Smelling The Flowers
Jan. 31st, 2025 07:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo Listening to Leon Redbone- old time tunes sung in a manner so laid back it's on the verge of dreamland.
Listening to Alan Watts: My words not his, but the same idea. We fall for the promise of jam tomorrow and miss all the fun to be had today. Our politicians promise growth. The British Chancellor has just been doing it. And where has all the promised growth of the past taken us exactly? Are we happier in ourselves? Once again she revives the scheme for a third runway at Heathrow. More growth- growth for the sake of growth, tarmacing over the fields where we might otherwise be wandering hand in hand, smelling the flowers.
The sun showed up yesterday so I walked to the Meeting House, taking the route along promenade.
And at the Meeting House we were talking about how the British have a greater reservoir of sexual slang to draw on than Americans do. This wasn't cultural supremacism (well, not really) and it was an American leading the discussion. I'm not sure everybody was happy about hearing words like "fuck" and "cocksucker" spoken within the hallowed precincts. But why not? Why not?
Listening to Alan Watts: My words not his, but the same idea. We fall for the promise of jam tomorrow and miss all the fun to be had today. Our politicians promise growth. The British Chancellor has just been doing it. And where has all the promised growth of the past taken us exactly? Are we happier in ourselves? Once again she revives the scheme for a third runway at Heathrow. More growth- growth for the sake of growth, tarmacing over the fields where we might otherwise be wandering hand in hand, smelling the flowers.
The sun showed up yesterday so I walked to the Meeting House, taking the route along promenade.
And at the Meeting House we were talking about how the British have a greater reservoir of sexual slang to draw on than Americans do. This wasn't cultural supremacism (well, not really) and it was an American leading the discussion. I'm not sure everybody was happy about hearing words like "fuck" and "cocksucker" spoken within the hallowed precincts. But why not? Why not?
