Natural Infinite Yes

i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes


(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)


how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any–lifted from the no
of all nothing–human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?


(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)


---e.e. cummings, i thank You God for this most amazing

Instructions for living a Life.

Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it. 

 

-Mary Oliver, Sometimes

What This Song Is For

This song is for clapping and spinning.


This song is for singing if you have too much money.


This song is for singing if you don't have enough money.


This song is for singing if you have too much love.


This song is for singing if you don't have enough love.


This song is for singing if you ran out of jam.


This song is for singing if someone just gave you jam.


This song is for singing to commemorate jam in the nick of time.


This song is to remember what you forgot yesterday.


This song is to remind you if you forget it tomorrow. 


This song is for when you realize you did the right thing.


This song is for when you realize you made a mistake.


This song is for when you think ohhh nooooo.


This song is for when you think aw hell yeah.

What This Song Is About

This song is about communism.


This song is about happiness.


This song is about Chinese propaganda.


This song is about an oily complexion.


This song is about people.


This song is about a band who sings sad songs.


This song is about monsters. 


This song is about monsters being ironic.


This song, when piped into your DMV, says:


Do not dance.  Do not dance.  Do not. 


NEXT!

Field of Dreams

I love love loved this article by Martin Rogers about the US soccer player who scored the game winning goal last night.


He dreamed it!

As dreams go, the one John Brooks had on Saturday night was pretty darn improbable. Brooks, a back-up central defender who wasn’t expected to see playing time in this World Cup and who rarely ventures out of his own half of the field, dreamed that he would come on as substitute and score the winning goal against Ghana.

On Monday night, somehow, against all odds and with the United States on the ropes, that is exactly what he did.

At 6-foot-4, the German-born 21-year-old has height on his side, but even so, you could scarcely have picked a more unlikely goalscorer to make the critical blow on a night of remarkable drama such as this. 

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         photo by Brian Snyder

Humans

Humans are inescapable storytellers, and we can hold many stories at the same time.  The elasticity of the human mind not only is capable of this but seems to welcome the chance.


--Marc Lesser

the 11th commandment