ancient wisteria vine
laces through trees
still waking
from winter's sleep
binds the dead up
with the living
but this cold sailor heart
is still
out of place and time
an anachronistic device
running down the clock
running all these nowhere roads
keeping the wheels hot
until my ship comes back in
Therein lies the problem of our days xxx
David RL Moore
"God blessed me, I'm a free man
With no place free to go..."
Cheers, David )
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4C9i8E05bgI&pp=ygUNa2luZ3Mgb2YgbGVvbg
"binds the dead up with the living"
I like the image of that in the vine...the connection whether desired or not, whether supported or not is there and cannot be severed.
We're all running to stand still in this place.
Great imaginative ideas Landi.
David
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Landi Cruz
Fri 4th Apr 2025 13:11
I guess that does sum up the lot of it. That's how I see it, anyway.
I heard a story on a podcast about the value of independent play amongst youth the other day on the way home from a job fair--a personal anecdote to show the effects of interfering with a child's creativity and the arrogance of adults in constantly assessing what's correct and valuable against overly rigid standards. The man was a parent of a young boy who hated school from a very young age, complaining specifically that he was expected to be a puppet (a very astute an mature observation, I would say). His father went on to tell of a particularly acute confrontation between his son and his educators. He says the boy was nine (maybe third grade?) and was receiving instruction as to proper punctuation. The boy had taken to using punctuation after his favorite writer, EE Cummings--a habit so frustrating to his teacher that a meeting was called with the boy, his father, the principal and two psychologists. At said meeting, the boy didn't mince words. His father says he told them all to go to hell.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LwE4LNP8zsI&pp=ygUYcmFkaW9oZWFkIHJlYXNvbmFibGUgbWFu
PS
The interviewee wrote a book on the subject and hints at a correlation between lack of independence from adult oversight with rising rates of depression and suicide among youth.
Very interesting stuff...
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6pJSsRyPEEWDiu5DeCWcZT?si=5SloxuUST4CdyEcnL4TSFw