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There are symbolic gestures all around us--the world full of "signs"-- some intentional and others waiting to be opened by our inner dialogue with ideas, memories, culture and education.
So much of what goes on in us is private dialogue. The nail above means different things to anyone; to a culture, a religion, depending on what's layered inside the mind and heart. There are personal and public ideas in us about everything.
I stepped on three nails in one day while exploring the woods with my brother when I was about 7. If I feel my way back into that moment the nail goes through the rubber soul of my sneaker and into my flesh. I don't always indulge in traveling into memories but with concentration one can almost "be" there again. Vividly, like a photograph that feels and thinks from that age. Can you spell what happens next ... Tetnus shot?
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Memory is divine. The smallest gesture of one stranger moving past the lens of our senses (a tone of voice, a specific smell, an elegant motion of hand or neck; a color or fabric against the skin, slants of light--anything can suddenly open up rooms of powerful psychic content. So much art comes out of there.
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Link to I Met the Walrus: John Lennon interview and visual. A sort of Peace talk.
Really don't know where I got this link, but "knowing how way leads on to way"
as the poet Robert Frost says ... I should never find the path back
to find or figure it out to say -- all your blogs seem alive,
a tangled shifting window display of light and possible connection.
You have to be a Jazz musician to figure it all out. :)
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Peace to all.
Link to Tumbleword's Blogger site... which isn't so sloggy sometimes at Blog. :0
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I just love the nail and wood photos! Well, and the old scoreboard in the trees, too, connects with my experiences. It's the visual beauty of the first two I like. As to your stepping on nails in the woods, my experience was just a few years ago stepping down suddenly on a nail in a stud in a truck that I was loading with recyling stuff. I knew all the nails were there and I did it anyway. Nothing bad happened but when I went for a tetnus shot the doc said the problem might be all the aenerobic, very nasty germs living in the sneaker soles. She gave me a hard time about there being no accidents and shot my foot with some hurtful stuff. I also soaked my foot as often as she told me I had to for days! I'm going to the rest of your blog now. Edna (Comment this)