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Stars & Songs on the Earth
10/1/03 22:00I just heard the phrase "...encourages Iraq to adopt their tactics and send people strapped with explosives into battle against the West" on the radio.
I don't want to live in a time like this. I guess no people who go through a time like this want to live in it. I mean, my parents saw Kennedy killed, and I guess that wasn't a thing to be too happy about.
But I keep thinking about Vietnam, and the Cuban missile crisis. And what people just aren't seeing, saying, or doing.
There is goodness in this world. I've been reading bits of it...Les Mis and A Book Dragon, one of my perennial favorites, came into the library today. I've been thinking about more good bits of it, like how people can give you books and life is good. Like how you can talk to people and be all warm and happy in your soul, and like how teeth are a marvelous invention. I've been rediscovering how much fun making something, really making something, is, when working on my con costume.
But I also saw the movie "Bowling for Columbine." (Please, if you can get to see it, go see it.) And a statment the director made stayed with me and keeps being more and more applicable: "people this fearful of life [referring to Americans] shouldn't be given access to guns."
The world is scary sometimes.
It is also green, and good, and the stars are beautiful.
And music is amazing. Someone said: any culture that can invent music can't be all bad. I'll keep believing that until the day the universe stops singing.
I don't want to live in a time like this. I guess no people who go through a time like this want to live in it. I mean, my parents saw Kennedy killed, and I guess that wasn't a thing to be too happy about.
But I keep thinking about Vietnam, and the Cuban missile crisis. And what people just aren't seeing, saying, or doing.
There is goodness in this world. I've been reading bits of it...Les Mis and A Book Dragon, one of my perennial favorites, came into the library today. I've been thinking about more good bits of it, like how people can give you books and life is good. Like how you can talk to people and be all warm and happy in your soul, and like how teeth are a marvelous invention. I've been rediscovering how much fun making something, really making something, is, when working on my con costume.
But I also saw the movie "Bowling for Columbine." (Please, if you can get to see it, go see it.) And a statment the director made stayed with me and keeps being more and more applicable: "people this fearful of life [referring to Americans] shouldn't be given access to guns."
The world is scary sometimes.
It is also green, and good, and the stars are beautiful.
And music is amazing. Someone said: any culture that can invent music can't be all bad. I'll keep believing that until the day the universe stops singing.
