Characters In A Play

You have to consider the possibility that
While riding the bus home

There is a crowd of
Loud, noisy problem children
Distracting your attention, while
Someone else quietly watches you
Like it or not
You are on display
You can't always have those window shutters to hide behind
You must learn to balance your
Internalization and externalization
Don't worry about being observed
Welcome it!
Accept the challenge of being watched by
Giving them a dance they'll never forget
You are the seer who is seeing and is seen
Look right back at them
You're all characters in a play

Larry sat quietly inside Levi and Vincent’s cave on top of Mt. Sporaticus realizing he was 100% responsible for where he was, who he was here and now.

To Larry’s delight, Levi entered the cave. He was beginning to feel a little lonely, but he knew that was good for him to sit here and go through this self-contemplation. He had been sitting quietly meditating while admiring all of Levi’s paintings.

Breathing out a long sigh, Levi sat down beside Larry. The sound of his sigh told Larry that something wasn’t right.

 

Your actions are defining your reality

Where once your parents reacted to your acts of defiance

By labeling you strong-headed and

Sending you to military school

In order to get you back in touch

With the status quo

You would've reacted differently about

Being in a place you didn't want to be if

You had known then what you know now

Instead of moping and sulking and

Rebelling

By stealing a tank and driving it downtown so that the head-master

Would have no choice but

To expel you from military school

You would have stayed and adapted and possibly

Would have made friendships

That would have lasted a lifetime

Gumption-[2]

I like the word "gumption" because it's so homely and so forlorn and so out of style it looks as if it needs a friend and isn't likely to reject anyone who comes along. . .seems to have dropped out of use.  I like it also because it describes exactly what happens to someone who connects with Quality.  He gets filled with gumption. . .a person filled with gumption doesn't sit around dissipating and stewing about things.  He's at the front of the train of his awareness, watching to see what's up the track and meeting it when it comes.  That's gumption. [1]

That gumption prods you into going out

Two Saturday nights in a row to

Dance alone,

Without any real or unreal expectations

You no longer think about

I'm dancing with myself

As a lonely clown

But dancing with self-awareness and clarity

Any buzz or high you're getting now is

Created by your own flow of energy

This is your night out 

Self-evolving is now in your lexicon

You don't need to pronounce or proclaim this to the world, because

You're totally at peace putting

Sporaticus to your mind

A mind no longer

Divided against itself

 

 

At 56 years of age, Larry Brite wasn’t happy with himself because he wasn’t the best he’d like to be. He’d made mistakes and miscalculations. Too many. If his Dad were still alive, he would’ve snickered and sneered at him like the time Larry told him his hourly wage when he had worked for a major airline.

Who is Malcolm Strachan? He’s the guy who won the Pulitzer Prize for reporting on a League of Supra-Heroes taking over the city that was theirs all along. . .Sporaticus!

And since he was the guy who won the Pulitzer Prize he believed he and only he would get an exclusive interview with the now infamous Mr. Incognito. Malcolm’s tongue is dripping because he knows an interview with Mr. Incognito will get him national airtime.

 

You need to experience changes and challenges, and

You need to have your imagination

Fooled from time to time

Internalizing is okay, as long as it's not too excessive

Remember

You can't hide behind the window shutters

You must externalize

You must encounter folks in a town

Where someone knows someone who knows everybody else

Who now know you

You must get outside to slip and slide on the icy pavement,

Get rained on

Even without an umbrella that can get ripped and torn and broken in a windy storm

You must endure the heat and humidity

During a hot summer day

And feel the same heat

Emitted off the brick buildings at night

As you walk by and touch them on the way home

 

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[1]  Pirsig, Robert M.  Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.  New York:  Bantam Books,         New Age Edition, 1981, p. 272

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The Red Bean Bag Series: Ramp It Up! Double Up!

 

 

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The Red Bean Bag Series: Author's Commentary

 

 

BLOG FUSION AGAIN

you have to consider the possibilty that

while riding on the bus home

there is a crowd of

loud, noisy problem children

Distracting your attention, while

Someone else quietly watches you

Like it or not

You are on display

 

You can't alway have those window shutters to hide behind

You must learn to balance your

Internalization and externalization

Don't worry 

You must consider the possibility that

While traveling on the bus home

There is a crowd of

Loud, noisy problem children

Distracting your attention, while

Someone else quietly wathces you

Like it or not

You are on display

You cannot always have those window shutters to hide behind

You must learn to balance your

Internalization and externalization

Don't worry about being observed

 

Welcome it!

 

     Malcolm catches himself squirming in his seat a second time because he was only getting one word answers from Larry Brite.  Malcolm was feeling off-course.  He'd never win another Pulitzer Prize on this rate.  He had to shift into another gear in order to open up is infamous guest.   Next question?