The Joys of Living a Poetic Life

Poetry is a threat if there are things in your system that are very hard to face because poetry is about being open and being spiritually, mentally, and emotionally well. A poetic life may mean sacrificing material overabundance, otherwise known as clutter, but you always sacrifice something, and to us, it's worth it.

Poetry is about consciousness and the pleasures of art. Other art forms can provide a bridge to your poetic self, if there are obstacles that need to be overcome. Yoga reestablishes and retrains breathing when parts of your natural self have been suppressed by a civilization that does not find those parts supportive of its values.

25.9.09

Rita Wong at Irving Barber

The igniting Rita Wong talked for an hour to an inexplicably drowsy looking audience at Irving K. Barber Learning Center on Thursday afternoon. She left this writer with food for several days' thought minimum, which I'm going to use as my flimsy excuse for not cooking much this week.

The vision I synthesized from her talk was of a society more advanced than ours, which used technology in consciousness of nature and fit its infrastructure around natural systems in a harmonious way. Entirely possible from a technological/scientific/creative point of view.

2 comments:

  1. GribbitSeptember 27, 2009 at 4:47 PM

    I would like to live in that society with advanced humans. Where the bottom line is not profit.

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  2. LouiseSeptember 27, 2009 at 5:00 PM

    The bottom line is well being, which is even better than profit. It is not a poor society either. There is no reason technology can't work with instead of against nature. It means using creative people as well as tech people. There is a solution to any problem.

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