Thursday, October 2, 2008

You Mean You Can Be Relaxed Always?

This is a good life. This is a good kind of existence.

I like waking up and asking myself what my adventures are going to be. I like waking up next to my pal. I like waking up knowing that I can do anything, even though I am brokeass poor and not going to be seeing any income anytime soon. And I like being bright and shiny and making other people smile.

I like that when you are bright and shiny and brave people want to know you so they take you in and help you get the things you need. I like that people have their love glasses on.

I like that after seeing Maya Deren's psychotic dream film at the Tate both Emilie and I were reeling with ideas and started making little notes to give to people about being joyful and making art. I like that Tara joined in. I like that we were all so tired that they stopped making sense.

And I like that I feel good after being creative like that.

I like that doing yoga can put me in the state of BEHERENOWALWAYS and reminds me that I am on a different continent and in fact i am ALIVE and that's grand. I am not only alive, but I am around two very good friends, one of which is traveling with me by a force of serendipity and one who is sheltering us with so much love and joy. I like that I have just enough, and that my parents call me to wish me a happy jewish new year, that my dreams are full of people i miss during the day and then get to say hi to at night. i like that they wear canary yellow jackets and bowler hats in my dream.

i like walking beautiful old london streets and seeing all of the beautiful architecture. i like imagining the people building it and what they were thinking and feeling. how could you not feel absolute one-ness when you are building a grand house of god? even if i dont agree with it. and the westminster abbey

THE WESTMINSTER ABBEY. i could feel it like i was there at the time. walking through the quad halls, feeling the noontime sunlight on my face.

we both felt ghosts all around us.

and i like most of all
that i can find my way around the city
even if i have to ask eight people for directions



i am always walking in the right direction

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James Perry Hartman said...

You always have such beautiful things to say. You shouldn't use all your beauty up so quickly, you could run out and then people wouldn't talk to you anymore.