be frightening, it's also an extremely valuable source of creativity. The lesson about letting go is that we contain our own creativity. We are so worried about playing the wrong note or saying the wrong thing that we end up with nothing at all." - Jonah Lehrer (via Whiskey River, 10/22/2014)

The Crow

Sunday, June 13, 2010

For Plutarch

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Forks in the Road