When we came back from overseas, changed in ways we didn’t yet know, and walked a real city again, Larry told me you need to get away from the actual experience of something before pondering it too hard. Lay some distance down, he said. 39 years ought to do it.
I thoroughly enjoy everything you write, Victor, and thank you for sharing a piece of your life and experience in this story. I look forward to your posts. Keep up the great work!
Life does come at us, brother. And death. I feel for the loss of your friend. This resonates: "You’ve got to rip it up by the roots every couple of years and shove it into other soil".
This one too, captures my attention. I think of you sometimes when I'm reading George Saunders' book on writing. I think, I bet Victor would love this! I do and I'm hardly ever a fiction writer. :)
Yes I have the book and the PBS series on DVD but make it simple Utube has the 8 minute video The Humbling of Indra with Campbell and Bill Moyer.
This myth gave me understanding of , that nothing is permanent other than on/off, yinyang, front and back and most important every inside most have an outside all boxes have inside and outside
Although a Klein bottle the inside and outside are the same
Well my dog remembers when he was Indra and throw the thunder bolt and said what a good boy am I and working is way up from sn ant through many life spans and one more step to human life
That was courtesy of Joseph Campbell’s
Story “The Humbling of Indra” from his Power of Myth
I thoroughly enjoy everything you write, Victor, and thank you for sharing a piece of your life and experience in this story. I look forward to your posts. Keep up the great work!
Life does come at us, brother. And death. I feel for the loss of your friend. This resonates: "You’ve got to rip it up by the roots every couple of years and shove it into other soil".
Be well.
Thanks for sharing this heartfelt story! I'm hoping this was cathartic.
This one too, captures my attention. I think of you sometimes when I'm reading George Saunders' book on writing. I think, I bet Victor would love this! I do and I'm hardly ever a fiction writer. :)
Yes I have the book and the PBS series on DVD but make it simple Utube has the 8 minute video The Humbling of Indra with Campbell and Bill Moyer.
This myth gave me understanding of , that nothing is permanent other than on/off, yinyang, front and back and most important every inside most have an outside all boxes have inside and outside
Although a Klein bottle the inside and outside are the same
Well my dog remembers when he was Indra and throw the thunder bolt and said what a good boy am I and working is way up from sn ant through many life spans and one more step to human life
That was courtesy of Joseph Campbell’s
Story “The Humbling of Indra” from his Power of Myth
Yep the mistakes and sins we pile on in our mind , that are never forgotten ; as we slowly forget the ones that cared and trusted us.
Hell is not a deep abyss , it is buried in our mind. No matter how much we follow the middle way , the razors edge our own sins never go away.