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yesterday, 9000 feet above the barnacles, standing at the top of "the wall" at kirkwood, i looked upon nearly limitless, snowy beauty. the line from american_beauty about not being able to take so much beauty came to mind. we don't deserve it.
a neighbor in beijing told about how if you put a grasshopper under something it will keep hitting against the top. once you remove the barrier it will only jump to the height of the former obstruction.
why is it so hard to simply be with the beauty?
if you're constantly pissed off at how stupid the world is, how people are, as i often am, it's difficult to be grateful for the wonder and brilliance that spills from every crack.
here, though, my point is about blather. i almost feel guilty taking part. the emotion, intellect, and otherworldly humor that everyone here puts forth is ... well_there_is_no_word_for_that (at least not in any language other than german). incidentally, i get the same feeling at burning_man.
i'm guessing that many of the contributors to the sapphire_cesspool feel they are only letting loose the results of a few too many nibbles on the exlax chocolate bar. regardless of effort or intention, though, i am awestruck by the summation created. rather than, at the risk of exclusion, list the names of the brilliant, i will simply put forth one example: frAnk.
our resident man_on_the_street clearly puts a great deal of time and energy into the award-winning innerviews series. think about it.
but frAnk is just one of a sampan full of tasty, exotic produce options here in the aqueous blue world market. EVERYONE contributes and makes this insanity the beast that it is.
so, swine that i am, i chew on the pearls and a faint twinge in the back of my measly little bovine mind says: these were intended for something else--OINK.
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