You Give Love A Bad Meme

I feel misogynistic in a poetic sense of the word. Like a cry against existence...

A turn against the fire of creation in a quest to stop the madness. I see the news and there is nothing but sadness in a world devoid of gladness. Why do we stake our claims on badness?

I feel misogynistic in a poetic sense of the word. Like a cry against existence...

Ennui is the chatter-Left? Right? Center? FINE!
But can see the tatter?
You're too old to thrive on flatter.
That's why you can't see what's the matter!

I feel misogynistic in a poetic sense of the word. Like a cry against existence...

Is this the message you want to send that neighborliness has no friend? Even Sodom & Gomorrah went that trend and we all know that fantastic end! Given our past, what I fear around the bend is a future we cannot defend!

I feel misogynistic in a poetic sense of the word. Like a cry against existence...

Dr. Ferguson Lecture

Texas A & M University-Kingsville's Annual Faculty Lecture will be held tonight at the Irma Rangel College of Pharmacy BLDG Room 115.

The lecture is called "Shadow Work" and the Making of the Modern World by Dr. Dean T. Ferguson, professor of history at TAMUK

"Factory workers were documented in labor history, guild members were noted in the history of the early modern period. These 'shadow workers' have hardly been mentioned at all."

"One of the main things I want people to leave the lecture with is an awareness of the variety of informal sector work that happens all around them."

"I also want them to learn that much of what we know about industrialization and the rise of the west is incomprehensible without these workers..."

"...I want the attendees to see that there are distinct parallels between today's informal sector and the shadow work of the 18th and 19th Centuries."

(Quotes cited from The Kingsville Record April 18, 2010 5A)

I will be attending this lecture. I will post some thoughts later.

EAIII

A Voice Amid the Wilderness

The most enduring image from the series Genesis: A Living Conversation is the image of the trapeze artist. While discussing faith and the story of Jacob, Roberta Hestenes mentions the image of the trapeze artist and how it informed her sense of faith. She said faith is not the fairly safe climb up the ladder or even the precarious swinging. It is when the moment comes to release from the safety and security of the swing and being willing, gutsy, and courageous enough to let go and take the hand of your partner on the other side.

This blog thing is a bit overwhelming, especially within the terms I've set. It is a cute little paradox too. A blog, by its very nature (given the time we live in) is daily and organic. The topics I've chosen to write about, on the other hand, require a lot of research. And given my procrastinatory nature, this could take months ;) Hence, the paradox: a blog languishing in research! Many times I've wanted to write something and have talked myself out of it because it doesn't fit the stated criteria. This is absurd! And it can no longer continue.

The best part of a blog is the dailiness of it and the willingness to be prolific! I do not want to create an online dairy but I do want to have a storehouse of thought. A narrative of my life even; I can't do that if I focus the blog so much that it misses large portions of my life. So this is me today, trying to find a voice in the bloggosphere. Trying to traverse the worlds of history and music and drumming to find a unified voice. My personal unified field theory.

This is where I let go of the swing ready to catch the hands of my readers.