Barbed Wire and Windchimes
Temporal Lobe Fragment
Thu, April 16, 2009 - 11:22 PM
I am a thing and no thing
A confluence of things and more than the sum of things
I have never not been and never will be
I have always just begun, I look back on the end
I am time out of no time, I am the end of time,
And pretender of time,
I am all of nothing,
Some of never,
Approximately always
Forever
And say of that other self:
A thing and no thing,
A confluence of things and less and less of things,
Having never not been, never need be,
Having always begun, always just ending.
Time out of no time, who ends time portends time,
All of nothing,
Some of never,
Approximately always
Forever
Copyright 2009 Briar Rose
Photos: Neuron in brain; computer simulation of universe. Mark Miller, Brandeis University; Virgo Consortium for Cosmological Supercomputer Simulations, www.visualcomplexity.com, The New York Times.
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Fri, April 17, 2009 - 3:46 AM
Such a beautiful thing the neuron is....
and the universe as well.
I have been studying the forms of dementia this Spring. Partly to keep my license. And partly because the subject fascinates me. Most of my hospice patients have some form of it..... Your poem, and pictures, fit right in with what I am learning now. Thank you. Amma |
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Fri, April 17, 2009 - 5:22 AM
i like the slant of looking at it for both sides.
cool photos! |
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Fri, April 17, 2009 - 6:10 AM
Deconstruction..
well your poem was like synchronicity to me..
as I attempted to watch a netflix movie about the father of deconstruction.. Jacques Derrida en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction the movie was difficult to follow..as it was in french and he was kind of a difficult character.. but I got a sum of its whole! you know my adventures..as a netflix watcher...ya just never know what the hell I am going to find.. hehehe thought you would appreciate this article..about Deconstruction.. and luv'd your thoughts..and the process of which you collect them..and apply them to paper..hmm or bit's and the photo's are fabulous~ |
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Fri, April 17, 2009 - 6:12 AM
ps...a lil more about..Jacques Derrida
as he was into deconstruction..you can imagine what having a conversation with him would be like! never mind trying to do a photojournal of him and cannot imagine what it would be like to live with him..or..listen to him..teach.. he would have my mind and spirit in a twist..I am sure! |
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Fri, April 17, 2009 - 6:28 AM
oh and...
one thing he did say..that I really liked..was
there were two kinds of future.. the expected and the non expected..~ where you can plan for the future you know..and be totally surprised by the future ..you do not know..where things can change in a flash.. I am applying that to my life.. am awaiting the positive..unexpected! |
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Fri, April 17, 2009 - 6:30 AM
I suppose that can be extended too..
that which you can control..and that which is totally out of your control~
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Fri, April 17, 2009 - 9:21 AM
So I'm a deconstructionist now? Hey, that sure sounds a lot more impressive than, "Well, it was about time *something* replaced the Vegan Corned Beef and Cabbage recipe!"
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Fri, April 17, 2009 - 10:05 AM
there are no replacement for CornBeef and Cabbage!
in my world.. unless of course..you feel like ..deconstructing it! |
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Fri, April 17, 2009 - 6:42 PM
"All of nothing,
Some of never, Approximately always Forever" god I LOVE that! |
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Sat, April 18, 2009 - 10:32 AM
The human mind has, it seems, uniquely evolved with the need to contemplate and get to the bottom of concepts such as time, eternity, existence, cessation of existence, and nothingness--and is utterly, frustratingly, unable to find any way through that doesn't involve paradox. We're wired for transcendence and immortality--with probably NOTHING in nature supporting the aspiration. Until the nanobots and the mind uploads begin, this is the core existential dilemma.
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