The Crow: Born to Be Wild

Sunday, September 6, 2009

For Joe Spado

You will notice, if you click on the photo above, that I have doctored the image a bit. Crows don't have white eyes. Their eyes are blue when they're first hatched, but their eyes turn deep brown by the time of their first moult. Anyway, I chose this photo to symbolize my spirit's desire to be on the ride that Joe Spado and company are undertaking soon, if they haven't already gone. Someday...someday, I will hit the road; I will honor the wild child I was born to be. For now, I ride in spirit with folks like Joe, who really do head out on the highway, looking for adventure.

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Also, to honor Joe, I found a video made in Germany. In the background you hear Steppenwolf's iconic "Born to Be Wild." In the foreground, you hear...well, you'll see.

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Enjoy your ride, Joe. Ride hard, ride free, ride safe and sound. See you when you get back. Looking forward to reading all about your ride, friend.

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)