Comments on: Otherwise, and almost otherwise, but not yet http://mindspinner.net/wordpress/archives/65/otherwise-and-almost-otherwise-but-not-yet/ If you find yourself here, hello. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:19:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: ehj2 http://mindspinner.net/wordpress/archives/65/otherwise-and-almost-otherwise-but-not-yet/#comment-39 Wed, 26 Oct 2005 01:03:30 +0000 http://mindspinner.net/wordpress/archives/65/otherwise-and-almost-otherwise-but-not-yet/#comment-39 there are so many poignant threads perfectly intertwined and reflected in these flawless paragraphs we easily envision the vast tapestry of a rich universe ... the metaphor that occurs to me is of another reflection the entirety of a carefully tended garden held with perfect fidelity in the lens of a single droplet of water balanced on the opening leaf of a fragile rose at the still point of Everything ... one thread draws me ineluctably to a memory i haven't visited enough ... as a teenager of napping comfortably utterly at home with some frequency curled up in a big leather chair on the empty second floor of the fort meyer library (yes, the fort connected to arlington cemetery) and being awakened always stunned into awakening by the five pm cannon that signaled the opening note of Taps ... there are so many poignant threads
perfectly intertwined
and reflected
in these flawless paragraphs
we easily envision
the vast tapestry of a rich universe …

the metaphor that occurs to me
is of another reflection
the entirety of a carefully tended garden
held with perfect fidelity
in the lens of a single droplet of water
balanced on the opening leaf
of a fragile rose
at the still point
of Everything …

one thread draws me
ineluctably
to a memory i haven’t visited enough …

as a teenager
of napping comfortably
utterly at home
with some frequency
curled up in a big leather chair
on the empty second floor
of the fort meyer library
(yes, the fort connected to arlington cemetery)
and being awakened
always stunned into awakening
by the five pm cannon
that signaled the opening note
of Taps …

]]> by: Searchie http://mindspinner.net/wordpress/archives/65/otherwise-and-almost-otherwise-but-not-yet/#comment-38 Sun, 23 Oct 2005 22:40:29 +0000 http://mindspinner.net/wordpress/archives/65/otherwise-and-almost-otherwise-but-not-yet/#comment-38 Thank you for this. It's lovely and gives me hope that one day I, too, may reach "otherwise." Just beautiful. Thank you for this. It’s lovely and gives me hope that one day I, too, may reach “otherwise.”

Just beautiful.

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