Friday, June 18, 2004

Gaily bedight
A Gallant Knight
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had Journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of Eldorado.

But he grew old-
This knight so bold-
And o'er his heart a shadow
Fell, as found
No spot of ground
That looked like Eldorado.

And, as his strength
Failed him at length,
He met a pilgrim shadow-
"Shadow," said he-
"Where can it be-
This land of Eldorado?"

"Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down in the Valley of Shadow,
Ride, boldly, ride,"
The shade replied-
"If you seek Eldorado."

-Eldorado, E.A.P.




Four days... are you ready for it?

Monday, June 14, 2004

Shifting my point of view.
Sometimes, every once in a while, I need to shift my point of view.
Whether it is the way I look at the world, a habit, an art work, or an individual.
What needs shifted?
The world perhaps? Or maybe a habit of mine that isn't quite becoming (I have many of those)?
A work of art, if any my own works are the ones that need shifted.
Individual?
The problem is I can recognize the need shift, but there is nothing one can do to force the shift.
O that isn't to say one can't change, but gradually changing one's point of view, either through study, or behavior modification doesn't trully shift anything.
A true shift is sudden, jarring. Makes you completely reevalute the thing that you had ideas on. A true shift is something that either happens suddenly, or at the end of a very long gradual shift.

Soon maybe... or maybe not.

I need a shift.