Hours of Oddity

missing optimism...

Today, I woke with a bit of optimism missing.

I couldn't find it anywhere.

I checked under the bed, in my underwear drawer, amongst my shoes and in the jewelry box.

I rummaged through my cubbard, in the fruit bowl and within the refridgerator.

I looked in the medicine cabinet and down the drain that was full of hair from my bath the night before.

But it wasn't there.

Everyday I miss it less. Should that scare me?

Dance around the world - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Dance around the world - The Big Picture - Boston.com

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That lovely crazy man

This morning I woke in a foul mood. One of those moods where you visualize punching, slapping or viciously word-whipping the people that have offended you in your life and then imagine walking away with righteous dignity and pride as a choir sings in exalting tones.

I delved deeper into the inventive and slightly undignified ways I could enact my vengeance as I rode the subway to work this morning. But then, at Brooklyn Bridge stop on the 5 express train, as we pulled away from the platform, there was an old grey bearded homeless man in a trench coat on the platform elaborately waving the train away, as if he was the platform conductor. It was a simple action that he was completely physically vested in even though it was completely useless as the train was already moving away.

My face broke into a smile and I felt myself giggle. His intentions were so kind and helpful and yet so unecessary.

Sometimes all it takes is a little dirty crazy man waving you on from a train platform.

Albert Einstein

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. - Albert Einstein

The New Wheel...

The next thing I want to explore for Live Theater

The 2009 Venice Biennale - The Big Picture - Boston.com

The 2009 Venice Biennale - The Big Picture - Boston.com

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Think Again: Asia's Rise - By Minxin Pei | Foreign Policy

Think Again: Asia's Rise - By Minxin Pei | Foreign Policy

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Exit the King with Geoffrey Rush

The most amazing performance I have ever seen:

http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/interactive/video/index.html

Pick Exit the King....

My Second Education

You must stand on a rickety pedestal in the wind to hold to a belief or an idea while the multitude of optional avenues and other ideas blow by you. As they woosh by, they scream in your face (or sometimes whisper seductively), "I am the right way. I am the truth." But the only thing that makes this hold true in your world is how tightly your toes grip the pedestal of descision that you are standing on as the winds blow you in all directions.

Everything we are and everything we do is a decision. You can allow the wind to blow you and say that "this is fate", but again it is in the wind that you allowed your body to go limp with and ride to where ever it lead you. Sometimes there are alot of people standing on one big pedestal. The pedestals get bigger the more people stand on them, but does that make those pedestals more true? It certainly makes it easier to avoid the wind, the bigger they are. And what safety there is in avoiding the wind. How tempting.

The Rage in Placid Lake

An Aussie movie I fell in love with.

mystery box

More Arthur Ganson

I am in awe of the play, simplicity and complexity of this artist. Top of my inspirational list.

...time...

There are things in life with time and things that exist without.
We occupy ourselves with the things with time and hope for those without.