Do you know anyone who won’t shut up about it when they are right, no matter how unimportant it is? Someone who would build a fence in the wilderness just to be on the right side of it?
Posts Tagged ‘confessions’
Have you ever fallen in love with someone who turned out to be nothing like what you expected, and found that it was just perfect? This is the fifth in a series of six installments beginning here: http://secretvespers.com/2008/07/21/pieces-part-1/
Are you better at knowing other people than at knowing yourself? How much delusion is in what you “know” about others, and how much in what you “know” about yourself?
The image in this installment is derived from one connected with a movement called Anonymous. They are holding demonstrations this weekend. Has anonymity ever made you more honest, or made someone more honest with you? Have you lived somewhere no one knew you? Is anonymity good for freedom of information and expression?
What is so great about need that makes it need? It is impossible to say sometimes which one needs the other more, the addict or the addiction, or which needed the other first.
Artists are not the only ones to invent personal languages and mythologies. The text of this installment is taken from the start of a poem in my Bellwethers series, Noctilucent. It also appears in the zine with the dandelion lady on the cover, and you can get a copy of it if you email me.
One extreme back to the other: they come thinking they want this. They don’t. Have you ever seen it happen?