Sunday Stream (227) ~ clueless

[mtmynd]

clueless
or
Resuscitating Paul Reps Without Haiku

Today is another day within the first quarter of the moon, which should be conducive to something besides writing about the clueless. That's exactly how I feel about Streaming today - clueless. Clueless as to what to write about is not a good way to begin any writing subject unless I can squeeze out something pertaining to the feeling of clueless-ness. But I don't even care to do that today.

I'd like to write a brilliant haiku... a haiku that would send a shiver of joy up the old, aged spine of Paul Reps, but Paul is no longer with us on this plane so I would be clueless in knowing if Paul Reps would indeed find some haiku I wrote to be spine-tingling. Besides I am not tuned to any haiku channel today either, unfortunately.

I'm still using this Dell Latitude laptop because my old Dell is still sitting at my desk unable to connect to the internet. I have the best of intentions of giving the old machine a good cleaning. I have 3 cans of air sitting close by waiting to blow out the cobwebs and dust that probably has accumulated behind the shell that holds all the brains of the unit. No guarantee that will work but it sure should be a first effort. A deep cleaning is necessary for damn near anything the hu'man makes to improve their daily life. But when one of these machines of convenience no longer operate they way they are intended, improvement goes out the door quickly replaced by aggravation. None of needs any additional aggravation in our lives.

With my chosen 'handle', "mtmynd", I especially should recognize that today is one of those days when my mind is empty. Just barely enough there to write this Sunday Stream which is about as close to a stream of consciousness piece of writing I am capable of putting into words. But at least knowing that does not aggravate... annoys a little, maybe, but not aggravate.

This is Christmas week... five more days today. I am not a big Christmas guy anymore. I probably haven't been longer than I would admit to myself. Something about the word, 'Scrooge' comes to mind, even though I'm not a stingy person but when this season comes around, it's the same every year and even more so each year... buy, buy, buy... show your love and buy anything to give... to show those you love how much you care about them. But it's the buy that matters to every commercial on the tube, every reason for the daily newspaper, every reason for every website that sells product, and every other way of attempting the seduction of one's charge card to ease out of the wallet or purse and add another credit to the monthly bill. These folks are like all of us, they need their money to pay their expenses like we all do. What are we to do? Buy smart.

I think I should be shutting this thing down. I've gotten nothing written that holds any thought or truth or meaning. Just words shot out of the cannon of my mind without a target or reason to do so. Only because it's Sunday and I expect it out of myself.

Maybe next Sunday, the last one of the year, will be better. I hope so. Until then -

Happy Holidays and Merry Celebrations
Keep it clean and keep it honest

cecil
20 December 2009

[judih]

thinking about ku
and solstice and being clueless

middle of night
dance to earth, wind and fire
ionic release

[Artguy]

Clueless...a great state completely without concept or I ...it just flows ..dancing naked around solstice fire....howling at your own howl...

[Arcadia]

muchas gracias for the clueless stream & the weightless gifts Cecil!!! Feliz navidad y 2010 para vos, Soo and toda la familia (dogs included! )

[mtmynd]

thx, judih... nice seeing you around the ol' stream despite it's slow flow yesterday. nice reply. you're good at that...

howdy, kurt... i like your attitude about being clueless... liberating. thanks, amigo.

hola, amiga mia, Veronica... you are very welcome. glad you enjoyed the stream (as clueless as it was! ) and readiing SooZen's piece.

<center>Chillax and Enjoy the End of the Year
... it's the last one for 2009!
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[Non Sum]

Whether your gifted mynd be ever so MT, MTMynd, the gift you bring that matters most is your presence here with us.
Kurt has it right. There is much to be said in favor of "clueless."

"Clueless," besides being the title of a favorite movie, probably describes my life's path better than any other word in the lexicon. It's also a good match with the ancient philosophy of 'Scepticism.' And, I suspect, that old Master Lao (feckless founder of Taoism) would also find it a fine fit, describing himself to be:

"... a simpleton, a do-nothing, not big enough yet to raise a hand, not grown enough to smile, a homeless, worthless waif. Men of the world have a surplus of goods, while I am left out, owning nothing. What a booby I must be not to know my way round, what a fool! The average man is so crisp and so confident that I ought to be miserable going on and on like the sea, drifting nowhere. All these people are making their mark in the world, while I, pig-headed, awkward, different from the rest, am only a glorious infant still nursing at the breast." (Tao Teh Ch'ing, #20)

[mtmynd]

Thx very much, N(icely)S(aid)... I humbly bow to your good taste

Purely coincidental that the use of the word, 'clueless', I chose for this Stream was and some time later after finishing it I see an article where Brittany Murphy (who I was 'clueless' of) had passed and she was in the movie by the same name... I assume on of your favorites. Perhaps coincidental goes deeper that the placid surface it projects, altho I haven't any idea what the connection would be should there be one.

(Another) great quotation you've provided. Master Lao's description of himself is indeed an amusing and brutally honest vision of himself that many should incorporate into their own personal lives. We are but basic hu'mans despite the masks we work so hard to show others what we would like to be rather than that true ego that oftentimes leads us by the proverbial nose when we least expect it. The Master here encourages that leading of his nose to show that it is not something we need to deny in ourselves. His legacy still echoes throughout the Tao... the Watercourse Way.