3-1-2010 Why do you curse the wind? A leaf so brightly colored should feel each toss intensely, passionately, thankfully. The fickle lift of every gust is made electric, ecstatic by the emptiness it emerges from, the silence it retreats into.
A calm and ordered life is insulated from real passion, is a retreat from risk, is the erection of a windbreak. Take care not to lead your life into such stale rooms; dead air and musty carpets.
The unspeakable immensities of joy, of potential, of greatness you sense the presence of in so elusive and tentative a world are only possible at the mercy of the unknowable, the irreproachable wind.
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i really like your poetic touch in this. personally, i like the calm and ordered life sometimes. Someone told me recently that I was one of the the most rational people they knew. I asked how that could be because I've done so many things that many people would see as highly irrational... but then i thought about it... that i have done a lot of these crazy things because it made more sense to me to live my life having done them than not. it seemed more rational to embrace the unpredictable than not... so i guess rational doesn't always need to be safe. thanks for sharing.
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