Friday, March 25, 2011



I've really been revisiting the past lately. In a very positive way.
I feel as though I am finally developing a few old rolls of film that
I've kept in the back of my drawer; that I've kept forgetting to deal with.
Synthesizing . Making sense of it all.

Walt Whitman has been very enlightening to me lately

Song of the Open Road
1

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,
Healthy, free, the world before me,
The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.

Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune,
Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,
Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,
Strong and content I travel the open road.

The earth, that is sufficient,
I do not want the constellations any nearer,
I know they are very well where they are,
I know they suffice for those who belong to them.

(Still here I carry my old delicious burdens,
I carry them, men and women, I carry them with me wherever I go,
I swear it is impossible for me to get rid of them,
I am fill'd with them, and I will fill them in return.)

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