Originally Posted Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Now there's a hell of an Oprah moment for you. It sounds like the introduction to a self-help book. Why are we given to making such statements? Why are we given to thinking they mean anything. Why do we lend them any credence?
Well. . . what else is there to do?
Psychological flux. Emotional flux.
The key is knowing when to run.
"Make it new!" Who said that? I'll give you a clue. He supported the fascists in Italy during WWII and spent the rest of his life in an asylum for the mad. He was an anti-semite.
Got it? Ezra Pound. I can't read his poetry. That is what we get from a man with a slogan.
"Keep it fresh!" Who said that? I'll give you a clue. It wasn't a major bakery or food chain.
Q survived the quake. He will revisit Burning Man. Life is ceaselessly changing yet somehow the same. Even disaster can't keep you from the future past. I should join him there, the goat-footed old balloon man.
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