on living today as if it were today
Sep. 1st, 2002 03:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gurdonarkWe're an instant from the onset of the holidays. Halloween, Easter, Thanksgiving, Samhain, Yule, Days of the Dead, Christmas, Solstice, Diwala, Chanukah, Harvest. We're celebrating Labor Day now. Sadly, I see some media, churches and stores even thinking about 9/11 memorials. I am a big believer in holidays and memorials. But it is just me, or is there anyone else who wishes we could all live as if today were just today? I'd love to be thankful every day. I'd love to have a generous spirit without the need for glitter or lights. I want to experience and share my memories and memorials as an inner ritual, without the need for outer show. I want to give gifts without boundaries, ask blessings without candlelight vigils. I want to pause each day to remember those less fortunate than I am. I want to feel four seasons every day. I will make my cathedral internal, and go there even when the candles are not lit.
I toured the Swiss government buildings once. The tour guide said "We have no gold or silver in our country, so we made our building from granite, onyx and wood. We have those in abundance". I love ritual and pageantry and nostalgia and tradition. But today I wish to live my life as if each day were every holiday, and no generous feeling, quiet moment or human kindness need be saved for a special time to share.
I toured the Swiss government buildings once. The tour guide said "We have no gold or silver in our country, so we made our building from granite, onyx and wood. We have those in abundance". I love ritual and pageantry and nostalgia and tradition. But today I wish to live my life as if each day were every holiday, and no generous feeling, quiet moment or human kindness need be saved for a special time to share.
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concurrence
Date: 2002-09-01 02:39 pm (UTC)That's always a big deal for me. However, I'm dreading the 9/11 stuff. Not because I don't care, but because that's not how I prefer to cope. It's bad enough all the Diana, Princess of Wales stuff that's been on BBC America lately. Have you noticed? I didn't get to see Manchild this week! It's my new Anthony Head fix since he's not on Buffy anymore.
Oh, and it's cool to know you were watching Ziggy Stardust on AMC Friday. So were we. And I saw The Last Waltz for the first time.
Halloween!!!
Re: concurrence
Date: 2002-09-01 03:42 pm (UTC)Maybe those saint days are the right idea--one has somebody to be beholden to every day in that system, and yet the stories change!
It is cool to imagine the two of you watching that even as I was watching it. What a different time that was! It's hard to imagine now how different from anything else that was then. Today was Godspell--I know it's "not rock", but I love that one, too.
I remember being 13, and staying up to watch Humble Pie on the old, great, lamented show In Concert. This would have been about a year before you were born. The opening act was an unknown band called Roxy Music which featured this glam lead singer named Ferry with slicked down hair. What a different time that, what a different place. Imagine? 30 years ago!
"time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth, pull on a finger, another finger, then the cigarette goes out".
Yorick is so seasonal, by the way for
Halloween
Re: concurrence
Date: 2002-09-01 03:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-09-01 05:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-09-01 06:27 pm (UTC)I am always amazed at how much you can make happen in those little spaces.
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Date: 2002-09-01 07:49 pm (UTC)