Marsha, Coming from an anarchisitic introvert it means all the more to me. Thanks.
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 12:42 PM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > John, > > > Yes, goodie, it's magical, but tell me again why the sky is blue, Daddy? > > > ------------- (13 dashes) > > > I have a spider tattooed on the back of my neck. It is there to weave the > thread of communication. I had always thought it was to sing Her song, but > surely it must be to hear the woven threads of others, like your beautiful > little stories. Thank you. > > > Marsha > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Carl > Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 2:56 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MD] Uncertainty > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:26 PM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > I like spiders... > > > > > > > > Ok that reminds me of a story. A story with a moment hanging by a thread > and the thread was a spider's web tendril, woven by a damaged spider. > Damaged but alive. > > The spider's plight was witnessed by a little girl, with her dad, at the > dump. > > I guess I'm gonna tell you the story because it's been in my head to give > to > you. I'd like to plop the book it comes from in front of you and make you > read it for yourself in the author's own excellent words. But I can't do > that. All I can do with your eyeballs is try and lure them onward with > words. > > so sit down and shut up. You wanna hear the story or not? It's called, > The > Garbage Man's Daughter. > > The story as I heard it was told through the viewpoint of a young woman. A > bit troubled. Worried somehow, that things went amiss and she's writing a > letter to her father, going back to where she felt they went wrong. Where > they took a wrong turn from understanding each other. > > She starts by describing her nature as fact-oriented. Every evening, as > she > grew, she spent in front of the tv, absorbing the facts of her world from > Dan Rather. She got kinda gloomy after a while. > > She never believed in Santa Claus. She called her parents by their first > names and announced, "Bill, Wanda, I don't want you to write "From Santa > Claus" on my presents anymore. Santa doesn't exist. > > She also didn't want any such things as pretend dolls, or toys that were > imitations of things. She wanted microscopes, a gyroscope. She'd sit in > front of the tv, play with her gyroscope, contemplating the way a planet > spins, and absorb the facts as presented by Dan Rather. > > She pondered the idiocy of the whole Santa Claus - Tooth Fairy mythos. Why > would adults make up fairy tale characters to take the credit for the good > things they do? Why not rather invent mythical creatures to cover up > embarrassing moments instead? "oops, it looks like I've been struck by > that > nasty fart fairy again, the wicked little beast." > > But in her extreme empirical devotion to fact, she goes a bit too far. She > hears her folks talking about the garbage man and assumes him to be another > one of those inventions to cover up the fact that adults have to take out > the garbage in life. > > Only this one seems kinda cool to her. A character with a little pizzaz. > She pictures him, big belly, cigar, curly hairs poking through the top of > his long-john tops. She's actually pleased that the "oldsters" have a > spark > of creativity in them after all, after all that other blatantly > manipulative, "Be a good girl or Santa won't bring you any presents" crap > or the equally offensive "Nice girls go to heaven". > > Jesus, Santa Claus, the tooth fairy, the easter bunny? Boring. But the > Garbage Man, he strikes her fancy. > > And then, one early morning, when she happens to be up for some reason... > > She hears out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, > > She springs to the window to see what is the matter > > And what to her wondering eyes did appear, > > A man in coveralls with a garbage can coming out from the rear. > > > All of a sudden, the thought that the Garbage Man is actually real shakes > her empirically built universe of cold hard fact to its core. She finds > faith. She constructs a world where the Garbage Man lives - at the Dump! > In a teetering shack where his many children scramble through the crap > looking for the good stuff. > > It makes her mad that his children have to live in squalor. It doesn't > seem > fair. Are all the other fairy tale creatures slaves as well? Maybe some > fiendish intelligence is MAKING Santa live in the cold North Pole and maybe > the tooth fairy doesn't like changing good money for germy teeth. It sure > makes sense that Jesus didn't want to be crucified. Who would? What kinda > mean intelligence is running this show? > > She begins to make little offerings of good clean food and nice clothes in > the garbage. She worries that it seems like the Garbage Man just mixes up > her stuff with all the other messy garbage in the back of the truck, but > figures it must be one of those magic things like Santa being able to visit > all the homes in the world in one night. A soul finds faith and makes > offerings, the old pattern arises. > > Until, after a while, her parents noticing the disappearance of food and > clothing from the house, start to cross examine her and through their > questions, she begins to realize the mistake she has made. The final blow > comes when her dad takes her to the dump and she sees the fact of the > enormity of the place and the enormity of her mistake. A deep depression > starts to step in, but her attention is distracted by the weavings of a > damaged spider, and the magic that is life enters her mind and helps to > heal > her. One little spider. > > The mind makes its own magic, whole worlds out of the slenderest of > threads. > That's a good thing. > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
