References of Cool

I like the references in the end of the second stanza, "Most of the ancient groves are gone, sacred to Kuan Yin and Artemis." They fit so perfectly with the chaos that is described before because Kuan Yin, also known as Guan Yin, is the East Asian goddess who "hears the sounds or cries of the World" and Artemis is the Greek goddess of the wildland, the both of them have a connection to the affairs of the Earth and the reference fits in well with the whole idea that the Earth is going through traumatic times and those two are connected and feel it which attaches the pain of the Earth through the wishes of gods.

The connection that the author makes between Lucretius and today is pretty cool how he weaves them together, "An artist in Chicago-think of a great trading city in Dacia or Thracia." That is the way that the author keeps a running dialogue with someone who is gone in a sense because he relates our trading city to today and it opens up the discussion to a new viewpoint for another person to jump in and continue the conversation that is being had in that specific section between the author and Lucretius.

My favorite thing in this entire poem hands down is the section that is long and drawn out, "The book will tell her that the gleaming appliance that kept her milk cold in the night required chlorofluorocarbons." This is one of the greatest images I think I have imagined in my head in the fact that instead of simply using the word refrigerator the author chose instead to take an artistic way of painting a refrigerator as a bad thing and he is able to tell the reader what it is and at the same time get the point across that he is talking to someone who has no idea what he is talking about. I wish I could do that with these blog posts.

Poem About the Spirit

So often we box in the Spirit and tell others they can't be used

But doesn't that box the spirit in to prevent our fears from coming true?

That the person who is imperfect in our eyes

Can't be used by God because their faith is their disguise

Both the person who refuses to believe and the one who is wrong can't be used

That is our fears bursting through

I once heard perfect love casted out all fear

But you can tell that perfect love is nowhere near

We take those we don't like to see in our lives

Then we wall them in and keep them locked up inside

The world was created by a living God whose image we were created in

I know why we box them out and its cuz our sin

Pride

God uses the broken and rarely the secure

Jealousy

God always gives those who give, more

Fear

God uses what we don't understand to show us the way

Foolishness

God always gives those who talk the least the most to say

I guess its a realization that those who have it altogether really don't

And that those who don't have it, are altogether

Its a step away from being complete which is a hard process

But then again nothing in life is easy.

-Nate Fleming

It is something that just came to my mind and I shared it through this blog about how we treat the mentally handicapped when it comes to the Holy Spirit. I felt that essay by Steven M. Fetke "The Spirit of God Hovered."

End Well

I am a big fan of how a movie ends. If it has this long story that seems to make no sense but then at the end there is this one scene that ties it all together I am a lover. Book of Eli does an ending that no one would expect but it makes sense when you go back and watch it. I Robot takes an unexpected twist, Push has an end that will knock your socks off, Precious has an ending that is open ended. I am a huge fan of how something ends because that affects how you view its beginning and its middle. Same with books that are able to twist the end in such a way that it opens up a new viewpoint of the story that was otherwise left unknown. I say all this to come to a conclusion that this drama can fall into the same category as those aforementioned pieces of art. The whole play the characters begin to take shape and form into people that are rarely understood and often outcast, to become people that are in the spotlight and their nuances laid out in the open for all to see. It has a way of going through and painting them to be people with a disability that we are unable to understand because we feel like we have never been there. Though the moment you get to the ending when Jack says that he is leaving in the scene where they all flip out about it you start to get a glimpse of the motivations of the characters. The characters are all driven by want of relationship solidarity. It shows in the end when Jack, instead of being a caretaker, becomes a friend to Arnold and you hear the train announcer announce the stops to Russia. It is almost as if the writer is saying that this is what Arnold wanted the entire time, friendship, and the author shows that by telling the audience that he ended up going to Russia. Russia is a foreign land for him and so is his friendship with Jack.

This Is Great

At first I thought that this was distasteful. You are not able to make a comedy involving the mentally handicapped. The reason being is that if you want the audience to laugh then its all too easy to just go for the easy laughs and make fun of the people you are acting as or writing in there. Though the more I read it the more I discovered that what I heard about comedy is true. Its funny no matter what. That caused me to reflect on how I approach something that is so near and dear to who I am as a person and to the craft that I have spent years attempting to perfect and am still trying to work out. I often resort to degrading the people I am trying to make laugh. I am beginning to realize that comedy has so much more of a potential to become another art form and slowly is working its way in that direction. I look at art and art does not degrade a person. It has a way of lifting you up or taking you to a low but does not outright attack a person. So with that applied to my craft I realize that though it is easier to degrade someone in the name of comedy. I have been inspired to take what I do to a new level, to make my enjoyment of humor an escape to those of everyday life, to become the reason a person smiles breaking a chain of frowns. To fulfill the potential that God himself has set before me to move away from the juvenile comedy as a way of laughter through the degradation of a creation made in his image and more towards an escape from the reality that the person I am with is currently in, to a new and happier place and even if for a second it was long enough for me to have changed that person's outlook on that moment and changes the glass which they look through to one that is lighter.