Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Where I lived when I won 9 Little League games in a row
Mes Amis en Saint Hilaire
Le Rive Loiret is an idyllic placidly meandering strand,
sheltered by the gentle green forests of the Loire Valley
and delivered into light on the open plains of France
Small rowboats carrying children
glide over the carp and perch en ballet,
flashing en hommage au soliel,
just beneath the surface of the swirls.
The Loiret emanates,
Le Rive Loiret is an idyllic placidly meandering strand,
sheltered by the gentle green forests of the Loire Valley
and delivered into light on the open plains of France
Small rowboats carrying children
glide over the carp and perch en ballet,
flashing en hommage au soliel,
just beneath the surface of the swirls.
The Loiret emanates,
coursing brashly from beneath the ground.
And, after a fashion of a casual tour around
And, after a fashion of a casual tour around
La Cite d' Orleans,
she disappears;
she disappears;
gently subsiding
into the moist brown earth
that is
that is
the soul
of France.
In fact,
of France.
In fact,
it is a secret tributary of the great Rive Loire,
for which the Valley and her grand Chateaux
for which the Valley and her grand Chateaux
are named.
Although, at times
separated
by a day's walk,
they share the same source;
they share the same source;
They are the same waters.
Jeanne D'Arc slept on the banks of the Loiret;
she dipped her hands into its waters
Jeanne D'Arc slept on the banks of the Loiret;
she dipped her hands into its waters
and touched them to her brow,
while gliding in small boats
while gliding in small boats
across gentle eddies,
rippled by the brilliant flashes
rippled by the brilliant flashes
of the breaching carp and perch.
Was I eleven or twelve, when I knew;
although separated in time
Was I eleven or twelve, when I knew;
although separated in time
by half a millenium,
the children I saw in the boats,
the children I saw in the boats,
and the beloved girl saint;
had shared the same waters,
and were of the same source.
Vive La France
I won the 9 Little League games without benefit of a curveball.... or Jesus.
had shared the same waters,
and were of the same source.
Vive La France
I won the 9 Little League games without benefit of a curveball.... or Jesus.
Saturday, September 10, 2005
Nu? Diet News
gnfgNu? Diet News
(Flatoola, Uganda)Reuters
Researchers at the Dr. Ughatta B. Khiden-Mee Institute for Fads, Fat and the Fates,
have announced the findings of a 50,000 year old study of upright hominids.
The study represents and combines the results of over 11billion independent experiments,
commonly known as the entire history of Homo Sapien Sapiens.
The study demonstrates the following:
1. Diets require overweight people.
2. Overweight people require diets
3. People are diets.
The study reminds us that we used to have natural predators'
and that through a complete set of accidents and near misses and hits,
mankind no longer need adjust his grazing and feeding habits,
with relation to any reality, in which he knows himself to be
a source of protein for any other feeder.
In short, humans no longer see themselves as prey.
And, no longer needing to work all that much,
in order to produce a feeding moment,
and not having to exert any short burst explosive muscle work
in order simply to survive an encounter with a predator,
Mankind is stuck in evolutionary entropy; the very model of Sisiphysian Raison D'etre-lessness.
To compensate for this seeming lack of purpose within a fluid Darwinian model,
Man eats more than he needs whenever he can,
because his reptile brain insists on repeating (acting out) the mantra of all life:
the next meal may not be so easy.
You might have dinner or you might
be dinner.
Much of the course of the history of Human experience has been largely influenced
by what would have to, by all rights, be called a seeming mortal flaw in our construct;
Humans are largely inept hunters.
We are not so much a species of hunter gatherers,
as we are a species of failed hunters,
who have gathered together in order to survive.
The surprising benefit from being lousy hunters was that in their gathering;
humanity got to know eachother.
Food was usually the comfort between strangers or the cause of the lack of it.
Strangers are given food,
but they must not take it without the hospitality of the offer.
Food sharing with a stranger became the core behaviour
of a set of hopeful and affirming social interactions.
As most modern Americans are strangers unto themselves;
they keep offering themselves food,
to ease the awkward moments of entertaining a stranger.
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c.9/10/2000
