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by CarmelaBear » Fri Dec 05, 2014 1:28 pm
We're stragglers, Dio.
This is where I get to ramble on about love. I love Joseph Campbell. I have been known to live on a diet of his scholarly work for weeks on end. Not an expert, mind you, but an enthusiast. He's not a guru, but a guide; my favorite teacher.
This forum is a gateway to a dark forest, where the adventure of real life takes place. I get to visualize the past and future in the present tense, as if the sun will always come up tomorrow and no clouds or trees will ever hide it. (There are studies that show that the brain of one who truly enjoys lots of sunshine tends to become dull and slow. It's called a "sun stupor".)
Thoughts turn to happy Little Orphan Annie. She is bliss incarnate, the very soul of confident, cute and popular. Not at all like the Bear, who can be a rather scary predator. Fat, fussy and furry.
On most days, she is seen practicing her passion. She enjoys living her thoughts. She thinks about the institutions and policies that would correct important problems in her home state of New Mexico, the Land of Enchantment. She envisions the best ways to end racial tensions in Ferguson and Manhattan. She thinks about the bottom to top approaches to international tensions. She is a dove-bear, who opposed the warrior adventures in the Middle East, and reads Chomsky and Chalmers and Khanna and Unger with interest.
She knows she is never alone. She loves being here, right here in the dark forest of the hero's adventure, where the sun cannot shine away her ability to think, and the brain is capable of working at a good clip.
The Bear is in a sealed and safe world, where the sun will not come up until tomorrow, (thank God). Be assured: it will never be tomorrow. Today, the adventure continues. While Clemsy works on the new platform, CarmelaBear is constructing a new personal website and living her passion. She lives on a faraway planet where the path to bliss is guaranteed for everyone, including those who do not share her love for humanity, the Earth, and the miracle of the individual human being.
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Once in a while a door opens, and let's in the future. --- Graham Greene