words, words, words
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If I begin to detail myself here, will you understand?
P. I am me
Q. I don't always know exactly who that is
R. I am Quaker
S. I like words and playing with them
T. I like genmaicha tea
U. I like the word napkin more than most others
V. I spend time walking my neighborhood
W. I cook rice often
X. I sleep well most every night
Y. I eat large amounts of fruit and vegetables
Z. I munch, sleep, write, create, cook, bike, watch, walk, listen, hope, learn, drink, live, breathe, touch, know, question, taste, copy, read, stare, carry, talk, dance, finger, try.
raisin@gmail.com
albums:
Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs
Erasure: I Say, I Say, I Say
Depeche Mode: Black Celebration
The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
Marvin Gaye: What's Going On?
David Bowie: Hunky Dory
George Michael: Listen without Prejudice
George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
Yo La Tengo: And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
songs:
Wild is the Wind: Nina Simone
Come Undone: Duran Duran
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini: Rachmaninov
My Funny Valentine: Chet Baker
Feeling Yourself Disintegrate: The Flaming Lips
This Must Be the Place: The Talking Heads
Hyperballad: Bjork
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Wednesday, March 19, 2003
The teacher I despised the most in college, an English teacher of all things, taught me nonetheless an important lesson. Words don't work very well. Instead of directly explaining what we have on our mind, we end up using countless words in our blustered attempts. Sometimes you have to act, instead. Maybe all the time we should act, and words just help us to act.
I'm struggling to decide whether I will act, if the bombing starts before 7:30 CST and the peace rally meets downtown. Of course, the acting that I might do is speaking, using words. I've spoken anonymously for quite a while, four months since I first publicly spoke against the war. I've been itching to speak again since that day. Will I defy my commander's order if i do this? Will i place myself in jeopardy? is it worth it? I don't know. I've been furiously trying to answer those questions for a long time. Maybe I won't know until the moment before.
during the first Iraq war, the US military jailed 30 conscientious objectors. I don't know if they didn't fill out their paperwork right, if they caused other problems, or if they were just over in iraq already, and therefore in the way. Yes, unless they had committed some crime, the jailings were against military law. doesn't mean it won't happen again.
No, I don't know. all those questions i can feel you asking me, I don't know the answer to. I'm working, praying, thinking, wondering, searching.
3:00 PM
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