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After scanning its face again and again,
I began to scale it, picking my holds
With intense caution. About half-way
To the top, I was suddenly brought to
A dead stop, with arms outspread
Clinging close to the face of the rock
Unable to move hand or foot
Either up or down. My doom
Appeared fixed. I MUST fall.
There would be a moment of
Bewilderment, and then,
A lifeless rumble down the cliff
To the glacier below.
My mind seemed to fill with a
Stifling smoke. This terrible eclipse
Lasted only a moment, when life blazed
Forth again with preternatural clearness.
I seemed suddenly to become possessed
Of a new sense. My trembling muscles
Became firm again, every rift and flaw in
The rock was seen as through a microscope,
My limbs moved with a positiveness and precision
With which I seemed to have
Nothing at all to do.
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of
universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I
reach my hands and play with pebbles of
destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs
reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive
in the universe.
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Gerard, thank you for the fertilizer with which to help cultivate, as the gentleman speaking notes must be done daily, this day.
Yes, Gerard, more more more please. Is there any more? I could spend my whole life (what’s left of it) listening and being inspired…..
Cryogenics, I hear they have had some success.
excellent – my thanks
Beautiful! Thank you!
You’re too much man. That was fabulous.
Every night I thank…whomever, for the gift I was given. Every morning I do the same for getting another chance to put my feet on the ground. It’s so beautiful here on earth. I’ll miss it but for now, you haven’t caught me sitting in front of a TV for 30 years-except when there’s a Grand Slam! Hell no one is perfect, who needs that?
Open your heart to the world, to your fellow man, to your fellow human beings.
The cost of growing older, is to grow more cynical, less trusting in others. You’ve been betrayed, you’ve been hurt by someone else, by many others, by the world. You’re not going to be taken advantage of again, I’m not that naive. Won’t get fooled again!
Yet, to open your heart to the world and to each other, is to truly live. It is just today, that’s all we have. Next week is just a promise, and last week is just a memory. Close your heart to the world, and begin dying inside.
“Go, thoughts, on wings of gold.
Go, settle on slopes and hills of Earth
where warm and soft and fragrant are
the breezes of our sweet land of birth.”
h/t Giuseppe Verdi’s opera ‘Nabucco’
Most excellent as always.
Wonderful
Gerard — that young RFD girl I was trying to describe to you? You found her — she’s at the beginning of the video. Something more “beautiful-er.”
Thank you for posting this one, Gerard– it’s a keeper.
Ah, thank you for this, Gerard. Grandkids will be here Monday. They’re young and thoughtful; I’m going to call them over to see it. Hope I have the inspiration to lead a conversation about it.
Thank you, Gerard. If I would watch this first thing every morning, I would be a better man.
I would very much like to be a better man.
So beautiful. Very. Thank you Gerard! Appropriate to end the day with gratitude. It’s like a prayer.
Truth! Danka GV.
VI
Why do we forget to appreciate the rare wonderful miracles we have? A medical student was telling us about the human body yesterday- he described the incredible intricacies of the body, the millions of cells all working in harmony. It’s just a miracle. I vowed to take better care of my body after listening to his descriptions. I wish I could remember what he said so I could share it here.