Mile Marker Zion

[SadLuckDame]

Mingo, this is a fascinating dip into writing.

[the mingo]

What am I doin' here ? It's quarter to two in the morning for blessed sake! ... Thx Dame, I did get to rollin' with the thing & enjoyed it. Never know what's gonna happen. Paintin' or writin' or just plain talking like right now. Thx very much for readin' & sayin'. I groove (how dated is that?) on your stuff too ya know. Ya got this way this thing you do sometimes when you're nailing a line to the wall that just gets me smilin' or goin' o wow just look how she did that! And then I go riffing off on the surprise ya gave me. Yeah, it's like that. You imagination's child like the most of the rest of us here. Just keep doin'.

[the mingo]

[judih]

it's always good to wake up!
november, alright!
yesterday was july, so what?

Earth
spins with or without
calendars

[the mingo]

Earth spins no lie, judih. I think we all get dizzy from it. Went foundation hunting yesterday with Nancy & my sister following the trail of ghost stories that took us into a wildlife management area to the east of here. Not the greatest of ideas during deer season but it did get us out of the house. Sister brought her metal detector but we kept getting rousted by DEC cops up in there checking out the hunters. Other than that had a good time looking for a ghost town & following legends on a beautiful day.

[the mingo]

Waking up in the morning. On the floor next to the bed a Bible, a book of coyote stories and a pair of glasses. There was a time I didn't need the glasses.

Intersecting a ghost.

The African underbelly. History but historically ignored. The ocean. More to ignore.

With money it don't matter how much you have. With reading it don't matter how much you do.

Got belly? Flaunt it. Let the gods know you are doing well.

There are nuances to everything. With mankind no one lives long enough to appreciate the misunderstanding of understanding.

I've asked my government not to give me dead people as a matter of policy but they are in the business of dead people & business is good. No one is interested in dead people except the fathers mothers wives sons daughters brothers sisters of the dead people. I'm sure there is a critical mass threshold issue in there somewhere but it seems not to have been reached yet. By anyone.

[mtmynd]

the inevitability of death is something that we cannot seem to accept graciously given the fact that so many die without leaving behind a reason or purpose that we can appreciate. but our feelings, no matter how sad or how dire the circumstance, is never enough until we cross the threshold of sorrow and pain and realize that we, too, will one day follow all the dead upon what journey shall remain a mystery that may indeed be a gift we've all been waiting for. until that time i live with the acceptance that life is only for the living... what else could possibly accept it?

[stilltrucking]

That is what I admired about the people who have created so much government inflicted death. they seemed to accept it so graciously.

Sorry mingo, I am so sick of war. So sick of seeing politicians give Veterans day speeches at the tombs of dead heroes.

It is the sickness unto death as Soren called it I suppose

[the mingo]

You're right mt, what else could accept it.

[the mingo]

Jack, I saw an advertisement in the local rag couple of days ago from a local store having a "Veteran's Day Sale" "Two Days Only" It was a full page ad with a guy in a sport suit banging a drum and a woman also smartly dressed pretending to be marching while blowing a bugle. In a younger day it just would have made me angry. These days it just makes me want to retch. "Hurry In! Two Days Only! Don't Miss Out!" Veteran's Day should be marked as if it were a reverse Christmas. No commerce. No work. No parades. No speeches. No talk. No photo ops of no politician putting no arm around any service member alive or dead. As much silence as possible from coast to coast.
For 24 hours. Respect. For them. For ourselves.

[sooZen]

ahhh, silence and wisdom, such rare and beautiful things.

and a belated thank you for the art for me. I was touched and your touch is inspiring.

[the mingo]

Thx sooZ. You're welcome & I'm glad you enjoyed it. Been over on your site a couple of times checkin' things out. I have some beadwork here that I'd like ya to see. Just ain't had the chance to take pics an post 'em for ya. Maybe this weekend if the world don't end.

[sooZen]

Cool, I look forward to that.

[the mingo]

There was this guy who went to the mountains to write a book about going to the mountains because there were no mountains in his own life. A simple game of kick the can would have sufficed had a little imagination been added. There was ice up there then when he went. There is less ice there these days. Got some folks in a tizzy, the shrinking ice. Anyways he went & he wrote his book. That piece of writing got as elevated as the mountains he went to until it got recognized as literature. All because of a lack of a little imagination. If that's the way it's got to be who needs any part of it ? A man can gain the world & lose his own soul under such conditions. The guy came back & moved all the way to Montana just to blow his head off with a shotgun. Now tell me where the writing is in all that? The only reason a guy, any guy, blows his own head off is cuz there is no fun left.
That's all it takes. No fun = no head.

[mtmynd]

The only reason a guy, any guy, blows his own head off is cuz there is no fun left.

His life became dead serious. What a waste of an original writer. Not the first time, tho, and won't be the last as long as there are writers.