Friday, April 28, 2006

What technology and media offers heightens my visual and auditory senses. Shutting these up takes me to the very bottom of my being which is protected by a cocoon of interior silence. Silence that is so pervading and persistent yet calming and healing. Yes, thanks to this sanctuary. This is where I treat my wounds with the balm of peace and serenity. Further up and towards the center - there is a throne. I can only guess, look, theorize and ascertain.
Most of all I can only accept that here lives - - - God.
Our midst is filled with people who are potential motivators, inspirers, destroyers or friends. Eventually a person has only the self to get by in this world. The self negotiates through the mass of influences brought about by natural events , technological materials and cultural phenomena. Being impressed by the multitude of possible stimuli, the self sometimes drowns into a humbling and defacing situation and often times it comes to terms with the meaning of nothingness.

A nothingness that begs for meaning