Thursday, October 27, 2011
Hmmm...
My Steven Wright moment of the day: being stuck on a two lane highway behind a truck with a big 'ole orange sign behind it that says, "Do Not Follow."
To Sleep Perchance to Dream
It’s the middle of the night and I’m awake. As soon as I opened my eyes, I knew what time
it was without looking at the clock.
2:45 AM. I rolled over, hoping to
find Morpheus again, but Mr. DN is there instead and snoring. Rain is pelting down on the tin roof of the
second floor over the kitchen below. It’s
no use. I have to get up.
It’s a wonder I can sleep at all. Time seems to be speeding up faster and
faster these days. I blink and another
has passed by. Gone are those exquisite summer
days of my childhood where time seemed to stand still. For a moment, I wonder, briefly, if that is
what Terrance McKenna was experiencing during his psychedelic drug induced
visions deep in the steamy jungles of South America – a realization that as you
get older, time does indeed seem to move faster. He came up with Timewave Zero. I feel remorse.
The remorse I feel is not for the golden days of my past,
it is for our future. I’ve been watching
the events unfold surrounding the Occupy Wall Street movement with a strange
detachment. While I fully understand and
sympathize where they are coming from - I have been raging against that machine
for years - I can only imagine where it all will lead. The Corporatocracy has its talons in too deep
into our economic and political systems that to rend them free would surely
cause a mortal wound to our society. It
is a sobering thought. Too sobering when
all I want to do is sleep.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
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