Gillian Welch - Revelator: youtube.com/watch?v=r4LdjEObjGo
I've been thinking of time lately. Think of how a plane sounds when it passes overhead; it's an arching sound that starts low, gets loudest in the center and dies out in the same amount of time as it built. If one person stands at point A and another a mile away at point B and the plane passes directly overhead both people, they hear the sound differently. Sound is dependent on time and space, though time and space aren't separate entities but one in the same; time-space.
I tried to move to Montreal at the beginning of this summer but it didn't work. When I moved to Toronto near 3 years ago I had the option of Toronto or Montreal, I went with Toronto because I had some family here I could stay with while I got my bearings. And I've been here lovingly since. I've acquired a great family and community in this time. However, I am restless and thought I'd give Montreal a try, it sent me right back to Toronto in less than a week for I missed some too much, felt no desire to start fresh after all, yet. However, I think that had I chose Montreal years ago I would have found myself in the reciprocal situation; I would have gathered a great community in Montreal, got restless, tried Toronto and failed then went right back to Montreal. It was all one split decision that has led me to here. I lament Montreal but it's still a great love of mine, and I may make it still.
And I recently read an article on Sammy Davis Jr, how he for a period joined the Church of Satan. People who knew him said that wasn't uncharacteristic as Sammy Davis Jr loved experiencing anything to do with life, that he never turned down an experience despite what consequences may occur. And isn't that why we have life? One day time won't exist and what will it matter that one man among the countless men that have existed followed the Church of Satan for a couple years? What will any of us matter when time is inconsequential?
This is not to espouse a philosophy of indifference, an excuse for any action whatever, merely a consideration that we're meant to experience life in every form.
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