Peace and light, E — Posted with WordPress for BlackBerry.
I’ve always wondered what’s really meant by saying that you’ve got the whole world inside of you.
“Sometimes,” said the woman in red sitting outside the courthouse.
“Sometimes you gotta,” she said to her co-workers, the red jersey
Of her dress clinging to her ample curves while she kicked
The granite ledge where she sat amidst a din of everyone talking
At every one else, not listening, some smoking, but not eating, on a break
Of some kind. Maybe they were jurors not court staff or perhaps visitors.
Funny that they didn’t have some kind of badge, all of them talking.
All of them talking and looking like they did the same type of work or had something
In common, talking all at once to a group that was familiar, but didn’t care to listen.
Amidst the talking, too many at once, and the clacking of her heels, like a kid, against
The granite ledge, “sometimes you just gotta be quiet,” she said to nobody listening.
Spring is busting out all over.
I am led to think of the stories of dyads and binaries, triads and trios, pentacles, and the divisible and indivisible.
I used to go to the movies several times a month. As independent cinemas closed and viewing opportunities moved in-home (where I don’t have a television), my desire to go to the movies ebbed. In the past year or two, I am lucky if I see a movie once every several weeks, preferring to spend my time in practice and study or conversation. I still keep my eye out for a film that looks like an invitation to beauty or engaged thinking. I was called earlier this week to see Habemus Papam by this:
“The unanswerable question at [Habemus Papam’s] heart is this: How does a leader hold onto his sense of self when the job he is about to take both demands and denies his own humanity?” Michael O’Sullivan for the Washington Post.
Habemus Papum is at one level a small story; it is just a few days in the life of a select group of individuals. It is rendered with charm and love, but it asks some very big questions and ones highly relevant to any who contemplate (in this country that makes a cult of celebrity and celebrities in politics and spirituality and not just on stage and screen) what it means for an individual or a ruling body to have or to seek leadership, power, or worship, or to be given it in greater quantity than the one(s) on whom they are conferred can handle.
