Sunday, August 28, 2005
i have lived on the lip of insanity
wanting to know reasons
knocking on a door.
it opens.
i've been knocking from inside!
-rumi
SACRED ADVERTISEMENT Life is a vast and intricate conspiracy designed to keep us well supplied with blessings. What kind of blessings? Palatial homes, attractive lovers, lottery winnings, career success? Maybe. But just as likely: interesting surprises, unexpected challenges, gifts we hardly know what to do with, conundrums that force us to get smarter. Novelist William Vollman referred to the latter types of blessings when he said that "the most important and enjoyable thing in life is doing something that's a complicated, tricky problem for you that you don't know how to solve."
to be continued...
wanting to know reasons
knocking on a door.
it opens.
i've been knocking from inside!
-rumi
SACRED ADVERTISEMENT Life is a vast and intricate conspiracy designed to keep us well supplied with blessings. What kind of blessings? Palatial homes, attractive lovers, lottery winnings, career success? Maybe. But just as likely: interesting surprises, unexpected challenges, gifts we hardly know what to do with, conundrums that force us to get smarter. Novelist William Vollman referred to the latter types of blessings when he said that "the most important and enjoyable thing in life is doing something that's a complicated, tricky problem for you that you don't know how to solve."
to be continued...
# posted by Phoenix : 1:20 PM
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when did writing get to be so frickin' hard? this shit is not the truth i tell you. not the truth indeedy.
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