A Small Reflection.
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The Good Ship Project
10 in 10 (11-20)
11. Where is the empty
cup that once touched God’s lips?
Lost in a damn hole.
12. Let yourself go, float.
Feel the water swallow you,
feel the river go.
“ I beg the reader not to go in search of messages. It is a term that I
detest because it distresses me greatly, for it forces on me clothes
that are not mine, which in fact belong to a human type that I
distrust; the prophet, the soothsayer, the seer. I am none of these;
I’m a normal man with a good memory who fell into a maelstrom and got
out of it more by luck than by virtue, and who from that time on has
preserved a certain curiosity about maelstroms large and small,
metaphorical and actual. ”
Primo Levi
10 in 10 (1-10)
Gonna try something new. 10 short poems written in 10 minutes. I’ve been doing it 3 times a week. Surely not the best, but not exactly the worst. Clearly these are modeled after haikus, but counting syllables on the fly is difficult.
1. The face of the wolf
stares long at the heart of
an enemy that’s dying.
2. The coffee is burnt
before it is ever sold to you.
Bitter before hand.
Heroism
Several weeks ago while talking with one of my students on the phone she told me that she thought there were no more heroes in the world. At the time I was only struck by the rather poignant sadness of the statement. Over time, and in conjunction with other events and conversations, this has come up again and again. Not just with my students but with those around me as well.
I’ve found myself spending quite a bit of time thinking about this idea and my response comes in two parts.
1.
The first is that she was wrong. Our world is still full of heroes. Everyday people do heroic thing even as the cancer of the bystander effect continues to spread through our culture. Some heroes are the big obvious heroes. Firefighters run into burning buildings, police officers dedicate their days to fighting an ever uphill battle against crime, soldiers wait in the sands, jungles, and mountains of foreign countries to fight an enemy they cannot even always see, doctors reach into chests and pump hearts, surgeons mend broken bodies, a driver that stops on the freeway to pull someone from a wrecked car, teachers impart the information, knowledge, and sometimes wisdom we need to make our way through life.
