"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
~ Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms
~ Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms
"Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey sequence of bumping into's and tumblings apart."
~ Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her FeetTuesday, February 16, 2010
Divine Milieu...Pink Floyd - Coming Back To Life...For Mary...
"...I took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew the moment had arrived
For killing the past and coming back to life
I took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew the waiting had begun
And headed straight…into the shining sun..."
For some reason (unknown to me) the title of this Pink Floyd song kept rolling around in my head, "Coming Back To Life" - maybe becasue at times I am getting fleeting glimpses of what "Coming Back To Life" is, or feels like? Not sure. The lines above made me think of my friend Mary back in Canada and myself the last few days in particular. Great song, it is speaking to me tonight - I hope that it releases something in you as well that lets you become aware that,"...the moment had arrived, for killing the past and coming back to life..."
Here are all the lyrics:
Where were you when I was burned and broken
While the days slipped by from my window watching
Where were you when I was hurt and helpless
Because the things you say and the things you do surround me
While you were hanging yourself on someone else's words
Dying to believe in what you heard
I was staring straight into the shining sun
Lost in thought and lost in time
While the seeds of lifeand the seeds of change were planted
Outside the rain fell dark and slow
While I pondered on this dangerous but irresistible pastime
I took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew the moment had arrived
For killing the past and coming back to life
I took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew the waiting had begun
And headed straight…into the shining sun
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