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Daughter of Godcast
Episode 105
Arc
Are you out there? Season Three still, Daughter of Godcast Summer Vacation, and this is Episode 105, Arc. My laptop’s dictionary has this to say about vacation: “An extended period of recreation, especially one spent away from home or in traveling.”
Here I am on the iMac, at home, catching up on bookkeeping. Running the numbers, accounting with QuickBooks. Am I really on vacation?
No, I’m not. Because vacations are finite, an extended period is not the same as forever. For artists, life is creation and re-creation… or recreation. I deliberately re-create (recreate) myself as an incarnation of rapture, adventure, intrigue. Even QuickBooks is fun.
Naming the third season Summer Vacation is an homage to kidhood, when vacations were a thing, a delicious forgetting of all the claptrap and contradictions of convention, clearing away the clutter of religious, civil, and cultural indoctrination. Back when Shri Fugi Spilt’s first strong desires were inspired — for freedom, discovery, excellence. For an end to alien aspirations and agendas, for room to bloom. Even chains are fun, because eventually we get to throw them off.
When we throw off our chains, vacations are no longer relevant. Play is our always, Lila, life.
The Signals from a Nearby Now had a few things to say about vacations, possibly from a post-chain-throwing-off perspective.
[snip]
there were rivers of rushing metal
sometimes still, sometimes flowing
and colored blinky lights
told the metal when to stop or get going
•
here’s the craziest quirk
boggles the imagination
they were always doing works
so they could get vacations
•
not sure what works were
she tried to explain
as if in your pants, a bur
that gives a scratchy pain
every step you take
a wincing face you make
•
I guess vacations were good
a week of doing nothing
except tipsing drinks, festivating foods
and for the grownups, sexy loving
•
they went to renty huts
that anyone could stay in
with renty vacation beds
that anyone could lay in
•
not like sleeping
w / 100 unknown others
cause all vacations peeps
were spirit sisters and brothers
sharing magic style
frequent flyer miles
https://dog.movie/2016/10/15/signals-from-a-nearby-now/
Meanwhile back in the now, Summer Vacations persist, so that must mean kids are still being steered clear of their heart’s desire. Coming back to who we are is inevitable, and perhaps a bit of chafing makes the bliss following so much sweeter.
MLK Jr. likely borrowed “the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice” from the American transcendentalist Theodore Parker, who published a slew of sermons before the Civil War. What the heck is American transcendentalism, you might ask. I certainly did.
From the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, here’s an excerpt on the entry for AT:
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By Uncle JoeEpisode 105
Arc
Are you out there? Season Three still, Daughter of Godcast Summer Vacation, and this is Episode 105, Arc. My laptop’s dictionary has this to say about vacation: “An extended period of recreation, especially one spent away from home or in traveling.”
Here I am on the iMac, at home, catching up on bookkeeping. Running the numbers, accounting with QuickBooks. Am I really on vacation?
No, I’m not. Because vacations are finite, an extended period is not the same as forever. For artists, life is creation and re-creation… or recreation. I deliberately re-create (recreate) myself as an incarnation of rapture, adventure, intrigue. Even QuickBooks is fun.
Naming the third season Summer Vacation is an homage to kidhood, when vacations were a thing, a delicious forgetting of all the claptrap and contradictions of convention, clearing away the clutter of religious, civil, and cultural indoctrination. Back when Shri Fugi Spilt’s first strong desires were inspired — for freedom, discovery, excellence. For an end to alien aspirations and agendas, for room to bloom. Even chains are fun, because eventually we get to throw them off.
When we throw off our chains, vacations are no longer relevant. Play is our always, Lila, life.
The Signals from a Nearby Now had a few things to say about vacations, possibly from a post-chain-throwing-off perspective.
[snip]
there were rivers of rushing metal
sometimes still, sometimes flowing
and colored blinky lights
told the metal when to stop or get going
•
here’s the craziest quirk
boggles the imagination
they were always doing works
so they could get vacations
•
not sure what works were
she tried to explain
as if in your pants, a bur
that gives a scratchy pain
every step you take
a wincing face you make
•
I guess vacations were good
a week of doing nothing
except tipsing drinks, festivating foods
and for the grownups, sexy loving
•
they went to renty huts
that anyone could stay in
with renty vacation beds
that anyone could lay in
•
not like sleeping
w / 100 unknown others
cause all vacations peeps
were spirit sisters and brothers
sharing magic style
frequent flyer miles
https://dog.movie/2016/10/15/signals-from-a-nearby-now/
Meanwhile back in the now, Summer Vacations persist, so that must mean kids are still being steered clear of their heart’s desire. Coming back to who we are is inevitable, and perhaps a bit of chafing makes the bliss following so much sweeter.
MLK Jr. likely borrowed “the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice” from the American transcendentalist Theodore Parker, who published a slew of sermons before the Civil War. What the heck is American transcendentalism, you might ask. I certainly did.
From the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, here’s an excerpt on the entry for AT: