Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

I've always been uncomfortable with '42' btw. But for me it had more to do with what I was taught in church at a young age. They had a whole mythology of numerology, and 42 was bad, but just add 2 and 44 was solid. Subtract 2 and forty was some sort of transformative thing, both good and bad. Yeah, ...

A-men!

Yes it does. Ten to the tenth power is inconceivable.

I read this in one of Joe Campbell's books,
and I considered him an intellectual giant
beyond any possible sort of reproach.
For awhile at least.

I dunno, maybe I'm wrong. I told her that I won't interact with her daughter (my niece) if she insists on some sort of fight each time. And then of course I was accused of "hating" her.

So true. I just had a long, drawn-out fight (fight? uh, let's not call it that, more like um, intense discussion) with my sister on this very concept.

There is no meaning
until you give it meaning.
Or so I read in a book
one time.

Parts of this sound like it was some sort of "phishing" scam. But ... probably not, I suppose. I've become super paranoid in recent years about electronic money transfers--but I guess that's just a phobia of mine.

Andromeda is beyond the Milky Way.
Farthest thing we can see with our eyes.
A couple million light years away.
A galaxy with a trillion stars.
Just a faint smudge in the sky.

Yep. Earth as a ramblin' gamblin' rock alone in a crowd of stars with its fickle moon tagging along (never the same place nor face in the sky) ...

Always trim the unwanted and unwarranted obstructions. Let's get on that wavelength.

It was wide open when I was young.
Then some of the roads closed.
Some hit fences, or ridges
with only star terrains beyond.

I wandered on a spinning rock
in a crowd of stars, a lump of iron
and silica, fickle moon in tow,
alone, like a Las Vegas gambler
at a table in a crowd.

Had big plans to travel across the country.
I left on 9/10/01, then September 11th happened.

I am about to retire.
For now, I just too often tire.

Well, if someone happened to watch me pass, sitting at less than the speed of light... Ah well, the whole thing's a bit silly.

And one of my other favorites: "You can't have everything. Where would you put it?"...