"What if I'd been born fifty years before you
In a house on a street where you lived?
Maybe I'd be outside as you passed on your bike
Would I know?"
-"The Luckiest" by Ben Folds
In a house on a street where you lived?
Maybe I'd be outside as you passed on your bike
Would I know?"
-"The Luckiest" by Ben Folds
It makes sense that one would find Van Gogh's Sunflowers in an electron microscope image of Spanish moss, and it makes even more beautifully awful sense that Starry Night is found in the microscope image of melanoma. It makes sense that all of life would be symmetrical because it is all the same--all one.
The powerful video by Samuel Beckett, Come and Go, took this idea of the symmetry of life and related it, for me, to the allness of life.
The opening quote is from one of my favorite songs. I think it perfectly portrays this idea of allness through the greatest symmetry in life--love.
The Luckiest
Symmetry
The urge, to sit directly,
perfectly in the center of my bed
knees hugged to my chest.
Smoothing the sheets out from me—
slowly, precisely
with the palm of my hands.
This is how you make
the world go quiet.
An image, of a small boy
with little hands clasped over his ears,
rocking back and forth,
slowly.
They say he’s autistic.
He just wants the world to quiet down
a little bit.
1 comment:
Oh yes, yes, yes --I could cry at the beauty in your comments --may I say blessed oneness, for that idea of the kaleidoscopic singular configuration that is possible as a frame for existence, sacred configurable umbrella, that idea is sacred to me.
Some of this idea is explored in the video poam at this link
Thank you, thank you for this post.
[Yes --the greatest symmetry --and let me tell you how I love the limited fork for being limited to assisting in framing symmetries in this way]
Thanks again.
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