But there's a danger in loving somebody too much,
and it's sad when you know it's your heart you can't trust.
There's a reason why people don't stay where they are.
Baby, sometimes, love just ain't enough.
—"Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough"
The technology of silence The rituals, etiquette/ the blurring of terms silence not absence/ of words or music or even raw sounds/ Silence can be a plan rigorously executed/ the blueprint of a life/ It is a presence it has a history a form/ Do not confuse it with any kind of absence —Adrienne Rich, "Cartographies of Silence"
Posted by jo at Thursday, November 27, 2008 1 comments
Hang out for a while at Book Sale SM and got these two books—Iron John (nonfiction) by Robert Bly and Free Enterprise by the Jamaican Michelle Cliff and reserved The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen (nonfiction, kinsay interesado?)
"Biologists once thought that herons and geese created their puzzling ritual dances for fertility or survival reasons, that they were, in the word we use about ourselves, practical. But biologists in recent years, after extensive observations of herons, deer, geese, peacocks, and so on, have concluded that some ritual dances have no particular value for survival-they amount to display. Display embodies beauty and expressivenesses often united with a zany grace. Human beings tend to display at the front end; we emphasize the beauty in the face, and the face becomes emotionally expressive. Deer, however, display at both ends: white-tailed deer show beauty in the facial area and in the anal area with their gorgeous tails. Heron dances, peacock strutting, stag processions can all be considered as artistic or superfluous displays.
Longing is expressed, beauty, high spirits. The energies that are caught there, held in a formal moment, activate something in other birds or animals watching. So the displays are activating dances. The events are meant to be seen."
Posted by jo at Monday, November 24, 2008 0 comments
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